Beyond The Bell Jar

(Volume 86, No 4, Winter 1996)

Poems
Eleanor Brown, Alice Oswald, Kate Clanchy, Tessa Rose Chester, Julia Copus, Jane Duran, Sophie Hannah, Gwyneth Lewis, Katherine Pierpoint, Deryn Rees-Jones, Ruth Sharman, Wislawa Szymborska, Jane Holland, Robert Frost, Louise Gluck, Moniza Alvi, Fleur Adcock, Annemarie Austin, Paula Meehan, Jackie Kay, Elizabeth Bartlett, Smita Agarwal, Penelope Shuttle, Medbh McGuckian, Susan Wicks, Carole Satyamurti, Connie Bensley, Elizabeth Garrett, Pauline Stainer.

Articles and Reviews
Peter Forbes on the New Women Poets
Carol Rumens on Maura Dooley's anthology of women poets, Making for Planet Alice
John Hartley Williams on Rosemary Tonks
Anne Stevenson on Sylvia Plath
Dennis O'Driscoll on Wislawa Szymborska's selected poems, A View With a Grain of Sand; Jerzy Jarniewicz gives a Polish view
Helen Dunmore on Anne Stevenson
John Bayley on Christopher Reid
Atar Hadari on Sophie Hannah
John Greening on Tessa Rose Chester
Gillian Allnutt on The Forward Book of Poetry 1997
Adam Thorpe on Wanda Barford & Rose Auslander
Ian McMillan on Maura Dooley
Linda France on Jackie Kay, Merle Collins and Grace Nichols
Justin Quinn on Adrienne Rich
Maggie O'Farrell on Penelope Shuttle and Pauline Stainer
Sophie Hannah on Gavin Ewart
Jane Dowson on Ruth Pitter
Paula Burnett on Olive Senior and Barnadine Evaristo
Elizabeth Lowery on Rita Ann Higgins and Paula Meehan.

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