Billy Collins
Turgenev
Pond

Maurice Riordan
Stars and Jasmine
In Fever
Mansions Polish

Yang Lian
Another Decade, Hudson River

Carol Rumens
Pastoral among the Leonids
Lullaby and Warning
The Baltic Swan

Fiona Sampson
The Secret Flowers

Rhian Gallagher
The Annunciation Tintoretto

Elaine Feinstein
A Visit
Hands

Carole Satyamurti
Chesil Beach

Meryl Pugh
Listening to Allegri’s Miserere

Ruth Fainlight
A New Book
The Fourth Dimension

Marina Boroditskaya
A Knife In Your Back
Holy Family
Once They Asked Me
Like A Potato

Judi Benson
Checking In Down The London

Robert Minhinnick
Photographing an Orchid

Christopher Meredith
the very temple

Guy Goffette
From Charlestown Blues
Letter to the unknown woman
across the street II
Flesh-back
Passing on the torch
Farewell, châteaux

Moniza Alvi
For My Daughter
Ghosts
So Much Goes On
Half-and-Half

John Kinsella
Map: land subjected to inundation

Poetry of Meticulous Eloquence
D. M. Black reads new books by Marilyn Hacker
and Mary Baine Campbell

Poems that make another myth
David Constantine explores first collections by Martha Kapos and Sarah Wardle

Billy Collins looking Keatsian
Kathryn Maris interviews the US Poet Laureate

All the tricks of a Master
Carol Rumens contrasts poetry from Northern Ireland by Paul Muldoon, Medbh McGuckian and
Ciaran Carson

The compactness of a poem
Sean O’Brien’s admiration for Elizabeth Cook’s Achilles

Obsessive music on a ride
Susan Mitchell analyses new work by ‘the master
of the prose poem’, Stephen Berg

Pitch and yaw
Martyn Crucefix reckons with collections by
Neil Curry, E. A. Markham, Carolyn Forché
and Jane Kirwan

A POET TO KNOW BETTER:
Jorge Guillén
Cola Franzen profiles the distinguished Spanish poet

Befriended by poetry pamphlets
Roddy Lumsden sorts through shorter collections
poetry on the south bank

Special report by Ruth Borthwick
poetry library’s 50th birthday

Librarian Simon Smith on the Library’s mission

all about cats night out
Angela Dove on giving women poets a better break