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		EDITORIAL
		Praising the Sow Martha Kapos, Assistant Poetry Editor

		POEMS
		Antoinette Fawcett Betsy Marilyn Hacker Glose Glose John Burnside A Folk Story Three Enquiries Concerning Angels Neil Curry An Invitation David Angel Cantabria Sad-Man Sunrise Guy Goffette O Caravels Stephen Sandy Waxwings A Dance Robin Robertson Fishes and Trees Calcutta, Co. Armagh Basra The Rest of the World Robert Hamberger Trio Herb Robert Ruth Sharman Phuktal Myra Schneider Vision Marcin Swietlicki Around White Precipices Black July Celebrating a Departure Stanley Moss After Rodin's The Clouds The Unicorn Grevel Lindop A Perfume Jane Draycott Sky Man The Fair Miles Mass Observation John Hartley Williams Don’t Touch Anything Rhian Gallagher Angel Robert Saxton Camping on the Moon Chris Beckett Sam Partington, schoolboy brave Immanuel Mifsud The Day of the Dead (in Bratislava) Anniversary Her Long Legs White as Paper Some Leaves from Lahti and Helsinki Sarah Corbett Stained Glass Sophie Nicholls Lastly
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		REVIEWS & FEATURES
		Craftsmanship, comedy, sure-footed aplomb, love songs and plugging further into dark under-whisperings John Lucas revels in the new work of a pan-European poet Ruth Borthwick, Head of Literature and Talks at theSouth Bank Centre, discusses her objectives and plans And she tells Kathryn Maris about literature events during the RFH closure The senses working on intelligence and instinct through language, and moving through depths George Szirtes blissfully reads three poets who are little known here Beginning in delight, ending in wisdom Henry Shukman confesses that reading recent first collections soon after producing his own can be uncomfortably like looking into the mirror Resonating trauma, rhumba and fulfilment D M Black’s appreciation of three distinctive American poets Some lovely nature poemsin two flawed anthologies Kwame Dawes wishes for voices from outside the editors’ worlds When the foundations of the earth shake Penelope Shuttle ponders new collections themed by 9/11 and shadows Putting words to what it is we will become John Kinsella reads well-honed poetry that is stunning in its originality One poet uses sign language and pre-speech babble, another pushes language to its limits for the unknowable Frances Presley on two poets wary of extremely experimental poetry
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