The Poetry Society

Important Places: Poetry & Politics

(Volume 77, No 3, Autumn 1987)

Editor

Peter Forbes

Important Places: Poetry & Politics

Tony Harrison: Anno 42

Political Unless Proved Otherwise: Adam Czerniawski, Carol Rumens, Denis O'Driscoll, Edwin Morgan on East European poetry; poems by Irina Ratushinskaya and Carol Rumens

Poems by Gavin Ewart, Esme Hooton, E. A. Markham

Michael Horovitz on Ginsberg and his politics; Jon Stalworthy: a reply

James Green: Spring

David Gascoyne on John Cornford, Christopher Caudwell and the Spanish Civil War

Poems by Dannie Abse, Alison Brackenbury, Michael Walters

Judith Kazantzis wants more political poetry; Carole Satyamurti: Graffiti

Tony Curtis on R. S. Thomas

Poems by John Downar, Maurice Farley, Carol Ann Duffy

Regional Roundup

No 3: The North West including Yorkshire Arts Region, by Graham Mort

Reviews

William Scammell on Seamus Heaney; Neil Corcoran on Paul Muldoon; Anne Stevenson on Peter Redgrove; Martyn Crucefix on James Lasdun and Simon Lapingtnon

Rosemary Hill on Fleur Adcock's anthology of women's poetry

George MacBeth on George Barker; John Whitworth on Wain, Brownjohn, Thwaite, Fuller, Scannell, Ewart; George Szirtes on Carol Rumens

Peter Levi admires Anne Stevenson

Bernard O'Donoghue on Ken Smith, Peter Didsbury, Blake Morrison, Jeremy Reed; Carol Rumens on Tsvetayeva

Performance Page

Martyn Crucefix on Poetry Live

George MacBeth: Up at a Villa, Down in the City

Endstops

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