The Poetry Society

New British Poets

(Volume 77, No 4, Winter 1987/8)

Editor

Peter Forbes

New British Poets

Glyn Maxwell: the Second Sons' Escape, Elements and Ape, Love Probably

Elizabeth Garrett: Tyranny of the Spectrum, Degas' Ecoliere, Imposter

Tony Roberts: His attractive wife, 43 . . ., The House of the Dead

Eva Salzman: Ending up in Kent, Who Wrote this Can of Worms, Forcing Flowers

Martyn Crucefix: Rosetta

Lucy Anne Watt: Frontiers, L'Hotel Paradis, Physics with the Colonel

Michael Henry: Scorebook, A Good Story, Plaster Saint

Gwyneth Lewis: Welsh Espionage

Regional Roundup

No 4: The South, by David Orme

Poems

Tony Harrison, David Constatine, Ruth Fainlight, John Mole, Penelope Shuttle, Bill Sutherland, Katherine Worden, Maura Dooley, Vernon Scannell, M. R. Peacocke, Michael Levene, Anne Ashworth

Reviews

Vernon Scannell on U.A. Fanthorpe, Carol Ann Duffy, Philip Gross; Michael O'Neill on Andrew Motion, Tom Paulin, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Oliver Reynolds; Elizabeth Bartlett on Carole Satyamurti; Bill Turner on Dorothy Nimmo and Stanley Cook; poems by Stanley Cook and Dorothy Nimmo

John Whitworth on Grevel Lindop, Keith Bosley, John Levett, Eric Milward, William Scammell; poem by R.N. Allan

Edna Longley reviews recent Irish poetry; Catherine Byron on Eavan Boland

Poem by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams; Dannie Abse on John Ormond, Ruth Bidgood, Sheenagh Pugh, Hilary Llewellyn-Williams

Carol Ann Duffy on Marilyn Hacker; Dennis O'Driscoll on Brad Leithauser and Charles Tomlinson; poem by Robin Fulton; John Greening on Steve Ellis, Sean O'Brien, Ian McMillan, Julian May, Anthony Howell; poem by Peter Sirr; Douglas Houston on John Ash, Roy Kelly, John Hartley Wiliams, Frank Kuppner

Performance Page

Connie Bensley: Wooster visits Earls Court Square; poem by Mike Williams

Endstops

News and Comment, Competition, Letters; poem by Simon Rae