MUTE
POETRY, SPEAKING PICTURES
Peter Gillies on Leonard Barkan
BAKER,
BENTLEY, BRIGGS
Steve Spence reviews the Bs
SURRENDER
TO BEFORE
prose poems by Frank de Canion
REVOLUTIONS
IN TIME & SPACE
David Annwn
on Women's Experimental Poetry
in Britain
NOT
SEEING THE WOOD FOR THE TREES
new titles by Anthony Mellors, sean burn & Peter Larkin
WORTH
THE RISK
Signs of the Sisterhood and Porterloo
ITEMS
Tom Jenks is endlessly inventive, says Steve
Spence
I
STRUCTURE THIS POEM LIKE A STORY
Giles Goodland's Ladybird, Locust, Leech
and Greenfly
AN AGE OF OVAL-SHAPED ROMANCE PICTURES
new poems by Ian Seed
PEOPLE
ARE STRANGE
Steve Spence on Ian McMillan and
Hannah Silva
OF
THIS WE MUST AND OF THIS WE SHOULD
Ghost Elements I-IV
GASHED & IMPROVISED
WALL OF SOUND
Paul Hawkins never paid-in or index-linked
LEAVING
THE 80s
The Waterboys and Cabaret Voltaire boxed
up
THE
RAPTURE UNCHARTED
Scott Thurston on Eléna Rivera
FROM
THE HORSE'S MOUTH
Peter Gillies on Michael Peppiatt's Interviews
with Artists
GREATER
OR LESSER MOVEMENT
David Hart on Gillian Allnutt
PALANQUIN,
CABRIOLET, SCHOONER
Guy Russell grapples with six new books
HERE
COMES EVERYBODY
Alasdair Paterson picks up his Knives,
Forks & Spoons
THIRTEEN
WAYS OF LOOKING
AT DAVID GRUBB'S WAYS OF LOOKING
a review poem
A POSTHUMOUS MUSE REVISITING
Robert Sheppard's Arrival
ONE
HAND CLAPPING
Robert Lax's marvellous poems
AROUND
THE BLOCK TOO OFTEN
new books by three American poets
TRAINS
OF THOUGHT
Travel Songs and Exeter Moments
A BATTLE OF WORDS
David Hart hits the streets
with Raymond Quenau and Cheran
MESSIAEN GONE GLOSSALALIC & MANIC
Robert Sheppard on CDs by
Julie Tippets& Martin Archer and Juxtavoixes
OVER THE BRIDGE AND ENJOY THE RIDE
Steve Spence on three new poetry books
FORTY TONGUES, FORTY THROATS
David Kennedy on Juxtavoices' CD
A
WELL CONSTRUCTED HOUSE
Simon Curtis' selected poems
CEASELESS CURIOSITY
Robert Sheppard on
Andrew Duncan editing Allen Fisher
ALMOST HOLY
Bobby Parker is standing on the roof
DISTANCES BETWEEN THE SOUNDS OF OWLS
Nathan Thompson has ripples in the blindspot
LANGUAGE
IS NEVER USED UP
David Hart reviews three new titles
GOING WITH THE FLOW
Steve Spence
on Peter Dent,
Maxine Chernoff and Tim Allen
SEASON AND MARVEL
Michael Lee Rattigan is unconcealed
THE ELOQUENCE OF THE APPLE
AND THE LANGUAGE OF WOLVES
Todd Swift and Kim Moore reviewed
'WHERE IS FANCY BRED?'
David Kennedy on Thomas Hardy and Desire
NOSTALGIC, ANNOYED, SNIFFY,
DELIGHTED, WHATEVER
Airmail, The Letters of Robert Bly and
Tomas Transtromer
FEAR THE MORAL NEBULAE
A.C. Evans on Daniel Y. Harris
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Archive
AN
ASSAULT UPON THE CITADEL
Robert Sheppard's Warrant Error
FROM THE BOOK
OF RANDOM ACCESS
Alan Baker is crossing the great water
SOME
STATIC HAS TAKEN HOLD
Simon Perchik needs more batteries
NOAH
NEVER RESTS
Peter Gillies reviews The Ark
Builders
THERE
IS WAY TOO MUCH
ALLITERATION IN THE SEA
James McLaughlin is having language
problems
RECTANGLES NOT COTTONREELS
Phil Maillard is running full
LONDON: GHOST AUTOPSY
from Nick Scammell's sequence
HEY, DEAN YOUNG!
Tom Craze is experiencing a sugar
low
ANIMALS ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS
"I wish he had
written much more."
REMARKABLE
Botsotso.
