The Poetry Society Celebrating our centenary

How the Century Lost its Poetry

(Volume 86, No 1, Spring 1996)

Editor

Peter Forbes

How the Century Lost its Poetry

Peter Forbes: How the Century Lost its Poetry; cartoon by BIFF; poem by Charles Boyle; Edna Longley; Signposting the Century; David Gascoyne: Poems of 1936; poem by Peter Wyles; Ian Sansom: What's Become of Wystan?; The Classic Poem: Louis MacNeice's 'Flowers in the Interval', selected by Carol Rumens; MacNeice's translations of an Ode of Horace, selected by Peter Porter

A Second Look

P.J. Kavanagh on Geoffrey Grigson

New Poets '96

Poems by Atar Hadari and Tessa Rose Chester

Appreciations

Anthony Hecht and Gwyneth Lewis on Joseph Brodsky; Joseph Brodsky: an extract from ' In Memory of Stephen Spender'; Iain Crichton Smith on Norman MacCaig

Poems

David Constantine, Peter Armstrong, Cees Nooteboom, Ruth Sharman, Connie Bensley, Kathy Miles, Jamie McKendrick, Jana Stroblova, Roger McGough, P.J. Kavanagh, Elaine Feinstein, Adam Thorpe, Kate Clancy

The Review Pages

Jerzy Jarniewicz on Heaney and Baranczak's translations of Jan Kochanowski; Tim Kendall on Derek Mahon; Roger Garfitt on Jon Stallworthy; Sophie Hannah on Jenny Joseph; Adam Thorpe on David Jones; George Szirtes on John Burnside and Lawrence Sail; Helen Dunmore on Alice Kavounas; Neil Powell on Rodney Pybus, Duncan Forbes, Ian Caws, Mike Jenkins, Tony Curtis, Jon Glover, Yann Lovelock, Hugh McMillan

The Sonnet History

John Whitworth: The Wild Good-Lookers (Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn); illustrations by Gerald Mangan

Reviews

Emma Neale on Dinah Hawken; poem by Moniza Alvi; Michael Hulse on Australian anthologies; Sujata Bhatt on A. K. Ramanujan as poet and anthologist; Susheila Nasta on The Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry; Harry Clifton on John Fuller; Ian McMillan on Glyn Wright; poem by Glyn Wright; Judith Palmer on the Verse interviews; Dennis O'Driscoll on W. S. Graham; Deryn Rees-Jones on Sharon Olds; shorter reviews

National Poetry Competition

1995 Prize Winners: James Harpur, Simon Rae, Christopher North

Reviews

Michael Hulse on Harry Clifton; poem by Harry Clifton; Susan Wicks on Gerald Stern; Matt Holland on Tess Gallagher; Hames Keery on Milner Place; poem by Milner Place; Stephen Burt on Rober Crawford; poem by Don Paterson

Endstops

News and Comment, Competition, Letters