The Poetry Society Celebrating our centenary

The Green Issue

(Volume 80, No 1, Spring 1990)

Editor

Peter Forbes

The Green Issue

James Lovelock on Gaia

Philip Gross on Bill McKibben's The End of Nature; poem by Philip Gross

Poems by Primo Levi, Miroslav Holub, Robert Saxton, Paul Munden, Richard Blomfield

David Gascoyne on the Greenwood Theme in literature; tree poems by Lucy Anne Watt, David Hartnett, Anne Ashworth

Sue Hubbard on the collaboration between Selima Hill and sculptor Bill Woodrow; Vernon Scannell on war poetry

Poems by Les Murray, E.A. Markham, P.J. Kavanagh, Helen Kidd, Angela Leighton, Tony Harrision, John Levett, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Hilary Llewellyn-Williams

Julian May on Ted Walker ; poems by Jane Wilson, Basil du Toit; John Powell Ward on The Orange Dove of Fiji and Sacred Elephant; poem by Jon Silkin

Poems by Alison Brackenbury, Leona Esther Medlin, Helen Dunmore, John Gurney, Tom Rawling, Carol Ann Duffy, David Sutton, U.A. Fanthorpe, Douglas Houston, Adam Thorpe, Jenny Joseph, Pauline Stainer, Graham Mort, Mick North

Matt Holland on collections for causes; poem by Kevin Crossley-Holland; Dennis O'Driscoll on George Mackay Brown

Welsh Roundup

Peter Finch on the poetry scene in Wales; Douglas Houston on new books from Seren and University of Wales Press; Tony Curtis on Alice Thomas Ellis' Wales: an Anthology

Reviews

John Lucas on Dannie Abse's Hutchinson Book of Post-War British Poets; Matthew Sweeney on Kit Wright; Bill Turner on new books from Enitharmon, Dangaroo, Bloodaxe, Hippopotamus, Peterloo and Seren; Glyn Maxwell on the Selected McGough; Graham Mort on Simon Armitage; Elizabeth Bartlett on Sylvia Kantaris

Lawrence Sail on Alistair Elliot's Collected Poems; Sebastian Barker on Robert Nye; William Scammell on C.H. Sisson's 'partial autobiography'; Sean O'Brien on Les Murray's verse novel and Raymond Carver's last poems

David Kennedy on books from Robson, Peterloo, Carcanet, Enitharmon, Littlewood, and Bloodaxe; Peter Sirr on Peter Porter; Sean O'Brien on the Collected MacBeth; John Whitoworth on Fiona Pitt-Kethley; Sheenagh Pugh on May Sarton, Joan Downar, Gillian Clarke, Anna Akhmatova

Endstops

News and comment, Competition, Letters; Anne Stevenson: a reply to Lyndall Gordon