The Poetry Society

Strange Attraction

(Volume 86, No 3, Autumn 1996)

Poems by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Jaan Kaplinski, Samuel Beckett, John Ashbery, Miroslav Holub, Selima Hill, K. M. Dersley, John Hartley Williams, Roy Fisher, David Hart, Helen Kidd, Geoffrey Hill, Sharon Olds, John Tranter, Goran Simic, Rutger Kopland, Edwin Morgan, Piotr Sommer, Thom Gunn, Clare Pollard, Kamau Brathwaite, John Burnside, Keith Jebb, Drew Milne, Greta Stoddart, Kevin Crossley-Holland.

Articles and Reviews
Ian Sansom on Conductors of Chaos
Steven Burt on L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry
Edna Longley on critical books by David Kennedy and Ian Gregson
Tim Kendall on early Eliot
Adam Thorpe on Basil Bunting
Ian Gregson on John Ashbery
Michael Heller on the Objectivists
magazines round-up by Keith Jebb (fragmente, Parataxis, Angel Exhaust, Purge)
Mark Doty on Jorie Graham
Don Paterson on Mark Doty
Harry Clifton on Paul Muldoon
Dennis O'Driscoll on Miroslav Holub
David Kennedy on Emergency Kit
Jamie McKendrick on Octavio Paz
Anne Stevenson on George Szirtes
Ian McMillan on Neil Rollinson, Robert Rehder, Ian Pople, Eleanor Brown, Michael Glover
Jonathan Davidson on Moniza Alvi, W. N. Herbert
Helen Kidd on Poetry in the British Isles: Non-Metropolitan Perspectives
Toby Litt on Julia Copus
Elaine Feinstein on Roy Fisher, Christopher Middleton
Judith Palmer on Kate Clanchy, Nicky Rice, Alice Oswald.

Illustrations by Gerald Mangan

Interview
Thom Gunn interviewed by Chris Jones