Poetry & Science

(Volume 77, No 2, June 1987)

Editor

Peter Forbes

Poetry and Science

Peter Redgrove interviewed by Neil Roberts; John Greening on Peter Redgrove's The Mudlark Poems & Grand Buveur; Two poems by Peter Redgrove

Poems by Miroslav Holub, Andrew Waterman, Basil du Toit, Tony Lucas, Ian Caws, Mike williams, Jo Shapcott

Master of Mimesis: John Updike reviewed by Peter Forbes

Poems by Sylvia Kantaris, Philip Gross, K. Lloyd-Thompson

Jenny Joseph: The Bermuda Triangle

Poems by John Latham, Elizabeth Garrett, Helen Dunmore, Glyn Maxwell, Alistair Elliot, Pascale Petit, Cameron Self, Neal Mason, John Cassidy, Tony Roberts

Philip Holmes' The Green Road reviewed by John Greening

Peter Scupham on Desmond King-Hele's Erasmus Darwin and the Romantic Poets

Eva Salzman: Poem

Regional Roundup

No 2: The North: cumbria, Northumberland, Durham, Cleveland, by David Scott

Reviews

Douglas Dunn on Lawrence Sail's Devotions; Lawrence Sail: Ring; Lawrence Sail on P. J. Kavanagh's Presences

Poems by Laurence Lerner, Hilary Taylor, John Greening

Bill Turner on Pamela Gillian, Helen Dunmore, Anna Adams; poems by Joseph O'Neill, Nicki Jackowska

Sylvia Kantaris on The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse; poem by Neil Powell

Bernard O'Donoghue on John Mole's Homing; poem by Elizabeth Jennings

Bernard O'Donoghue on James Simmons' Poems 1956-1986; poem by Denis Doyle

Jonathan Barker on Vernon Watkins' Collected Poems; Anthony Rudolf on Daniel Weissbort

Poems by Michael Henry, Michael Laskey, E. J. Scovell, Joyce M. Schreibman, Martyn Crucefix

Performance Page

Matt Holland on Apples and Snakes

Endstops

News and Comment, Sic! Competition, Letters

Peter Forbes edited Poetry Review from 1986-2002
His New Generation edition was the best-selling issue of his editorship.
In his final year as editor he compiled a survey of contemporary British poets which was published over several issues.

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