The Poetry Society

Whitworth on Whitworth

(Volume 79, No 1, Spring 1989)

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

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