The Poetry Society

Still Modern after all these Years

(Volume 79, No 2, Summer 1989)

Editor

Peter Forbes

Still Modern after all these Years

Sylvia Kantaris: This Side of the Chunnel - a Play on Critical Bearings

Terry Eagleton on Hugh Kenner's A Sinking Island: the Modern English Writers

Three poems by Edwin Morgan: poem by James Lasdun

Anne Stevenson: Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop and the Romantic Iconography of the Mind; poem by Anne Stevenson

Edna Longley on Anthony Easthope and Colin Falck

Poems by John Levett, Jamie McKendrick, Martin Stokes, Charles Tomlinson

Edwin Morgan on Paul Celan; poem by Dannie Abse

John Mole on Roy Fisher

Poems by Yann Lovelock, B. C. Leale, Geoffrey Holloway

Keith Jebb on Tom Raworth, Lee Harwood, Libby Houston, Harry Fainlight, Peter Robinson

Poem by Peter Redgrove

Richard Caddel on Douglas Oliver, Anthony Barnett, Iain Sinclair; poem by Nicki Jackowska

William Scammell on Christopher Ricks' T.S. Elior and Prejudice

Regional Roundup

No 7: The South West by Lawrence Sail

Reviews

Sean O'Brien on hans Magnus Enzensberger, Pablo Neruda, Yehuda Amichai; poem by Gyorgy Petri translated by Clive Wilmer and George Gomori; Dennis O'Driscoll on recent East European poetry' poem by Jan Skacel translated by Jamila and Ian Milner

Douglas Houston on Roy Fuller, Jon Silkin, Patricia Beer, Donald Davie, Peter Porter; David Kennedy on Mark Wormald, Sarah Lawson, Peterloo Preview I; poem by Tony Roberts; John Whitworth on Brian Patten; Bill Turner on William McIlvanney and William Neill; poem by Elizabeth Brtlett; Sheenagh pugh on Catherine Fisher and Bryan Aspden; poem by James Sutherland-Simth; Bernard O'Donoghue on Richard Murphy's New Selected Poems, The Mirror Wall , and other recent books by Irish poets; poem by Selima Hill

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