The Poetry Society Celebrating our centenary

A Hundred Harms: Poetry & the Gulf War

(Volume 82, No 2, Summer 1992)

Editor

Peter Forbes

A Hundred Harms

Peter Forbes on Poetry and the Gulf War; poem by Dimitris Tsaloumas

Poems by Jo Shapcott, Robert Bly, Donald Hall, Glyn Maxwell, Helen Dunmore, Salah Niazi, Fawzi Karim, Stuart Pickford

Simon Armitage on Poetry Across the Gulf

Poems by Hashem Shafiq, Thomas Lux, Lisel Mueller, Ruth Padel, Philip Gross, David Ford, Dejani Chatterjee

Lawrence Ferlinghetti interviewed by Tony Curtis: poem by Ken Smith

General Section

Poems by James Lasdun, John Tranter, Pauline Stainer, Mimi Khalvati, Peter Redgrove, Nadya Aisenberg

The National Poetry Competition: Poems by John Levett and Don Paterson; poem by Jon Silkin

Magazines Roundup No 3: Eva Salzman on Poetry Durham, Honest Ulsterman, Oxford Poetry, and Ambit; poems by Julia Casterton, Maureen Wilkinson, Ruth Silcock, Iain Bamforth, Stephen Romer

Reviews

John Bayley on Ted Hughes's Shakespeare & the Goddess of Complete Being; poem by John Lyons; Don Paterson on Les Murray's Collected Poems; poem by Les Murray; poem by Michael J. Revell; Lucien Jenkins on Adrienne Rich; Carol Rumens on Elizabeth Bartlett; poem by Elizabeth Bartlett

Glyn Maxwell on Peter Reading; poem by Lavinia Greenlaw; Philip Gross on SImon Armitage; poem by Anthony Kellerman; Bernard O'Donoghue on Sean O'Brien; David Kennedy on David Wright, Alan Dixon, Jon Silkin, Colin Flack, Michael Hamburger, D.J. Enright, P.J. Kavanagh; poem by Caroline Price, Derek Stanford: i.m. Geroge Macbeth

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