The Poetry Society

New Maps of World Poetry

(Volume 78, No 1, Spring 1988)

Editor

Peter Forbes

New Maps of World Poetry

The Acceleration of the Poet: Joseph Brodsky interviewed

Primo Levi: Two poems translated by Ruth Feldman

Les A. Murray's The Daylight Moon reviewed by Peter Scupham; Two new poems

Miroslav Holub: Super Aesop, translated by Jarmila and Ian Milner

Derek Walcott's The Arkansas Testament reviewed by Fred d'Aguiar, Poem

Dennis O'Driscoll on Adam Czerniawski's anthology of Polish poetry; two poems by Ivan V. Lalic translated by Francis R. Jones; Translation questionnaire; Alan Brownjohn on Tomas Transtromer and Bo Carpelan' Carol Rumerns on Daavid McDuff's Tsvetayeva; Natalya Gorbanevskaya; a poem translated by Daniel Weissbort; Tow poems by Grete Tartler, translated by Fleur Adcock

Catherine Byron: Letter from South China

John Welch on South Asian poetry; Bernard O'Donoghue on poetry from New Zealand

Scottish Roundup

Douglas Dunn's Here and There; Robert Crawford surveys the Scottish poetry scene; Poems by Maureen Macnaughton and Iain Bamforth; Edwin Morgan reviews recent Scottish collections; Bill Turner on Elma Mitchell; Poems by W. N. Herbert and Hugh Macpherson' Literary Landmark; Gavin Ewart and Nicola Jennings on MacDiarmid

William Scammell on recent American poetry; Michael Donaghy: Poem

Poems

Michael Foley, Selima Hill, William Scammell, Kevin crossely-Holland, Shannan Peckham

Reviews

Lawrence Sail on E. J. Scovell's Collected Poems; John Whitworth on Roger McGough, Ken Smith, Ian Hamilton, C. H. Sisson, Peter Porter; Martyn Crucefix on David Constantine; Hon Greening on Jon Silkin and Gladys Mary Coles; Anne Stevenson: Poem; Bill Turner on Colin Rowbotham

Performance Page

Allon Reich on Jonathan Miller's production of Racine's Andromache, translated by eric Korn

Endstops

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