The Poetry Society

Poetry for Christmas

(Volume 85, No 3, 1995)

Poems
Simon Armitage, R. S. Thomas, Sean O'Brien, Tony Harrison, Fleur Adcock, John Fuller, U.A. Fanthorpe, Kit Wright, Iain Crichton Smith, Gwyneth Lewis; Justin Quinn; Peter Reading; Jane Duran; Deryn Rees-Jones; Sophie Hannah; Elizabeth Bartlett, Kate Clanchy, Tim Liardet, Alison Brackenbury, Matthew Sweeney, Marita Maddah, Elizabeth Garrett, Bibhu Padhi, Michael Cullup, Ron Butlin, Sophie Hannah, Edward Deville, Vernon Scannell, Stephen Smith, Paul Zarzyski, Sally Carr, Mark Wormald.

Articles and Reviews
Peter Forbes: Why the New Popular Poetry Makes More Sense
Denis Healey on R. S. Thomas
John Lucas on U. A. Fanthorpe
single collections for Christmas
Fiachra Gibbons on Simon Armitage
Michael Hulse on Sean O'Brien
Michele Roberts on Margaret Atwood
The 1996 Forward Prize
George Szirtes on Gwyneth Lewis
David Kennedy on Maggie Hannan
Robert Potts on Justin Quinn
Miroslav Holub on Poetry of the Second World War
anthologies for Christmas
John Whitworth and Roy Hattersley on the Pengin Modern Poets
Sarah Maguire on Jane Duran
Ian McMillan on Carol Ann Duffy's Anvil New Poets 2
Children's poetry for Christmas
Donald Davie on new critical works
biographies for Christmas
Gavin Ewart on W. H. Auden
modern classics for Christmas
The Christmas Catalogue 1895
Sandie Byrne on Tony Harrison
Stephen Burt on James Lasdun
Judith Palmer on cowboy poetry
Sophie Hannah on Robert Service
Matt Holland on audio poetry
John Whitworth's Sonnet History of Modern Poetry
John Greening on James Merrill
Dannie Abse on Bernard Spencer
Quentin Bell on Stephen Spender
Czeslaw Milosz on Anna Kamienska
E. A. Markham on Andrew Salkey
Germaine Greer on a neglected generation of women poets
Helen Dunmore on new collections
pamphlets round-up by Bill Turner
magazines round-up by James Keery.