Editor
Peter Forbes
John Whitworth
Whitworth on Whitworth
John Whitworth: Youth and Andrew Marvell (poem)
Poems
David Sutton, Jane Wilson, Anne Stevenson, Dannie Abse, Lawrence Sail, Mark Hutchinson, James Lasdun, Sylvia Kantaris, Donald Atkinson
Black Writing
David Dabydeen on Wole Soyinka, Ian McDonald, A. L. Hendriks; poems by Fred D'Aguiar, James Berry, E. A. Markham
Poems
John Hartley Williams, Lucy Anne Watt, William Scammell, Andrew Greig, John Levett, Elizabeth Garrett
French Connections
Lawrence Sail on Philippe Jaccottet, and Paul Auster's Random House Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry; two poems by Yves Bonnefoy
Irish Roundup
Dennis O'Driscoll on poetry in the Irish Republic; poem by Peter Sirr
Reviews
John Whitworth on Kit Wright; Michael Donaghy on C. K. Williams; poem by Carole Robertson; Sheenagh Pugh on Marge Piercy, Helen Dunmore, Penelope Shuttle, Carol Rumens, Jo Shapcott, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Alison Fell; Wes Magee on Charles Causley; poem by Connie Bensley; Glyn Maxwell on Micheal Donaghy, David Hartnett, Paul Groves; poem by Paul Groves
John Greening on Kathleen Taine, Anne Ridler, Norman MacCaig, Jack Clemo, Sidney Keyes, david Gascoyne; Matt HOlland on recent anthologies; David Constatine on fiction by Peter Levi and Elaine Feinstein; Sylvia Kantaris on Alison Brackenbury; poems by Michael Donaghy and Steve Davy; Elizabeth Bartlett on Anna Adams, Patric Dickinson, Christopher Levenson, John Wells, Giles Scupham, Roger Elikin, Jim Burns, Brian Levison; George Szirtes on Martin Bell
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.