The Poetry Society

Poets on Poets

(Volume 83, No 4, 1993)

Poems
Michael Hulse, Roger Crawford, Colin Rowbotham, John Gurney, Lara Kovalyova, Wendy Cope, Deryn Rees-Jones, Ken Smith, Robert Crawford, Christopher Pilling, Sujata Bhatt, Keith Turner, Tony Roberts, Kathleen Jamie, Eleanor Cooke, Alison Brackenbury, Adele Geras Angela Leighton, Connie Bensley, Paul Groves, Graham Mort, Stuart Henson, Helen Dunmore, John Powell Ward, Chris Bendon, Aileen La Tourette; Neil Powell, Michael J. Revell, Anne Stevenson, John Mole

Articles and Reviews
Seamus Heaney on Frost
Peter Porter on Auden
Stephen Romer on Eliot
Glyn Maxwell on Auden's libretti
A.T. Tolley on the 1930s
John Lucas on the 1920s
Elaine Feinstein on 20th Century Russian Poetry
Poets on Poets tour dates
Anthony Quinn on the Faber Book of Movie Verse
Philip French on poetry and film
John Whitworth: poetry on tv and radio
George Szirtes and Ken Smith debate public poetry
Robert Crawford on the world of little magazines
Andrew Swarbrick on Philip Larkin's manuscripts
Clive Wilmer on James Fenton
Philip Gross on Selima Hill
Patricia Craig on Sixty Women Poets
Eva Salzman on Michael Hofmann
Helen Dunmore on Catherine Byron, Sheenagh Pugh, Annemarie Austin, Landeg White, Paul Violi, Mairi MacInnes
Hichael Hulse on three translations
Ian Gregson on Simon Armitage
Kevan Johnson on Iain Bamforth, John Gallas, Killarney Clary, Jeni Couzyn, Chris Bendon
Michael Horovitz on Fred D'Aguiar..

Announcement: This issue announced on its back cover the list of New Generation Poets (chosen by the team of judges - Michael Longley, Vicki Feaver, James Wood, Margaret Busby and John Osborne - chaired by Melvyn Bragg): Moniza Alvi, Simon Armitage, John Burnside, Robert Crawford, David Dabydeen, Michael Donaghy, Carol Ann Duffy, Ian Duhig, Elizabeth Garrett, Lavinia Greenlaw, W. N. Herbert, Michael Hofmann, Mick Imlah, Kthleen Jamie, Sarah Maguire, Glyn Maxwell, Jamie McKendrick, Don Paterson, Pauline Stainer, Susan Wicks. These poets were featured in the subsequent issue of Poetry Review (Volume 84, No 1), which is entirely sold out.