The Poetry Society

New Poets 90

(Volume 80, No 3, Autumn 1990)

Editor

Peter Forbes

New Poets 90

Anne Stevenson on the Bloodaxe New Women Poets anthology: poems by Elizabeth Garrett, Gwyneth Lewis, Eva Salzman, Mimi Khalvati

Poems by John Sewell, Basil du Toit, Janet Shepperson

Catch Words: the Poetry Society's Autumn New Poets Tour: poem by Simon Armitage; Adam Thorpe on Glyn Maxwell; poem by Glyn Maxwell; poems by Lavinia Greenlaw and Jackie Kay

Julian May on Martyn Crucefix; poems by Martyn Crucefix, Tariq Latif, Robert Crawford; Philip Gross on Robert Crawford; Ian McMillan on Peter Sansom and Alan Jenkins; poems by Peter Sansom, Katherine Worden, Robert Saxton

David Kennedy on Faber's Poetry Introduction 7 and Gerard Woodward; poems by Don Paterson, Tony Roberts, Peter Sirr, Annemarie Austin, Keith Turner, Robert Roberts; Julian May on Deirdre Shanahan

Fiona Pitt-Kethley's advice to young poets; poems by Lucy Ann Watt, Michael Henry, Rosamund Stanhope, Richard Tyrrell, Angela Leighton

Features

Peter Forbes: Romanian Diary

Olwyn Hughes on Sylvia Plath and Bitter Fame

Ian McMillan on the road

Reviews

Dennis O'Driscoll on Carol Ann Duffy; John Whitworth on Dannie Abse; poem by Peter Scupham; Lawrence Sail on Anne Stevenson; poems by Carole Satyamurti, Matthew Sweeney, David Sutton; Terry Eagleton on D.J. Enright

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