The Poetry Society

The Dancer and the Dance

(Volume 83, No 2, 1993)

Poems
Debjani Chatterjee, Gerard Woodward, Lavinia Greenlaw, Paul Durcan, Tony Curtis, Carol Ann Duffy, Stephen Romer, Glyn Maxwell, John Burnside, Selima Hill, George Szirtes, George Charlton, John Hartley Williams, Desanka Maksimovic, Gwyneth Lewis, Andrew Waterman, R. S. Thomas, Ruth Fainlight, James Simmons, Carol Rumens, Yann Lovelock, Peter Porter, Gee Williams, Rutger Kopland, Keki N. Daruwalla, Mirala Ivanova, Anthony Howell, David Phillips, Sophie Hannah, Elizabeth Bartlett, John Dixon, Diane Fahey, Moniza Alvi, Hugh McMillan, Stephen Knight, Adrian Henri.

Articles and Reviews
Helen Dunmore reviews Bloodaxe's The New Poetry
The New Poetry Symposium: John Osborne, Anne Stevenson, Roger Garfitt, Rosemary Hill, Edwin Morgan, Susheila Nasta, Richard Tyrrell, John Bayley, Debjani Chatterjee, John Lucas, Dennis O'Driscoll, Harry Ritchie, John Greening, Andrew Motion, Blake Morrison
David Kennedy on Poetry & Science
Michael Hulse on Terry Eagleton and political poetry
A. Alvarez: A Note on Anthologies
George Szirtes on Alvarez's Modern European Poetry
Gavin Ewart on Motion's biography of Larkin
Neil Powell on R.S. Thomas
Ian McMillan on Paul Durcan
Philip Gross on P.J. Kavanagh
Sean O'Brien on John Hewitt
John Greening on C. Day Lewis
W.N. Herbert on Hugh MacDiarmid
Keith Turner on William Scammell
John Lucas on Lawrence Sail
Michael Hulse on Stephen Romer, Michael Donaghy, and Don Paterson Kevan Johnson on C.K. Williams
Glyn Maxwell on Miroslav Holub
Michael Donaghy on Dana Gioa's Can Poetry Matter?
Don Paterson on Weldon Kees
John Whitworth on Arvon (et al.)

Interview
Vikram Seth