The Poetry Society

Songlines/Not Just Kids' Stuff

(Volume 82, No 4, 1992)

Poems
Glyn Maxwell, Leon Rosselson, Veronica Dolina, Vladimir Merta, Jackie Kay, Jeremy Reed, Wold Biermann (song); John Mole, Grace Nichols, Adrian Mitchell, Helen Dunmore, James Berry, Kit Wright, John Agard, Duncan Forbes, Philip Gross, Matthew Sweeney, Ian McMillan, Adrian Henri, Ken Smith, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Simon Armitage, Angela Leighton, Ann Dancy, Michael Donaghy, Matt Simpson, Carol Ann Duffy, George Szirtes, Penelope Shuttle, Annemarie Austin, Robert Saxton.

Articles and Reviews
Glyn Maxwell on rock music and poetry
Leon Rosselson on European songwriting
William Scammell on poetry and song
Jeremy Reed on Lou Reed
Jekateriina Young on Russian Guitar Poetry
Neil Powell on Cole Porter, the Gershwins et al
Keith Jafrate on Sissay, Zephaniah, L.K. Johnson
Kevan Johnson on McGough, Hegley, Apples & Snakes and Fran Landesman
Helen Dunmore, Philip Gross on children's poetry
Sally Bacon on The Halesworth School Anthology
Jill Pirrie on the BP Teachers' Poetry Resources Files
John Whitworth on poetry institutions
magazine round-up: Rhinoceros, Gairfish, Krino and Aquarius
Terry Eagleton on Tony Harrison
A Note on Harrison's Square Rounds
Dana Gioia on Wendy Cope
Sheenagh Pugh on U.A. Fanthorpe
Don Paterson on Jeremy Reed
Douglas Houston on nine new collections
Carol Ann Duffy on George Macbeth
Gavin Ewart on Sebastian Barker
James Keery on Geroge Barker and Elizabeth Smart
Dennis O'Driscoll on European poetry in translation
Peter Forbes on Larkin's Letters
Eva Salzman on Peter Redgrove.