The Secret Life of Poems
(Volume 87, No 1, Spring 1997)
Editor
Peter Forbes
Poems
Ruth Padel, Frances Nagel, Harry Clifton, Julie O'Callaghan, Mimi Khalvati, Peter Kane Dufault, David Hartnett, Angela Leighton, Pascale Petit, Dannie Abse, Sarah Maguire, Wayne Burrows, Muriel Rukeyeser, Christopher Hawes, Angela Dove, Philip Gross, Neil Wenborn, Alison Brackenbury, Elizabeth Garrett, Ruth Fainlight, Eva Salzman, Thomas Lynch, Dennis O'Driscoll, Gillian Allnutt, Nadya Aisenberg, Gael Turnbull, Clare Pollard, C.K. Stead, Duncan Forbes, Nigel Prentice, Alan Dixon, Fergus Allen, David Phillips, Brian Cox, Tony Harrison, Simon Armitage.
Articles and Reviews
by Peter Forbes on poems' lives
Jenny Joseph on the story of 'Warning'
Anthony Julius on Auden's 'Law Like Love'
Miroslav Holub's guide to giving poetry reading
Trevor McDonald on War Poetry
"Louis MacNeice" on Maxwell and Armitage
Gillian Allnutt on new magazines
Carol Rumens on Joseph Brodsky
Roger Garfitt on John Montague
Adam Thorpe on Ivan Lalic
The Sonnet History: John Whitworth on Philip Larkin and John Betjeman illustrations by Gerald Mangan
Ian Sansom on Raymond Carver
Andrew Zawacki on Mark Strand
David Hartnett on James Merrill
Stephen Burt on Les Murray
Deryn Rees-Jones on John Rodker, Barbara Guest and Miles Champion
Simon Rae on Matthew Arnold
Harry Clifton on Thomas Kinsella
Neil Powell on Vernon Scannell, Fergus Allen, John Greening and Stephen Knight
Philip Gross on Peter Redgrove
David Wheatley on Roy McFadden, Padraic Fiacc, Peter McDonald, John Hughes and Sinead Morrissey | Sophie Hannah on Christopher Logue and Adrian Mitchell
Sean O'Brien on Ciaran Carson
John Lucas on Gael Turnbull
Christopher Whyte on Sorley MacLean/Somhairle MacGill-Eain
Tom Paulin reviewed by Sarah Maguire
Interview
Tom Paulin interviewed by Jane Hardy
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