The Poetry Society

Classic/National Poetry Day

(Volume 84, No 3, 1994)

Poems
Classic Poems (chosen by poets and public figures): Sandra's Mobile by Douglas Dunn (Richard Eyre); My Grandmother's Love Letters by Hart Crane (Carol Ann Duffy); The Death of Saint Narcissus by T.S. Eliot (Ted Hughes); After paradise by Czeslaw Milosz (Michael Ignatieff); Cirque d'Hiver by Elizabeth Bishop (John Fuller); Joseph by Timothy Steele (Vikram Seth); Eden Rock by Charles Causley (Wendy Cope); A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman (Stephen Spender)
See Madmen by Tadeusz Rozewicz (Miroslav Holub), Messengers by Louise Gluck (Susan Wicks); Low-Down Dirty Shame Blues by Big Joe Turner (Adrian Mitchell), Aubade by Philip Larkin (William Sieghart), The Going by Thomas Hardy (Melvyn Bragg), To the Tune of the Coventry Carol by Stevie Smith (Benjamin Zephaniah), The Defeated Victor by Horst Bienek (John Agard), Reception in Bristol by U.A. Fanthorpe (Michael Foot), The Straw by Robert Graves (Seamus Heaney), Death by Federico Garcia Lorca (Anita Desai), Monarchs by Sharon Olds (Moniza Alvi), Carol Ann Duffy, Gwyneth Lewis, U.A. Fanthorpe, Alison Brackenbury, Simon Armitage, Wendy Cope, Alice Friman, Gavin Ewart, John Levett, John Dixon, Ivan V. Lalic, Ovid versions (by Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, James Lasdun), Ivor C. Treby, Michael Longley, Sam Gardiner, Jerzy Jarniewicz, Jane Duran, Elaine Feinstein, Richard Tillinghast, Anthony Kellman, Charles Tomlinson, Michael Hulse, Dorothy Nimmo, Judith Kazantzis, David Morley, Eric Millward, Gael Turnbull, Philip Gross, Alistair Elliott

Articles and Reviews
Beryl Bainbridge on Carol Ann Duffy
Michael McKie on Rhyme
Alistair Elliot on Classics
Jamie McKendrick on Dante
Jarzy Jarniewicz on the political art of translation
Dennis O'Driscoll meets the poets of a new Romania
Iain Bamforth participates in an Anglo-French Festival of Poetry
Sean O'Brien on Ted Hughes
Judith Kazantzis on Elaine Feinsten
Linda France on Anne Stevenson
Gwyneth Lewis on Eavan Boland
E.A. Markham on Caribbean poetry
Landeg White on E.M. Roach, Jack Mapanje and John Figueroa
David Kennedy on English Poetry Since 1940
John Greening on Martyn Crucefix
Glyn Maxwell on Baudelaire
John Whitworth on Auden
Michael Hulse on Stephen Spender
Ian Duhig on Paul Muldoon
Ian McMillan on Helen Dunmore
Kevan Johnson on John Ashbery
Sylvia Kantaris on Hill, Jenkins, Pitt-Kethley, Thwaite, Whitworth and Williams
Roger Garfitt on Wainwright, Motion and Smith.