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		EDITORIAL
		Pascale Petit New Bearings from The Gulf of Mexico

		POEMS
		E.M. Test Bon Voyage Haul-back Víctor Manuel Mendiola The Bindweed The Hard-boiled Egg Vénus Khoury-Ghata Borderlines Orlando González Esteva From Praise of the Scribble Luis Alberto de Cuenca The Ice Giants Red Sonja The Peasant and the Princess David Constantine Obolus Trilobite in the Wenlock Shales Stroke Hans Magnus Enzensberger For a Sixth Form Reader Also a Half of Life Matthew Hollis Isostasy Nymph Valerie Mejer The measure Untitled Paolo Ruffilli Tunnel Whenever I go Nowhere Jennifer Clement Awakening The Pirate The Ship Bathwater On the Docks Yang Lian Brian Holton Travelling in New Zealand Leeya Mehta The Towers of Silence Philip Fried How I Learned to Dance Hopscotch in the Place des Vosges Gabrielle LeMay Apples & Corn Charles Bennett Levitation Jemma Borg Ghazal Michael Arnold Williams Sixty-Seven Degrees North Adriana Díaz Enciso From Pigeon’s Flight Todd Swift The Great Rose Windows, Chartres Paul Groves A Pony Struck by Lightning
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		REVIEWS & FEATURES
		The world beyond the question Lachlan Mackinnon revels in the sprawling parables of Les Murray Which are the best bookshops for poetry? Polly Clark’s unprecedented appraisal of shops that serve readers and publishers best Aye, a radical and pleasurable diversity W N Herbert finds Scottish poetry is as vibrant as ever KATHLEEN JAMIE Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead, Poems 1980–1994 LIZ LOCHHEAD The Colour of Black & White, Poems 1984–2003 EDWIN MORGAN Cathures DON PATERSON Landing Light Transmutation, sons of dust and busted Buddhas Jane Draycott appraises four strong collections CAROL ANN DUFFY Feminine Gospels EVA SALZMAN One Two II: A Song Book JEREMY HOOKER Adamah SARAH CORBETT The Witch Bag Literature as Cargo Jennifer Clement, Co-Director of the Tampico International Festival of Literature, muses on the Festival’s Anglo-American literary heritage A poet aspiring to Anon in future anthologies? Wayne Burrows enjoys incongruous humour and wilful subversion IAN DUHIG The Lammas Hireling RHIAN GALLAGHER Salt Water Creek DICK DAVIS Belonging JULIA DARLING Sudden Collapses in Public Places A spoonful of Dylan Thomas, a pinch of Edward Lear The ingredients of four first collections intrigue Joe Sheerin Jane Routh Circumnavigation Jacob Polley The Brink Robert Seatter Travelling to the Fish Orchards Matthew Welton The Book of Matthew A poet you may want to know better: Tony Hoagland Henry Shukman’s profile of a poet who’s a master of shifting tones Thin pickings for Francophiles Val Warner reports on new translations of three French poets JACQUES PRÉVERT (Tr. Sarah Lawson) Selected Poems JEAN CASSOU (Tr. Timothy Adès) 33 Sonnets of the Resistance (33 sonnets composés au secret) STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ (Tr. Patrick McGuinness) For Anatole’s Tomb (Pour un tombeau d’Anatole) Unsettling, yes, and uncomfortably excellent too Antony Dunn on three arresting, dissimilar books Andrew Motion (editor) First World War Poems Michael Rosen Carrying the Elephant — A Memoir of Love and Loss Geoffrey Godbert (editor) Freedom to Breathe — Modern Prose Poetry from Baudelaire to Pinter
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