The Poetry Society

Poetry in the '80s

(Volume 79, No 4, Winter 1989/90)

Editor

Peter Forbes

Poetry in the '80s

Seamus Heaney: Four new poems from Holdings; Bernard O'Donoghue on Heaney's first lectures as Oxford Professor of Poetry

Poem by Tony Curtis

Ted Hughes's Wolfwatching reviewed by Philip Gross

Poems by Peter Sirr and Catherine Byron; Comment by Sebastian Barker and Carol Rumens

Carol Ann Duffy: Poet for our Times (poem); Poems by John Mole and Peter Scupham; Comment by Anne Stevenson and Bernard O'Donoghue; Poem by Ken Smith

R.S. Thomas; The Seasons (poem); Comment by James Berry; Poems by Fleur Adcock and Anne Stevenson

Edna Longley on Donald Davie's Under Brigglflatts and other recent criticism

Poems by Paul Muldoon, Douglas Dunn, Les A. Murray, Wendy Copem Comment by Sylvia Kantaris and David Dabydeen; Poem by Lawrence Sail

Peter Finch: Letters to the Small Magazine; Poem by Vikram Seth

Poems by Adam Thorpe and William Scammell; Comment by Alastair Niven and Douglas Dunn, Dennis O'Driscoll on Richard Wilbur; Poems by Jeremy Reed and Glyn Maxwell; Comment by George Szirtes and John Whitworth

Poem by Peter Redgrove; John Powell Ward on Redgrove's The First Earthquake; Jay Ramsay on Redgrove's Black Goddess; Poem by David Sutton

Comment by Terry Eagleton, William Scammell, Fleur Adcock; Poem by Elizabeth Bartlett; Elizabeth Bartlett on Grace Nichols; Poem by Ruth Fainlight

Comment by Sean O'Brien; Poems by Alison Brackenbury, Edwin Morgan, Penelope Shuttle, Vernon Scannell, Simon Curtis, Gavin Ewart; Comment by Jon Silkin

Regional Roundup

No 8: Bruce Barnes and Martyn Crucefix on London

Reviews

Lyndall Gordon on Anne Stevenson's biography of Sylvia Plath; John Whitworth on the Larkin industry; Gavin Ewart on John Whitworth; Ian McMillan on recent pamphlets; Lois Beeson on poetry for children; Allon Reich on Carol Rumens' play Nearly Siberia

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