One Hundred Years And Counting

Vol 99, No 3, Autumn 2009

Editor: Fiona Sampson

Something Old
Paul Muldoon, Wulf and Eadwacer
Richard Wilbur, Riddle #45
Jane Hirshfield, Riddle #51
Derek Mahon, Durham
Douglas Houston on Leslie Norris
Elaine Feinstein, Cambridge 1949
Elaine Feinstein on forgotten poets
Alan Brownjohn on Ian Hamilton

Something New
Seamus Heaney, An Old Refrain and Derry Derry Down
Jo Shapcott, My Oak
Leontia Flynn, Colette
Peter Porter, Night Economy
J.P. Nosbaum, Ai-suki
Bernard O'Donoghue, Clegs At Totleigh Barton
Alison Brackenbury, May Day
Gwyneth Lewis, Anti-Elegy
Matt Simpson, A Little Candle
Suzanne Batty, The Gerbil And The May Queen
Vahni Capildeo, Lost For Words Haiku
Martha Kapos, The Words
Matthew Sweeney, The Fall
Anthony Thwaite, from An Old Notebook
Roger Moulson, [untitled]
Fleur Adcock, Dragon Talk
Rose Flint, When There Is A Word For Joy
Andrew Jamison, Valerie
Linda Anderson, Kingfisher
Gloria Dawson, from Beirut-Damascus-Beirut
David Head, Skull
Meryl Pugh, Les Ecorchés
Andy Brown, How To Pay Attention
Fani Papageorgiou, Caramel
Nicholas Pierpan, from Another Day At The Office
Roger Caldwell, A Lesson In Survival
Janet Sutherland, Rosa Mundi With Cabbage White
Pat Murgatroyd, The Gift Of Josephine’s Silence
Josephine Dickinson, Scald
Maitreyabandhu, Visitation
Ian McEwen, Scape
Sally Goldsmith, Hare Ghazal
Eleanor Carter reviews Maxine Kumin, Katharine Kilalea and Martha Kapos
Charlotte Newman reviews Greta Stoddart, Emma Jones, Polly Clarke and Paula Meehan
Stephen Moss reviews John Agard, Roger McGough and Adrian Mitchell
Evan Jones reviews Selima Hill and Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Douglas Houston reviews Frank Kuppner, Brendan Kennelly and Paul Farley
Jane Holland reviews Fred D’Aguiar and Dannie Abse

Something Borrowed
Evan Jones, The Eyelids
Boyd Tonkin on Phèdre
Steven Matthews reviews translations by Elaine Feinstein and Seamus Heaney
Atar Hadari reviews C.K. Stead
James Brookes, Robespierre Faces The Scaffold
David Devanny, spell 4 a daimon assistant
David Morley, The Circling Game: Traveller’s Tale
Faith Lawrence, Afterlife
Tara Bergin on Gillian Clarke, Sheenagh Pugh, Christopher Reid and John Hartley-Williams
Helen Mort, After Tarkovsky
Graham Mort, Moon Illusion
Fado. Translations by Fady Joudah, Don Paterson and Carol Rumens
Marilyn Hacker and Deema Shehabi, Diasporenga

Something blue
Neil Rollinson, Christmas In Andalucía
Jenny Joseph, Nothing Like Love
C.K.Williams on the music of poetry and the music of the mind