New Maps of World Poetry
(Volume 78, No 1, Spring 1988)
Editor
Peter Forbes
New Maps of World Poetry
The Acceleration of the Poet: Joseph Brodsky interviewed
Primo Levi: Two poems translated by Ruth Feldman
Les A. Murray's The Daylight Moon reviewed by Peter Scupham; Two new poems
Miroslav Holub: Super Aesop, translated by Jarmila and Ian Milner
Derek Walcott's The Arkansas Testament reviewed by Fred d'Aguiar, Poem
Dennis O'Driscoll on Adam Czerniawski's anthology of Polish poetry; two poems by Ivan V. Lalic translated by Francis R. Jones; Translation questionnaire; Alan Brownjohn on Tomas Transtromer and Bo Carpelan' Carol Rumerns on Daavid McDuff's Tsvetayeva; Natalya Gorbanevskaya; a poem translated by Daniel Weissbort; Tow poems by Grete Tartler, translated by Fleur Adcock
Catherine Byron: Letter from South China
John Welch on South Asian poetry; Bernard O'Donoghue on poetry from New Zealand
Scottish Roundup
Douglas Dunn's Here and There; Robert Crawford surveys the Scottish poetry scene; Poems by Maureen Macnaughton and Iain Bamforth; Edwin Morgan reviews recent Scottish collections; Bill Turner on Elma Mitchell; Poems by W. N. Herbert and Hugh Macpherson' Literary Landmark; Gavin Ewart and Nicola Jennings on MacDiarmid
William Scammell on recent American poetry; Michael Donaghy: Poem
Poems
Michael Foley, Selima Hill, William Scammell, Kevin crossely-Holland, Shannan Peckham
Reviews
Lawrence Sail on E. J. Scovell's Collected Poems; John Whitworth on Roger McGough, Ken Smith, Ian Hamilton, C. H. Sisson, Peter Porter; Martyn Crucefix on David Constantine; Hon Greening on Jon Silkin and Gladys Mary Coles; Anne Stevenson: Poem; Bill Turner on Colin Rowbotham
Performance Page
Allon Reich on Jonathan Miller's production of Racine's Andromache, translated by eric Korn
Endstops
News and Comment, 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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