International Issue
Poems
Charles Simic, Czeslaw Milosz, Moniza Alvi, Durs Grünbein, Miroslav Holub, John Berger, Michael Donaghy, Mimi Khalvati, Jayanta Mahapatra, Jackie Kay, Barbara Maria Kloos, Sylva Fischerová, Mronislaw Maj, Jan Kochanowski, Marc Tritsmans, Maria Kloos, Cees Nooteboom, Anton Korteweg, Jan Eijkelboom, Deryn Rees-Jones, Sheenagh Pugh, Jeet Thayil, Mirela Ivanova, Mircea Cartarescu, George Szirtes, Gyözö Ferencz, Miklós Radnóti, Philip Gross, Valeno Magrelli, Michael Longley, Alison Brackenbury, Martin Mooney, Michael Henry, Nicki Jackowska, Peter Redgrove
Articles and Reviews
Helen Dunmore: The Country at my Shoulder
Sarah Maguire on Sujata Bhatt
John Killick on Mimi Khalvati
Nick Hornby on Glyn Maxwell
Michael Hofmann on Durs Grünbein
David Constantine on Young Poets of Germany
John Hartley Williams on Michael Druger and Sarah Kirsch
Ewald Osers on new Czech poetry
Jerzy Jarniewicz on Czeslaw Milosz
James Brockway on Hans Faverey
Dennis O'Driscoll on Charles Simic
John Greening on recent American poetry
David Kennedy on Frank O'Hara
Elaine Feinstein on Elena Schvartz
William Scammell on Marina Tsvetayeva
John Whitworth on George Szirtes
Clive Wilmer on Zsuzsa Rakovsky
John Lucas on Yannis Ritsos
Roger Garfitt on Pablo Neruda
Harry Clifton on Italian poetry
Jamie McKendrick on Montale
Lawrence Sail on international magazines
John Bayley on Michael Longley
Carol Rumens on Alison Brackenbury
John Burnside on Pauline Stainer
Linda France on Ian McMillan
Sylvia Kantaris on Carole Satyamurti
James Keery on new books from Bloodaxe
Ian McMillan on Philip Gross
Kevan Johnson on David Gascoyne.
Peter Forbes edited Poetry Review from 1986-2002
His New Generation edition was the best-selling issue of his editorship.
In his final year as editor he compiled a survey of contemporary British poets which was published over several issues.