The Poetry Society

(Volume 85, No 4, Winter 1995)

Editor
Peter Forbes

Poems
Fleur Adcock, Helen Dunmore, Zsuzsa Rakovszky, Angela Leighton, Selima Hill, Sean O'Brien, Jane Duran, Jenny Joseph, Susan Wicks, Julia Copus, Jonathan Treitel, Nick Drake, K. M. Dersley, Stuart Henson, David Sutton, David Hartnett, David Kennedy, Gillian Allnutt, E. A. Markham, Steve Ellis, Pablo Neruda, Robin Robertson, Peter Reading, Anna Adams, Matt Simpson, Liane Strauss, Olivia Byard, Tobias Hill, W. N. Herbert, Robert Crawford.

Articles and Reviews
Fiachra Gibbons on the Forward Book of Poetry 1996
Sean O'Brien on Hugo Williams
Gwyneth Lewis on bilingualism
Mandelstam Street - from the KGB Literary Archives
Paul Bailey on Auden

Women's Poetry: Sarah Maguire on Germaine Greer; responses to Greer's article in PR 85/3; Carol Rumens on women's poetry of the 1930s; Helen Dunmore on Ruth Fainlight and Michele Roberts; Michael Rosen on Elizabeth Bartlett; Bernard O'Donoghue on Medbh McGuckian

Irish Poetry: Conor Kelly on Michael Hartnett and Paula Meehan; Dennis O'Driscoll on Irish English

Performance Poetry: Matt Holland visits the Cheltenham Festival

Scottish Poetry: Robert Crawford on Scottish linguistic resources

Daisy Goodwin on the Nation's Favourite Poem

Caribbean Poetry: Paula Burnett on James Berry and E. A. Markham

American poetry: Marilyn Hacker's Letter from America; John Whitworth on Jimmy Carter; John Hartley Williams on Mark Doty; Jane Duran on
C. K. Williams; John Greening on Timothy Steele and Peter Kane Dufault

John Whitworth on Gavin Ewart; Lawrence Sail on Donald Davie

Lives of the Poets: Paul Bailey on W. H. Auden; Adrian Mitchell on William Blake; Jan Marsh on William Morris; Nick Drake on Robert
Graves; George Jowett on 'Mr Duffy'

Stephen Burt on Peter Reading
Justin Quinn on Charles Tomlinson
Linda France on new collections
Tim Kendall on Ian Duhig
John Burnside on Bernard O'Donoghue
Bill Turner on first collections.