Fanfare For The Comic Muse

(Volume 88, No 3, Autumn 1998)

Editor
Peter Forbes

Poems
Sophie Hannah, Ann Drysdale, Ian Sansom, Elizabeth Bartlett, John Hegley, Paul Groves, Gee Williams, Jane Holland, John Mole, Kit Wright, John Fuller, Alison Pryde, Roger McGough, Vernon Scannell, Simon Rae, Richard Bristowe, Robert Saxton, Sarah Wardle, Duncan Forbes, Brian Fewster, Robert Frost, Smita Agarwal, Paul Henry, Deryn Rees-Jones, Ann Sansom, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Ros Barber

Articles and Reviews
Peter Forbes on Wendy Cope's anthology for National Poetry Day: The Funny Side - 101 Humorous Poems
The Sonnet History: John Whitworth and Gerald Mangan on Allen Ginsberg
The War Poets and Seamus Heaney
Paul Groves reviews From the Sonnet History
Griff Rhys Jones on The Nation's Favourite Comic Poems
Sophie Hannah reviews The Nation's Favourite Comic Poems
Gwyneth Lewis on The Comic Muse
John Whitworth on Why Funny Poems Never Win Poetry Competitions (illustration by BIFF)
Simon Rae on English Humour
Sian Hughes on Roger McGough and Alfred Brendel
Elaine Feinstein on Pushkin
Harry Clifton on The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945
David Wheatley on Gwyneth Lewis
Sheenagh Pugh on Neil Powell
Alison Fell, Duncan Bush, Jeremy Hooker and Graham Mort
David Kennedy on Anne Carson
Richard Tyrell on John Heath-Stubbs
Roy Hattersley on Simon Artmitage
Jane Holland on David Hart, Dinah Livingstone, Geoffrey Holloway, Evangeline Patterson and Ian Caws
Matt Holland on new pamphlets
Ian McMillann on Binary Myths
Peter Forbes on Simon Rae
James Keery on Glyn Maxwell
John Greening on George Szirtes
Adam Thorpe on David Harsent
Kwame Dawes on Lucille Clifton, Beverliey Braune and Mimi Khalvati
Jenny Joseph on Sounds Good
Neil Powell on John Sewell
Gillian Allnutt on Ann Drysdale and Alison Pryde
Stephen Trousse on Francis Ponge

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