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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