A Step Away From Them
Maurice Riordan, Poetry Editor

MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS
Origin of Species
Hotel Intercontinental
To the Lord Belongs the Earth and All It Contains
Momento Mori

JEFFREY HARRISON
Vision
Flag
The Same River
Taking a Leak

ROS BARBER
Girls' High Empties
The Weight of Ink
Losing It
 
SEAN O'BRIEN
Serious Chairs
Drains
Three Lighthouses
 
JUDITH LAL
Receptacle for August
Such a Thing as Collective Memory

JASON GURIEL
Getting Wet
Dearest

JULIA COPUS
Impossible as It Seems
This Is the Poem in which I Have not Left You

RUTH O'CALLAGHAN
Chronicle

MARILYN HACKER
Blasons

GREG DELANTY
from The Greek Anthology, Book XVII
The First Story
Childhood
At Last Poetry Makes Something Happen
Avaunt

DAVID HARSENT
Spatchcock

FRANCES LEVISTON
The Fortune-teller

RICHARD TILLINGHAST
Ten
There Is a Room I Never Go Into

ROBERT SAXTON
Strange Weather

TARA BERGIN
This Is Yarrow

PASCALE PETIT
Chandelier-tree
Uprooted Redwood
What the Water Gave Me

WORDS ARE NOT THE END OF THOUGHT BUT WHERE IT BEGINS
George Szirtes admires new books by Jane Hirshfield, Kathryn Maris and translations of Rilke by Martyn Crucefix

SURPRISING NEW VOICES
WNHerbert finds delight in first collections by Tiffany Atkinson, Tishani Doshi and Roger Moulson

SOME SIMILARITIES TO CAROL ANN DUFFY, WENDY COPE, MATTHEW SWEENEY, JANE DRAYCOTT AND PHILIP LARKIN
Antony Dunn reads new collections by Kate Bingham, Ruth Fainlight and Paul Farley

ON WRITING AND READING TRANSLATIONS
David Constantine on translations of Jacques Reda, Tomas Transtromer and Carlos Reyes-Manzo

SINEWY DICTION AND TECHNICAL SKILL
Carol Rumens says why Marilyn Hacker is a major poet

POERTY WARS IN 2007?
Kathryn Maris interviews Poetry Society Chair Anne-Marie Fyfe

WHEN LAPSES OF TASTE ARE ATTRACTIVE
Amy Wack reads new books by Vona Groarke, Philip Fried and Julian Turner

AFFINITIES WITH NATURE
Meryl Pugh peruses poems by Vicki Feaver, Jeffrey Harrison and Les Murray