The Poetry Society Celebrating our centenary

Going Critical

(Volume 82, No 1, Spring 1992)

Editor

Peter Forbes

Going Critical

Terry Eagleton in conversation with James Wood; poems by Sean O'Brien and Jonathan Treitel

Edna Longley on Auden; poem by Keith Ashton

Hermione Lee on Anne Sexton

Poems by Richard Wilbur, Colin Falck, Jean Joubert (trs. Ruth Fainlight), and Aileen La Tourette

John Lucas on Edgell Rickword; Martyn Crucefix on Tony Harrison; poems by Vuyelwa Carlin and Ken Smith; Sean O'Brien on Simon Rae's Faber Book of Drink, Drinkers and Drinking

Geoffrey Galt Harpham on Donald Davie's Pound; Dana Gioia on the American reception of 'Can Poetry Matter'; poems by Neil Curry, Stephen Romer, and Lucy Anne Watt

E.A. Markham on The Art of Derek Walcott; John Whitworth on Sixteenth Century verse and on Peter Levi; Paul Fussell on Scannell at 70; Jeremy Reed on Kenneth Koch; poem by John Hartley Williams

Lawrence Sail on Daniel Weissbort's The Poetry of Survival; Harry Clifton on Gerald Dawes' How's the Poetry Going? and recent Irish poetry; poem by Bibhu Padhi

Jeremy Reed: In Memory of George Barker

David Kennedy on autobiographies by James Kirkup, Jeremy Reed, and Roy Fuller; poem by Moniza Alvi; Kevan Johnson on Contemporary Poetry Meets Modern Theory; Helen Dunmore on Maura Dooley, Elizabeth Garrett, Jackie Kay, and Julie O'Callaghan; poem by Catherine Fisher

Sebastian Barker on Norman MacCaig; Hugh Macpherson on Kenneth White; Roger Garfitt on Sorley MacLean; poems by W.N. Herbert and Robin Fulton; Bill Turner on Scottish poetry

Helen Dunmore on The Bright Field and Poetry Wales 25 Years; Douglas Houston on R.S. Thomas; poem by Dannie Abse; Tony Curtis on Dannie Abse

Michael Hulse on Bernard O'Donoghue, MIchael Laskey, Lachlan Mackinnon, and Landeg White; Graham Mort on Geoff Hattersley and John Lancaster; poems by Anthony Kellman and Alsion Brackenbury

Magazines Roundup No 2: Dennis O'Driscoll on Stand, PN Review, London Magazine, and Poetry Wales

Poem by Tony Roberts; Ian McMillan on John Ash, Sujata Bhatt, Mimi Khalvati, John Greening, Ian Duhig, Gerlad Mangan, George Charlton, Harry Smart, Sarah Maguire, Mark Roper, Brian Waltham, Tariq Latif, Patricia Pogson, and Robert Roberts

Philip Gross on Gerard Woodward and John Burnside; poems by Gerard woodward and Robert Fenn

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