The Poetry Society

Poets out of Place

(Volume 79, No 3, Autumn 1989)

Editor

Peter Forbes

Poets out of Place

Crossing the Lines: William Scammell on James Fenton's poetry and journalism

Poems by James Kirkup, Sandy Solomon and Leah Fritz

A Backward Glance: Michael Donaghy on poetry in England and America

Two poems by Peter Sirr

The March Marches: George Szirtes on political change in Hungary; poems by George Szirtes and Annemarie Austin

James Sutherland-Smith: Being There: an expatriate poet confesses; poems by James Lasdun and Richard Sanger

Robert Crawford on recent Australian poetry

Matt Holland visits Peru; Michael Wood on Octavio Paz's Collected Poems; poems by Alistair Elliot and Philip Gardner

Adam Czerniawski on Tadeusz Rozewicz; poem by Tadeusz Rozewicz translated by Adam Czerniawski; poem by Denise Catharine James

Martyn Crucefix on Ken Smith's time inside Wormwood Scrubs; poem by Adrienne Brady

Poem

Pascale Petit, Gerard Woodward, Edwin Morgan, Glyn Maxwell, Terry Jones

Reviews

John Whitworth on Peter Reading; poem by K. Lloyd-Thompson; Sylvia Kantaris on Eavan Boland, Adrienne Rich, Selima Hill, Phoebe Hesketh, Dinah Livingstone; poem by Eavan Boland; Peter Scupham on Peter Levi; Glyn Maxwell on Heathcote Williams' Falling for a Dolphin

Choosing Poetry for Kingsley Amis: David Kennedy on Simon Curtis, Robert Etty, Geoffrey Holloway, New Chatto Poets 2, Frank Kuppner; poem by Robert Crawford; Julian May on Neil Curry, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Neil Astley; Lawrence Sail on Baudelaire's prose poems and the Intimate Journals

Michael Horovitz on Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bernard Kops, Kathy Acker, Gavin Ewart; poem by Tom Rawling' Sheenagh Pugh on Deborah Randall, Pauling Stainer, Marion Lomax, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Jennings; Sean O'Brien on Matthew Sweeney, Robert Johnstone, John Burnside, John Gallas; Philip Gross on Tony Curtis, Hugo Williams, Michael Schmidt, Dick Davis, David Harsent, Fred D'Aguiar

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