The Poetry Society Celebrating our centenary

New Generation Poets - A Poetry Review Special Issue

(Volume 84, No 1, Spring 1994)

Editor

Peter Forbes

Poetry and Articles

Talking about the New Generation: Peter Forbes on the best of the young British poets

Simon Armitage: profile, three new poems, & Armitage in America

Kathleen Jamie: profile, three new poems, The Queen of Sheba reviewed by Edwin Morgan

Don Paterson: profile, three new poems

Caledonia Dremaing - Dream State: THe New Scottish Poets reviewed by Douglas Dunn

David Dabydeen: profile, extract from Turner, DD on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, & Turner reviewed by Margaret Busby

Susan Wicks: profile, three new poems

Westminster Muse: politicians on New Gen. poems

Robert Crawford: profile, three new poems & Identifying Poets reviewed by Ian Gregson

Elizabeth Garrett: profile, three new poems

Michael Hofmann: profile, three poems, MH on Zbigniew Herbert and Adam Zagajewski

How We Made The New Gen. - the faxes behind the facts

Jamie McKendrick: profile, three poems & The Kiosk on the Brink reviewed by Roger Garfitt

New Gen Diary by Don Paterson

Michael Donaghy: profile, three new poems, MD on John Updike's Collected Poems

A Bluffer's Guide to Poetry Workshops by Ian McMillan

Sarah Maguire: profile, three new poems, SM on New Virago Poets, Katie Donovan, Faber Poetry Introduction 8, and Fergus Allen, SM on Postmodernism

John Burnside: profile, three new poems & The Myth of the Twin reviewed by Ian McMillan

A Bluffer's Guide to Reviewerspeak

BIFF Cartoon

The Louts of Literature: Gavin Ewart on alcohol adverts and alliterative verse

Forthcoming issues

Pauline Stianer: profile, three new poems, PS on The Selected Works of David Jones

Moniza Alvi: profile, three new poems, The Country at my Shoulder reviewed by Linda France

Glyn Maxwell: profile, two new poems & Calypso: A Carribean Tale

The Even Newer Generation: schoolchildren on New Gen poems

Mick Imlah: profile, two poems

Lavinia Greenlaw: profile, three new poems, Night Photograph reviewed by Ian McMIllan, LG on Anna Akhmatova

W.N. Herbert: profile, three new poems, Forked Tongue reviewed by Edwin Morgan

Carol Ann Duffy: profile, two new poems

Naming of Poets (& a guide to footwear) by Sylvia Kantaris

New Gen Events Diary

National Poetry Competition: Sam Gardiner's 'Protestant Windows', Eva Salzman's 'Alex, Tiffany, Meg' and a full list of prizewinners

Poem by John Hegley, JH profiled by Sue Hubbard

Jackie Kay's Other Lovers reviewed by Elizabeth Bartlett

Linda France on first collections by Anne Rouse, Christine McNeill, Stephen Knight, and Stephen Smith

Sean O'Brien on first collections by Martin Mooney, Desmond Graham, Angela McSeveney, Sue Stewart, and James Harpur

Endstops

News and Comment, Competition, Letters