The Poetry Society Celebrating our centenary

Fortunate Traveller

(Volume 76, No 3, October 1986)

Editor

Peter Forbes

Fortunate Travellers

Douglas Dunn on Joseph Brodsky's essays; Joseph Brodsky: Sextet

Peter Scupham on Anthony Hecht's poetry; Anthony Hecht: Two poems

Peter Forbes on Derek Walcott's Collected Poems; Derek Walcott: Two poems from Midsummer

Andrew Waterman: Transience

Paul Hyland Yelala: White Words, White Water - travels in Zaire

Travel: poems and prose; Tony Roberts, U.A. Fanthorpe, Elizabeth Garrett, Glyn Maxwell, Hugo Williams, David Constantine, Sylvia Kantaris, Lawrence Sail, Philip Gross, Carol Rumens, John Mole, Dannie Abse, Carole Satyarmurti, Elizabeth Bartlett, Denis Doyle

Peter Levi reviews Kevin Crossley-Holland's Oxford Book of Travel Verse

Reviews

William Scammell on The Faber Book of Political Verse, Anne Stevenson on Geoffrey Hill

Poems: Michael Henry, Hilary Llewellyn Williams

Lawrence Sail on new Hutchinson poetry, J.P. Ward on thre Australian poets, Carol Ann Duffy on U.A. Fanthorpe's Selected Poems, Bernard O'Donoghue on two Irish Anthologies, JOhn Loveday on Geoffrey Grigson, John Greening on three Peterloo poets

Swedish Festival: poems by Tomas Transtromer and Eva Strom

Peter Scupham: Alert: Derby 1941

George Szirtes on Jaroslav Seifert, Carol Rumens on Letters 1926: Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, Rilke, and Irina Ratushinskaya, Philip Gross on Peter Scupham

The Performance Page: Matt Holland on the Arts for the Earth Extravaganza

Lawrence Sail: Fable

Endstops

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