The Poetry Society Celebrating our centenary

The Poetry Business

(Volume 77, No 1, April 1987)

Editor

Peter Forbes

The Poetry Business

Collaboration: James Fenton & John Fuller: The Thing that People Do; Gavin Ewart on Fenton and Fuller's Partingtime Hall; Sylvia Kantaris & Philip Gross: The Air Mines of Mistila - a Symposium and Four Poems

Ian McMillan's Diary

Poetry Live Festival May 4 - 15

Writers-in-Residence: Sylvia Kantaris, U.A. Fanthorpe, and BIFF

Catherine Byron: Regional Roundup No I

Gerda Mayer: The Poetry Reading

Wiliam Scammell on Charles Osbourne's Giving It Away

Joe Allard: Poetry on Campus

Paul Groves: Writing to Alison Myers

Wes Magee: Poetry in Schools

Poems

Carol Rumens, George Szirtes, William Scammell, Balke Morrison, Tony Curtis, Peter Scupham, George MacBeth

Competition Reports

The 1986 National Poetry Competition Prizewinners

Water Babies

Reviews

Edna Longley on Ted Hughes' Flowers and Insects; Peter Forbes on Edna Longley's Poetry in the Wars; Ian McMillan on small press publications; Carol Ann Duffy: Three pamphlets

Dorothy Nimmo: Dream Play

John Whitworth on Elizabeth Bartlett's The Czar is Dead; Elizabeth Bartlett: Ego Trip; George Szirtes on new books from Anvil, Carcanet, Mandeville, and Menard; Anne Stevenson on American Poetry; John Greening on R.S. Thomas, Jon Stallworthy, Iain Crichton Smith, Robert Wells, and Andrew Waterman; Dennis O'Driscoll on Fleur Adcock, Elaine Feinstein, and Denise Levertov; John Bayley on Willaim Cookson's Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound

Gavin Ewart & Nicola Jennings: Literary Landmarks: T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound

Endstops

News and comment, Sic! Competition, Letters, BIFF