The Poetry Society Celebrating our centenary

Beauty and Risk

Volume 97, No 1, Spring 2007

Editor: Fiona Sampson

Poems:

David Harsent, Necrophilia
Sean O'Brien, Blue Night, The Them
Medbh McGuckian, Mariola With Angel Choir, Dyad, No.3
Ciaran Carson A Couple Of Words, Hotel Del Mar
David Harsent, from Broken Glass (2)
Tomas Venclova, Lake District, Dunes At Watermill
Moniza Alvi The Veil, Upholding The 'I'
Sarah Wardle, Healing
John F. Deane, Bunnacurry
Jean Sprackland, The Birkdale Nightingale
Peter Porter, Shakespeare's Defeat, What's Playing In Eternity?
Gwyneth Lewis: How To Knit A Poem
    How To Knit A Poem
    Philosophy
    Hypnosis Knitting 
    Memorial Sweater
Amir Or, Plates from The Museum Of Time
Seán Ó Ríordáin, Catology
Stephen Romer, Alas Without Constraint
Oliver Reynolds, Hodge
Pascale Petit, Creation Of The Birds, Julia Butterfly Hill, Treesitter
Arne Johnsson, Three Pieces
Katherine Lucas Anderson, Sunset Clause
Ruth Fainlight, Midland Contemporary, Pain Figure
Frances Leviston,Oilseed Rape, Moon
Carole Satyamurti, House Of Words
John Haynes, from You
Ben Wilkinson, Filter
Nigel McLoughlin, Night Fire
John Sewell, Betrayal
Adam Thorpe, Lifting The Harp

Centrefold:

Marjorie Perloff It Must Change
John Kinsella Lyric and Razo: Activism and the Poet
Alan Brownjohn Tunnels and Daylights

 Reviews & Prizes:

 A Muldoon Roundtable 
    Sean O'Brien – Muldoon as Critic
    Peter McDonald – Horse Latitudes
    Steven Matthews – the poetry and lyrics
Alan Brownjohn on Louis MacNeice
David Morley on John Fuller and Brendan Kennelly
Stephen Knight on Jacob Polley and Jean 'Binta' Breeze
Sarah Crown on Frederick Seidel, Marilyn Hacker and Jane Hirshfield
Charlotte Newman on Australian poetry
Paul Batchelor on Imaginary Republics
Melanie Challenger on Anne Carson and Maxine Kumin
Nigel McLoughlin's Small Press Round-Up
Tamara Fulcher, The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize
The National Poetry Competition 2006

Endpapers:

Editorial
Joumana Haddad Letter from Beirut