Points of View

Volume 98, No 2, Summer 2008

Cover of Poetry Review Vol 98 No 2, image by Dan Hayon

Editor: Fiona Sampson

Poems

Iain Galbraith, In This Way
Thomas Lynch, Red; Epithalamium
John Kinsella, Holus-Bolus; Burning Eyes
Gillian Allnutt, In The Botanic Garden, Oxford
Peter Porter, Birds In The Garden Of The Cairo Marriott ; A Perfect Suicide
John Greening, Dies Irae
Jane Routh, The Field Of Miracle
David Kinloch, Passover
Pauline Stainer, The Blessing; Hieroglyph; Crossing The Snowline
Terry Jones, Reading The Sun
Sinéad Morrissey, History
John Burnside, Rain
Sheenagh Pugh, In The Moment
Matthew Hollis, Wulf
Hanne Bramness, Transfer
Ruth Fainlight, An Ancient Ritual; Last Year’s Sicknesses
Harry Clifton At The Crosskeys
Jeri Onitskansky, The Deer, The Corn, And The Man Beneath The Pines
Elizabeth Smither, Rose Thirds
Tom Lowenstein, from Pre-dynastic Essays – On Some Early Egyptian Terracottas
Judy Gahagan, Resurrection Plant
Brian Henry, Translation
Roger McGough, The Collection; Shearing On The Côte D’Azur
John McAuliffe, Week Two
A. A. Marcoff, the world, & rain
Catherine Smith, Eve Begins Her Sentence At Holloway
Maura Dooley, Crepuscule; The Director’s Cut
Pascale Petit, The Second Husband; Nature Singer
Kearan Williams, Chill
Arthur Boyars, “Prayer gives us an extra chance”
Shanta Acharya, It
Jacqueline Gabbitas, Die Ratten Kommen
Dannie Abse, A Story
Tamar Yoseloff, Mud
Krystyna Milobçedzka, “Until rose is a flower...”

Centrefold

Evan Jones, Portrait (Artist’s Model, Sleeping Nude)
Alan Brownjohn, There And Back
Sophie Hannah, The Point Of Rescue
Aleksandar Prokopiev, Peeper

Reviews

Steven Matthews on John Kinsella’s Sublime and Beautiful
Sarah Crown on Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Tamara Fulcher and Mary Oliver
David Morley on the long poem
Jamie McKendrick on two Selecteds 
Adam Thorpe compares poetry from Gaza and Nazareth
Jane Holland renews the canon
Michael Hulse on Robert Crawford and Matthew Francis 
Sarah Wardle on Austin, Bhatt, Brackenbury, Fanthorpe and Bailey
Tim Liardet rounds up eight recent collections
Melanie Challenger on feminine diction
Tony Frazer explores new poetry in translation
Charlotte Newman on Yoseloff, Griffiths, Simmonds and Garrison
 

Endpapers

Editorial
Péter Zilahy,  Letter from Budapest
Stephen Knight,  A Tick-Box Life
Stephen Yeo, Thank You Auden
Contributors