EDITORIAL
 

The eye’s perfume
Pascale Petit, Poetry Editor

   
  POEMS
 

Peter Redgrove
Who Is the Higher Penis Here?
The Harper

Les Murray
The Nostril Songs

Daljit Nagra
Singh Song
Darling & Me

Penelope Shuttle
Used To Be
Instead Of Him
This Page

Rosemary Harris
Wolfing
Lullaby
Residential Unit

Robert Minhinnick
The Minotaur

Ruth Fainlight
Lovely Hands

Susan Wicks
Children Hiding
Learning to Dance
Nude with Peacock Feathers

Colette Bryce
Gallery
The Smoke

Krisztina Tóth
After a Mouse

Péter Rácz
Proper

Mónika Mesterházi
On the Move

Anna T. Szabó
From Winter Diary
Across the Rails

Tim Liardet
The Sound Turned Down on
Hurricane George
Visions of the Jet-lagged

Robin Behn
Inventory at Dusk

Anne Rouse
Shadow Book

Mimi Khalvati
Competition 2004 Judge’s Report

Julia Lewis (1st)
Same Chair Same Window

Pam Hughes (2nd)
Jawbation

Ross Cogan (3rd)
Poggio in Greece

   
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    REVIEWS & FEATURES
   

A PASSION TO CONNECT POETRY TO EVERYTHING
Matthew Sweeney’s admiration for Pablo Neruda

POETRY THAT ABOUNDS IN BEAUTY AND STRANGENESS
Grevel Lindop appraises translations of books by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Radmila Lazic and Tatiana Shcherbina

HYPERKINETICS, PALPABLE SURFACES, LIVID MONOLOGUES
Amy Wack acclaims second collections by
Robert Saxton, Sue Hubbard and Mario Petrucci

HOW RUTH PADEL HIJACKS TENSION FROM SYNCOPATED RHYTHM
Carol Rumens’ analysis of collections by Ruth Padel, Anthony Thwaite, Judith Barrington and Terry Gifford

ISLANDS IN A SEA OF LANGUAGE
Polly Clark explores trade routes for Hungarian
and British poets

POETRY TRANSLATION IS A TOPICAL AND URGENT MATTER
David and Helen Constantine, new editors of Modern Poetry in Translation, tell Fiona Sampson of their plans

A POEM IRONIZES ITSELF EVEN WHILE COMMUNICATING
Martyn Crucefix observes poetry’s uneasy relationship with reality and language in books by John Welch, Frances Presley and Jaan Kaplinski

PAMPHLETS OUT OF PALESTINE, CHERNOBYL, FAIRY TALES, ETC
Daljit Nagra finds seven new pamphlets that are risk-taking, powerful and exciting

ANTHOLOGIES FROM THREE LONDON POETRY INSTITUTIONS
Wayne Burrows on books from the Poetry School,
Apples & Snakes and the Torriano Meeting House

 

   
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    COURSES:
Distance & Internet; Degree/Diploma; Residential; Outside London; In London
RESOURCES:
Organizations; Libraries &
Archives; Websites
WRITING GROUPS:
Outside London; In London
EVENTS, FESTIVALS
& VENUES:

Outside London; In London
POETRY DIARY
   
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