Et In Arcadia Ego
Maurice Riordan, Poetry Editor

HEATHER MCHUGH
Both Sides Snipe at the Holy Ghost
Medium as Meteorologist
Nocebo
 
MATTHEW SWEENEY
Borders
The Ascent
The Sandal
Another Country
 
JACK UNDERWOOD
Codes
Only the Lonely
Out on the Fen they're still Digging

ALICE OSWALD
Dunt

SIMON RICHEY
from Crossings

NICK LAIRD
Leaving the Scene of an Accident

SIMON POMERY
Butcher Boy
Tree Surgery
Goyt

ANTOINETTE FAWCETT
Sandman

CATHERINE SMITH
Lint
The Ewe

ANDREW SANT
Dedication to a Potter Wasp
Knight

PETRA WHITE
On the Bight

PHILIP HANCOCK
The Ledge

JASON SCHNEIDERMAN
Modernism-o
Primogeniture
Physics V: Theology

DAVID WHEATLEY
Two from Artaud
Prayer
Love

CAROLYN JESS-COOKE
Accent

NAOMI FOYLE
Peter Crouch

PAUL BATCHELOR
Pygmalion's Prayer to Venus

SARAH CORBETT
Hearsay
Breaking Horses

SUSAN WICKS
Mobile
In a Wing-Mirror

MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS
Competition 2006 Judge's Report

KATHRYN SIMMONDS (1st Prize)
Sunday at the Skin Launderette

RACHEL CURZON (2nd Prize)
Happy Ending

VICTOR TAPNER (3rd Prize)
Jacqueline Kennedy's Guided Tour of
the White House

BELFAST TRIPTYCH
Marilyn Hacker reads poets who span the generation that has produced an unprecedented flowering and fruition of poetry in Ireland

WHEN A POEM BRINGS DOWN THE HOUSE
Kathryn Maris enjoys the performance poetry capital, Apples & Snakes

THE FIRST ELUSIVE THREADS OF UNMADE SOULS
Martyn Crucefix’s close reading of remarkable collections by John Burnside, Tomaz Salamun and Penelope Shuttle

SUCH A WORLD COMES IN
Elizabeth Cook's pleasure in poems by Jenny Joseph

CARIBBEAN VERSE
EA Markham on a book of 150 poets from four languages

SAMPLING POETRY PAMPHLETS
Wayne Burrows reads a selection of shorter collections

ELECTRIC ARC-LEAPS
Alfred Corn appraises new books by Fyfe, Twichell and Liardet

FINDING THE RIGHT KEY
John Weston peruses a new book by Chinese poet Bei Dao

THERE IS A PLEASURE MADMEN KNOW
Joe Bidder explores first collections by Peter Campbell and Alyson Torns