The Poetry Society

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Volume 96, No 4, Winter 2006/7

Editor: Fiona Sampson

Poems:

Michael Longley, Call, Horseshoe, Lullaby, Cygnus, Cloudberries
David Harsent, The Hut In Question, from Broken Glass
Eavan Boland, How It Was Once In Our Country
Seán Ó Ríordáin, My Mother's Burial
John Fuller, Pomme
Omar Sabbagh, Vital
Semyon Lipkin, Charred
Ruth Padel, The Peaks, The Troughs, As I Flick Off The Remote In The Gulf I Think Of An Ancient Greek Playwright
Glyn Maxwell, Flags And Candles, Kaspar Hauser
E.A.Markham, The Story Of A Revolution
Alan Brownjohn, Ludbrooke: His Compliment, His Chivalry, His Pride,
His Red, His Physique
John Fuller, The Dance
Krystyna Milobeçdzka, (how to make a star)
David Morley, The Charges On Midsummer Night For The Coventry Mysteries 
Yang Lian, Home
Greg Delanty, The Naming Of Clouds
Jackie Kay, Darling
Alan Jenkins, At The Grave Of Joseph Brodsky
Shi Tao, from Dedicated To The Book Of The Dead
Amanda Aizpuriete, That Would Probably Be Best, Dat Wid Laekly Be Best 
Marie Étienne, from Some Of Them Are Japanese
Alison Brackenbury, On A February Night
Julia Casterton, Goblins
Sean Borodale, Lyrigraph For A Lady Chatting (From Reading To Bath By Train)

Centrefold:

Glyn Maxwell 'Before, Behind, Between, Above, Below': The Poem That Became A Novel That Became A Play
Musarum Sacerdos   An Interview With Michael Longley
Alec Peever   Down To The Letter
Introductions to Back In Print: Ruth Fainlight, Peter Porter, Penelope Shuttle, Jeffrey Wainwright on Geoffrey Hill
C. L. Dallat   Company Of Loners: The Workshop Gen Poets

Reviews:

Adam Thorpe on Michael Longley
Jay Parini on Robertson's Tranströmer and Paterson's Rilke
David Morley on Alan Brownjohn
Steven Matthews on reissued anthologies by Crawford and Muldoon
Todd Swift on Paul Farley
Patrick McGuinness on W.N.Herbert
Paul Batchelor on Lorna Goodison, Philip Levine and Dunya Mikhail
Michael Hulse on Justin Quinn, Andrew McNeillie, Paul Batchelor and Andrew Grieg 
Michael Longley,  The Holly Bush i.m Dorothy Molloy
Patrick Crotty on Dorothy Molloy and Seán Dunne
Graham Hartill on Frances Presley, Gael Turnbull and Elaine Randell
Giles Goodland on Owen Sheers, Vernon Watkins and Dannie Abse
Charlotte Newman on Patrick Lane and Mitsuo Takahashi
Ruth Fainlight The Yellow Plate i.m. Assia Gutman
Margaux Poueymirou briefs on the new biography of Assia Wevil

Endpapers:

Chris Holifield Letter From Tavistock Place
Editorial
Lemn Sissay News From The Beat
Frank Dullaghan, The Royal Academy
Letter to the Editor
Again, Please!
Contributors