The Poetry Society Celebrating our centenary

Poetry Among the Arts

(Volume 76, No 4, December 1986)

Editor

Peter Forbes

Poetry Among the Arts

Poetry & Theatre: Bernard O'Donoghue on Tony Harison's Theatre Works, Martyn Crucefix on Yan Tan Tethera; Craig Raine interview, John Bayley on The Electrification of the Soviet Union; John Greening on Alan Brownjohn's translation of Goethe's Torquato Tasso

Poetry & Painting: Charles Tomlinson: The Poet as Painter; two new poems

Video Poetry: Lawrence Sail on the SW Arts/Television South West Project

Poetry & Painting: poems by Carol Ann Duffy, James Greene, James Kirkup, Sue Stewart, Elizabeth Garrett, Lawrence Sail; Rosemary Hill on the Tate anthologies

Poetry & Fiction: John Whitworth on Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate; David Constantine on Jenny Joseph, D.M. Thomas, Grace Nichols, P.J. Kavanagh

Poetry & Jazz: James Simmons The Savoy Sessions; John Mole Pee Wee Russell

Second Look

John Mole and Carol Rumens on the poetry of E.J. Scovell; two new poems by E.J. Scovell

Reviews

Lawrence Sail on Elizabeth Jennings' Collected Poems; Philip Gross on New Chatto Poets, Douglas Houston, David Sutton; David Sutton, Map Maker

Dennis O'Driscoll on John Whitworth; John Whitworth: The Truth about Me and Eddie Cochrane

George Szirtes on Douglas Dunn's Selected Poems; William Scammell on MIchael Hofmann, Stephen Romer, Paul Muldoon

Glyn Maxwell: One Was, Is Now

Carol Rumens on Frances Horovitz, Catherine Byron, Penelope Shuttle, Sylvia Kantaris, Alan Moore, R.A. Maitre, Adrienne Rich; Sylvia Kantaris, The Mortician to His Love

Michael Horovitz on Michele Roberts

Glyn Maxwell: Girl In Films

D.W. Hartnett: The Floret

Simon Rae on Peter Reading's Stet and Required Reading

Douglas Houston: Plas Crug

Martyn Crucefix on Ken Smith, Tony Curtis, George MacBeth

Andrew Waterman: The Unicorn

The Performance Page: Matt Holland on the Cheltenham Festival

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