The Poetry Society Celebrating our centenary

The Education Issue

(Volume 78, No 3, Autumn 1988)

Editor

Peter Forbes

The Education Issue

Kenneth Baker interviewed

Carol Rumens: Lines Upon The Faber Book of English History in Verse

P. J. Kavanagh and Peter Levi on the Kingman Report

Poems by Madeline Brand, James Berry, John Mole; Wes Magee on Ted Hughes: poem by Kit Wright

Lois Beeson on resources fro Poetry in Schools; poems by Wendy Cope and Philip Gross

Glyn Maxwell on the Boston Creative Writing Program; Breath (a poem)

Poems

Eva Salzman, Peter Scupham, Tony Roberts, Penelope Shuttle

Special Feature

Part 2 of Joyce M. Schreinbman's roundup of the Poet Appreciation Societies

Poems

Roy Kelly, Mary Maher, Kit Wright, Steve Ellis, Adrienne Brady

Reviews

John Fuller on Britten and Auden's Paul Bunyan; poem by John Sewell; John Bayley on Seamus Heaney's essays; poem by Keith Turner; John Mole on Michael Longley's Selceted MacNeice and Edna Longley's Study; Douglas Houston on A Various Art; poem by Simon Finazzi Williams

John Whitworth on George MacBeth; John Greening on John Heath-Stubbs; poem by Carole Satyamurti; Seam O'Brien on George Sziretes, Chris Wllace-Crabbe, Charles Boyle , and Jeremy Reed; John Lucas on John Fuller; Dennis O'Driscoll on Alan Jenkins and Lachlan Mackinnon; poem by Michael Laskey; Catherine Byron on Medbh McGuckian; Rosemary Hill on Selima Hill (no relation); poem by P. J. Kavanagh; Lawrence Sail on F. T. Prince; Neil Powell on Thom Gunn and Lawrence Sail; poem by Michael Barrett

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