The Poetry Society

  Volume 102, No 3, Autumn 2012

* THIS ISSUE IS SOLD OUT *

“I take my pleasures from where
I will, and no one generation or band of poets has a monopoly on these. Nor, of course, does any single art form, which is why you’ll find notice taken here of cross-overs between poetry and fine art, prose fiction, song-writing and the stage. Poetry cannot, for its own health, stay at home
all day"

Charles Boyle, Guest editor

Editorial

Poems
Dan O’Brien, The War Reporter Paul Watson and Dirty Business, The Poet Runs
John Gohorry, from The Age of Saturn
Sarah Howe, Belonging to the Emperor, Fabulous
James McGonigal, Towards Winter
Hilary Menos, Long Pig
David Wheatley, For Cosimo di Piero
Sinéad Morrissey, Puzzle
Tiffany Atkinson, Phallus Impudicus, (
Chris McCabe, The Alchemist
Michael Hofmann, see something say something
Alice Fulton, After the Angelectomy, from Rondo for Singing Clock
Fred Voss, Soul Washroom     
Gerry Cambridge, Order
Dannie Abse, Talking to Myself
Robin Fulton Macpherson, Hearing the Sea
C.J. Drive, An Interruption
Carrie Etter, My Mother’s Ashes
John Hartley Williams, Still Grieving
Angelina Ayers, Days
Karen McCarthy Woolf, The Museum of Best-Laid Plans
Edward Mackay, The Size of Wales
Patrick Mackie, A Brief And Helpless Treatise On The Subject Of The Heart
David Morley, World’s Eye
Declan Ryan, From Alun Lewis
Judy Kravis, His Heroic Youth
James Sutherland-Smith, Nuptials
Mona Arshi, Ghazal
Andrew Elliott , The Milkman
Robert Stein, Fourteeen Untitled Images, 1919
Candy Neubert, ways to leave
Graham Allison, Leaving Buenos Aires
Naomi Foyle, from Witwalking
Liane Strauss, In the Divorce
Rosie Shepperd, “Don’t take drugs, Allen, get married”
Hannah Lowe, Dance Class
Julia Reckless, Fly Away Home
Richard Scott, Maz
Rory Waterman, The Outings
Pascale Petit, Portrait of My Father as St Julien le Pauvre
Amy Acre, The Ends of the Earth
Miles Burrows , What to Do After the Funeral
Julian Stannard, Lunch with Margot and Tinker
August Kleinzahler, Late Indian Summer, Self-criticism at 3 a.m.
Ben Wilkinson, October, Joie de Vivre
Penelope Shuttle, Hvallator