Identity
(Volume 96, No 3, Autumn 2006)
Editor: Fiona Sampson
Poems:
Sean O'Brien, from Canto XXVI Of The Inferno Of Dante Alighieri
Robin Robertson, after Tranströmer: Winter's Code, Sketch In October,
From March 1979
Eavan Boland, An Elegy For My Mother In Which She Scarcely Appears
Peter Porter, On The Best Battlefields No Dead Bodies
John Kinsella, from Purgatorio: Up Close:
Canto Of Declamatory Players, Canto Apostrophe Dream Canto 8 – Recurring: Doodenanning Golf Course
David Morley, Songs Of Songs
Greg Delanty, The Wordmen
Mimi Khalvati, Sundays
Tim Liardet, from North Of Everything
Steven Matthews, from Essex Coastal
Andrew Motion, A1 Mechanics
David Harsent, after Cavafy: The Art Of Poetry, At The Tobacconist's Window, Afternoon Sun
Greta Stoddart, Instrument
Allison Funk, Penelope At Home
Mohammad Hoghughi, All With Wings
Nazand Begikhani, Calm
Fred Voss, Starting The Avalanche
Peter McDonald, Against The Fear Of Death
Mustafa Stitou, Coffin
Pascale Petit, Atlas Moth
A A Marcoff, The Hymn Of The Radiant
Jane Holland, Books At Auction
Conversation: Fish and Bicycle
Gagan Gill, Fish
Susan Wicks, Cycling To See The Fish-Ladder
Andrew Johnston, The Cyclist
Judith Kazantzis, The Dose
Kelly Grovier, Rain, Steam, And Speed
Michael Schmidt, Pangur Bàn
Centrefold
John Burnside, Mind the Gap: On Reading American Poetry
Don Paterson, Aphorisms
Hélène Cixous, from Manhattan
"Representative Writing"
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Daljit Nagra, My Father's Dream Of Return
Saradha Soobrayen, As I Am
E.A.Markham, from At Home With Miss Vanesa
Patience Agbabi, from Problem Pages
Parm Kaur, Notes For A Debate On Identity And Representative Publishing
Eva Salzman, Under The Radar
Satish Kumar, Representing The Landscape
Menna Elfyn, Libanus, Y Pwll
Bernardine Evaristo, Mixing Up The Metaphors
Reviews
David Morley on Charles Tomlinson, Peter Redgrove, Philip Gross and
Greg Delanty
Elaine Feinstein on Eavan Boland and Muriel Spark
Matthew Jarvis on Simon Armitage
Michelene Wandor on Vicki Feaver, Selima Hill and Grace Nichols
William Palmer on Ruth Fainlight
Paul Batchelor on Penelope Shuttle
George Szirtes on John Haynes and Tim Liardet
Kit Fan on Chase Twichell, Elizabeth Alexander and Tomaz Salamun Judith Kazantzis on Michelene Wandor, Imtiaz Dharker, Janet Sutherland and Helen Ivory
Nigel McLoughlin's small press round-up
Stephen Knight on Kate Bingham, Tishani Doshi and Jenny Joseph
Endpapers
Chase Twichell Letter from The Adirondacks
Editorial
Contributors
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