The Poetry Society Celebrating our centenary

Still Life at the Poetry Cafe

(Volume 85, No 1, Spring 1995)

Editor

Peter Forbes

The Poetry Season

Penguin Modern Poets: Carol Ann Duffy, Eavan Boland, Peter Reading, Glyn Maxwell, Blake Morrison, Kit Wright, Vicki Feaver; the original volumes

Louis MacNeice: Jon Stallworthy's biography reviewed by Peter Forbes

John Betjeman's 'Business Girls' with illustration by David Gentleman

Elizabeth Bartlett interviewed by Carol Rumes; poem by Elizabeth Bartlett

Poem by Sophie Hannah; her first collection reviewed by John Whitworth

Poems by James Berry, Kate Clanchy, Lawrence Sail, Roger Crawford, Bernard O'Donoghue

Helen Dumore on first collections; the Poetry Season - highlights

Ted Hughes reviewed by Don Paterson

Poetry & Science

Leon Cych and Chris Meade on the Internet; poem by Jackie Hardy; Paul Mills: The Quantum Uncertainty of the Narrator; poems by Pascale Petit, Sally Carr, Keki N. Daruwalla, Amanda Wilson, John Goodby, John Latham, Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Howard, William Scammell, John Burnside

Poetry & Health

Dr Robin Philipp and Mike Sharpe on the therapeutic effects of poetry; poem by Marion Lomax

The Poetry Season

Swansea UK Year of Lietrature and Writing: poems by Gwyneth Lewis, Deryn Rees-Jones, Jean Earle; Ian McMillan on Deryn Rees-Jones, catherine Fisher and Tim Liardet; poems by Kathy Miles, Paul Groves, John Powell Ward, Paul Henry

The Classic Poem: Dannie Abse chooses Bernard Spencer's ' Part of Plenty'

Reviews & Poems

Michael Donaghy on Marylin Hacker; poem by Alice Friman, Martyn Crucefix on David Harsent; Robert Crawford on Iain Critchton Smith; poem by E.A. Markham; Anthony Rudolf on Carolyn Forche; Dennis O'Driscoll on Harry Smart; poem by Ian Gregson

David Constantine's Caspar Hauser reviewed by Michael Hulse; poem by Atar Hadari, John Bayley on Christopher Logue; Laurie Smith on Peter Porter, Ichael Horovitz on Ginsberg; Roger Garfitt on C. H. Sisson, Peter Levi, Thomas Lynch, Stuart Henson, Neil Powell, Neil Curry

Poem by Carol Rumens; Sean O'Brien on Edna Longley; David Kennedy on Deborah Randall; poem by John Gohorry