The Poetry Society

Out of the ghetto?

(Volume 81, No 4, 1991)

Poems
John Ashbery, Simon Armitage, Peter Porter, Robert Saxton, Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Redgrove, John Greening, Susan Wicks, Adrienne Brady, Alan Dixon, Annemarie Austin, John Whitworth, Robert Etty, Dickon Abbott, Glyn Maxwell, Anne Ashworth, David Kennedy, Ruth Padel, Chris Bendon, Harry Clifton, Basil du Toit, Jo Shapcott, Sue Stewart, Jeni Couzyn, Keki N. Daruwalla, John Hartley Williams, Toshinko Fujioka, Hagiara Sakutaro, Tariq Latif, John Dixon, Michael Levene, John Latham, Harry Smart, Adrian Mitchell, Wendy Cope.

Articles and Reviews
Joseph Brodsky's US Poet Laureate's address
John Ashbery's Flow Chart reviewed by Robert Crawford
Richard Tyrell: Whither Faber?
Michael Donaghy on Timothy Steele and the New Formalism
Glyn Maxwell on Les Murray's Dog Fox Field
magazines round-up: David Kennedy on Bete Noire, Verse, The North, and The Rialto
Dana Gioia's 'Can Poetry Matter?' article - reactions by Anne Stevenson, John Whitworth, Leo Aylen, Richard Eyre, Sylvia Kantaris, Simon Rae, Dannie Abse, Wendy Cope, Alastair Niven, E.A. Markham
Don Paterson on Christopher Reid, John Fuller and Oliver Reynolds
John Greening on Alison Brackenbury, David Sutton, Neil Powell, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Grevel Lindop, Humphrey Clucas, Michael Henry, Jenny Joseph and Helen Dunmore
Michèle Roberts on Heathcote Williams' Autogeddon
David Dabydeen on George MacBeth and Liz Lochhead
Carol Rumens on Sylvia Plath
John Greening on Donald Hall
Matt Holland on the Cheltenham Festival
Simon Armitage on Adrian Mitchell in performance.

Interview
Robert Bly interviewed by John Horder