The Poetry Society

Louis MacNeice

(Volume 78, No 2, Summer 1988)

Editor

Peter Forbes

Louis MacNeice

Louis MacNeice: Broken Windows or Thinking Aloud, an unpublished essay

Edna Longley: MacNeice and After

Anthony Thwaite: Memories of Rothwell House - Louis MacNeice at the BBC

Peter Forves: Man of Moments (poem)

Peter Scupham on MacNeice's Selected Literary Criticism

Poems

John Whitworth, Shirley Bell, Robert Crawford, Glenda Beagan, Keith Turner, James Berry, Hugh McMillan, Robert Saxton, David Hartnett, Dennis O'Driscoll, S. E. G. Curtis

Special Feature

Joyce M. Schrelbman reports on the Poet Appreciation Societies: Part I

Poems

David Sutton, Andrew Waterman, Maureen Wilkinson, Simon Rae, Terry Jones, Bill Turner, Anne Ashworth, John Greening, Peter Scupham

Regional Roundup

No 5: the South East by John Whitworth

Poems

Steve Davies, Graham Mort, Jenny Joseph, Anna Adams, Anthony Thwaite

Second Look

Matt Holland on the poetry of Anna Wickham

Poems

Julie Whitby, Richard Tyrrell

Reviews

Tony Curtis on R. S. Thomas; John Mole on Ruth Fainlight; David Sutton on Molly Holden; poems by Colin Rowbotham and Bernard O'Donoghue; Julian May on Graham Mort, Jack Clemo, David Craig, John Barnie, Hean Earle, Jeremy Hooker, Annemarie Austin, and Lawrence Whistler; poems by Richard Sanger and Iain Bamforth; Michael O'Neill on Amy Clampitt; poem by Tony Curtis; Bernard O'Donoghue on Peter Reading; poem by Landeg White; Fred D'Aguiar on David Dabydeen; William Cookson on Heather Buck; poem by David Kennedy

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