The Business End
Maurice Riordan, Poetry Editor
Phillis Levin
On Betrayal
That Morning
Sarah Hannah
Westwood Lodge, 1980–1990
First Singing Lesson Ever, at Forty
Greenbrier (Smilax rotundifolia)
Indian Pipe (Monotropa uniflora)
Colette Bryce
The Residents
A Spider
On Not Finding the Angelry
Todd Hearon
Last Look
Susan Wicks
Gods
Pistachios
Eva Salzman
Theme and Variations
Philip Gross
Designs for the Water Garden
Severn Song
Jane Duran
Boatland
Morphology
Padraig Rooney
The Valley
Rome, Night
The Sand School
Stephen Sandy
Jerome
The Field Glasses
Tony Williams
Reproductive Behaviour of the Dark
The Fence
Lydia Macpherson
Armadillos
Charles Bennett
Thaw
Pond Life
Kathryn Simmonds
The World Won’t Miss You for a While
Talking to Yourself
Shoestring Dialogues
John Goodby
The First Night
Paul Batchelor
The Butcher’s Daughter
Moniza Alvi
The Ride
King Agenor
Jo Shapcott
Competition 2007 Judge’s
Report
Christine Webb: first prize
Seven Weeks
Mick Wood: second prize
Syllable
Caroline Bird: third prize
Wild Flowers
Whispers of Heavenly Death
DM Black salutes Celan
and Kinnell
Setting out on the Poetic Path
David Constantine
examines three contrasting first collections from Melanie Challenger,
Annie Freud and Sharon Morris
A London School
Carol Rumens on
two show-case anthologies
New Premisses Required
WN Herbert considers the constancy of pleasure in Alan Gillis, Fiona Sampson
and Lynne Wycherley
Speaking from Landscape
Katy Evans-Bush delves into contrasting Modernisms in Frances Presley
and WS Merwin
The First XI
Kate Bingham gathers the best of this year’s pamphlets
A New Planet Swims into our Ken
Kathryn Maris talks to Ruth Borthwick about an event on the poetry horizon
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