The Hoax Issue

(Volume 87, No 2, Spring 1997)

Editor
Peter Forbes

Poems
Glyn Maxwell, Harry Clifton, Fred D'Aguiar, George Szirtes, Mark Doty, Elaine Feinstein; James Sutherland-Smith, Sarah Corbett, Wayne Burrows, Jayanta Mahapatra, Ruth Padel, John Mole, David Hart, Elizabeth Garrett, Atar Hadari, Simon Rae, Dorothy Nimmo, Michael Henry, Matthew Sweeney, Matthew Hollis, John Goodby, Martyn Crucefix, Edwin Morgan, Greta Stoddart, David Wheatley, Paul Farley, Anthony Thwaite, Michael Longley, Martin Reed, Sinead Morrissey, Gee Williams, Ruth Pitter, David Moorcroft, Anton Korweg, Ivy Garlitz.

Articles and Reviews
Peter Forbes on the Hiroshima Hoaxer
David Wheatley on Ern Malley
Gwyneth Lewis on forgery
Tom Shapcott on Gwen Harwood
Hermione Lee on the School Bag
Ian Sansom on Don Paterson
Jo Shapcott on W.D. Snodgrass
Adam Thorpe on Pessoa
Philip Gross on Andrew Motion
Gillian Allnutt on Elaine Feinstein
Sean O'Brien on John Fuller
John Burnside on Geoffrey Hill
Jane Holland on Sappho
Ruth Padel on The Odyssey
Steve Ellis on Dante
Harry Clifton on Auden
Lawrence Sail on Enzensberger
Dennis O'Driscoll on Dutch poetry
Michael Donaghy on the New Formalism
Helen Dunmore on Thomas Lynch
Maggie O'Farrell on James Harpur
Ian McMillan on first collections
Sheenagh Pugh on Iain Crichton Smith
Andrew Zawacki on David Hartnett and Jamie McKendrick
James Keery on Dick Davis and Iain Bamforth
'Calling Ships at Sea' by Jenny Joseph
Tim Kendall on the Norton Anthology
William Scammell on Samuel Beckett
Stephen Burt on Tony Harrison
Adrian Mitchell on Allen Ginsberg
Anne Stevenson on Tom Rawling.

Interview
Mark Doty interviewed by Carole Satyamurti

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