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		EDITORIAL
		Poetry London Says Farewell to Pascale Petit Martha Kapos, Assistant Poetry Editor

		POEMS
		Paul Farley The Front Mongrel Valerie Mejer From the wave, the shortcut From This Blue Novel Jeneece Bernard Kid Moth E M Test Dead Reckoning Sinéad Morrissey Forty Lengths Raúl Zurita From INRI – The Sea Valeria Melchioretto Sweet and Sour Songs Bernardo Atxaga The Life and Death of Words Eamon Grennan Going Gone Esther Morgan House Rules Imperative Specimen Mimi Khalvati Blinks The Valley Overblown Roses Robert Minhinnick St John’s Sunflowers Sharon Morris Wild as fish Jane Duran The Mat Confluence Vona Groarke The Round House Yang Lian Where the river turns Matthew Sweeney The Snowy Owl Air Show The Path The Race String Fuad Rifka From Diary of a Woodcutter The Scent of the Trees
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		REVIEWS & FEATURES
		Poems of wintry futility, a chill atmosphere and learning about Autumn Sean O’Brien’s close reading of a twelfth, a second and a first collection Ancient, exhilarating poems that sound imagist Yang Lian’s expert appreciation of classical Chinese verse written bythe masters of the T’ang and Sung Dynasties 700 to 1,400 years ago A vanishing of self, souls rent and torn and a builder’s divine instructions Kathryn Maris muses on three remarkable, dissimilar new collections Maurice Riordan is the new Poetry Editor of Poetry London Considered responses to threat and repression Marilyn Hacker admires two poets whose work interrogatesthe choices of conscience in a dangerous time Michael Donaghy 1954–2004 Paul Farley and Andrew Motion think of him A poet of achievement, and one of promise David Miller finds skill, control and grace in one collection, but some bland, lazy language in another The Poetry Library goes virtual Librarian Simon Smith reveals plans for the Library’s closureduring the period of refurbishment of the Royal Festival Hall What happens on the margins of worlds, and how poetry makes something happen Bernard O’Donoghue reviews first collections by two travelled poets Poems are momentarily illuminated, or stare unblinking or are distracted by seeing two otters Antony Dunn’s acute appreciation of three acclaimed collections Poets who deal with life’s tensions and tragedies with sharp irony or stoical melancholy Grevel Lindop’s searching study of two distinguished volume
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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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