This Time It's Personal

Vol 99, No 4, Winter 2009

Editor: Fiona Sampson


Carol Ann Duffy and Stephen Raw, from The Manchester Carols

Poems
David Harsent, Five Poems
Linda Gregerson, from The Life Of St Peter
Sigitas Parulskis, Underground Garages
Sean O’Brien, Going Below At Railway Fields
Robin Robertson, Easter, Liguria, Landfall and Albatross In Co. Antrim
Lyubomir Levchev, The Book, The Invisible Tower and Blinding The Sun
J.S. Randall, from Carla
Sam Willetts, August 9th
Peter Sansom, Petar K, 1957-2007
Tomaz Salamun, The Boats
John F. Deane, The Hare
Jacob Polley, The Work
Katherine Gallagher, Soundings
Fred D’Aguiar, Excise
Tracy Ryan, Ramble
Jacques Prévert, Clocking On
Dannie Abse, On Parole and Postscript
Anne Stevenson, Night Thoughts, Half Dreams
Jane Holland, The Ritz In The Seventies
Rita Ann Higgins, He Was No Lazarus
Carol Rumens, Dipthongs
Maureen Duffy, Mammicks
Tim Liardet, from The Storm House
Gerald Dawe, Déjà-vu
Jeri Onitskansky, If This Rings True
Linda Maria Baros, The Lake Of Dyer’s Madder

Full Length Portraits
Anne Stevenson on Anne Sexton
Sean O’Brien on Don Paterson
John Kinsella on Michael Donaghy
Gwyneth Lewis, from A Hospital Odyssey
Wendy Cope on Jonathan Barker

Critical Views
Jane Holland on Hugo Williams and Fred Voss
Tara Bergin on W.D. Snodgrass, Stanley Moss and Wyatt Prunty
Astrid van Baalen on Mahmoud Darwish, Nicole Brossard and Valérie Rouzeau
David Morley on Samuel Menashe, Anise Koltz and Jane Draycott
Alex Smith on Charles Tomlinson and Vuyelwa Carlin
Douglas Houston on Sarah Maguire
Martyn Crucefix on Margaret Atwood, Billy Collins and Rita Dove
Anthony Caleshu on Radu Andreiscu, Trevor Joyce, Leanne O’Sullivan, Laurie Duggan, Giles Goodland, Lisa Dart and Mark Halliday
Nancy Campbell on collaborations by George Szirtes and Sean O’Brien
Jake Elliott on Meirion Jordan, Chris McCabe, Matthew Welton, James Sutherland-Smith and Chris McCully

Album
Peter Blegvad, Writing Life
Ruth O’Callaghan, A Month In Mongolia