An anthology of contemporary
South African poetry
IAN McKEEVER AND ALAN GOUK
Rupert Loydell tries to get the overall picture
THE BACKWOODSMAN
Martin Caseley on Robert Frost on campus
POETRY AS A MIRROR OF THE NATION
David Kennedy reviews Voice Recognition
NEVER SITTING STILL FOR LONG
Steve Waling
on four new collections
KNOWLEDGE OF TREES
Angela Topping
on Peter Street
PABLO NERUDA WANTED TO
John Levy talks
to spiders
SETTING THE IMAGINATION TO WORK
Rob Mackenzie is left feeling slightly lyrical
YOU
ARE ALIVE & CAN THINK
despite the evidence, says Martin
Stannard
A MODE OF MIND
David Hart tussles with more translations
A PASSAGE TO MORE THAN INDIA
Phil Maillard on John Gimblett
BLOGGER & BLATHER
Bill Greenwell doesn't get it
UPBEAT & DOWNBEAT
Betsy Sholl & Kevin Goodan
WHAT IS A POET WITHOUT A WINDOW?
Lauren Witts
looks out
REINVENTING THE LANDSCAPE
Chris McCully & Matthew
Welton
MEDITATIONS, SPECULATIONS, FRAGMENTS
Bill Greenwell
on 3 new collections
THE SEA'S NOT LEVEL
declares Glenn
R. Frantz
UNSETTLED OR INDEFINITE
James McLaughlin
gets experimental
AS IF
Brandon Roy's Unusual
Zoo
NO
TRUTHS LIKE THE OLD TRUTHS
Gary Boswell on
Adrian Mitchell & John Agard
MY
OWN DEAD & NAKED POET
thinks Mark Goodwin
KEEPING
SALT SOLVENT
Phil Brown on Luke
Kennard & Tom Chivers
TALKING ABOUT ART
Recent art
books, July 2009
A NOTE ON PROCESS
by George Ttoouli
SECRET MEANINGS
Ben Parker on 3 new collections
THE MARMALADE MY FRIEND IS ALL ON ME
confesses Nathan Thompson
NOWHERE'S FAR
Phil Bowen is strangely contemporary
SLIPPERY
STUFF
Marina Tsvetaeva's New Selected Poems
THE PALACE OF OBLIVION
George Ttoouli on Peter Davidson
DON'T COUNT ON DECENCY
The Chronicles
of Dave Turnip
A
RIVER MIGHT EMERGE AS A METAPHOR
Jesse Garrick's Storied
Rivers
LANGUAGE
AND THINGS
Steve Spence on
Giles Goodland
THE
OLD DEVIL
R.S. Thomas'
letters
INTERVIEWS & OVERVIEWS,
BIOGRAPHIES & BULLSHIT
Recent music
books, June 2009
TWENTY
MINUTES IN MANHATTAN
Michael Sorkin's
New York
A
GUIDE TO THE PERPLEXED?
Steve Spence on Philip Kuhn
DID WE SEE WHAT WE THOUGHT WE SAW?
Peter Dent skips the clear out
VISIBLE,
AUDIBLE, TRUE OR FAITHFUL?
Larissa Miller & Augustus Young
MEMOS
TO SELF
A is for anything you want it to
be
FAITH & TRUST
Gardening with Cole Swensen
THE
TASK IN HAND
David Hart on new translations
HOWLING
IN THE DARK
at The Migraine Hotel
SOMETHING FROM NOTHING
new poems by Daniel Y Harris
PROBLEMS WITH HUMANS
Adrienne Rich's essays
DEFLATED
EGO 6
Paul Sutton on Paul Sutton
ANONYMOUS INTRUDER
Nathan Thompson on Ian Seed
AN INTERVIEW WITH JUSTIN HAYNES
Canadian jazz and more...
'THIS IS A HANDHELD TEXT RECORDING'
new poems by Alex Houen
ECHO & DECAY, SPIT & CRACKLE
Recent Listening April 2009
A BRIEF
FORAY INTO GARDENING
poems by Ben Stainton
DELUSIONS
OF COSMIC DESTINY
A.C. Evans gets to grips
with Invented Knowledge
KINDS OF LITERARY MAGAZINES
Richard Kostelanetz on editorial integrity
THIRD WISH WASTED
Geoff Stevens on Roddy Lumsden
THE
RULER OF PLANET X
Cliff Yates is lost in the ink of space
SO WHAT'S THERE
TO FEAR
DOWN HERE?
Greg Lawless shakes off the smog
JUDITH BISHOP'S EVENT
reviewed by Rob Mackenzie
UNTIL BLIND PANIC COMES
P Viktor's familiar wound
PETER DENT'S HOT SPOTS
Revelation comes in a cardboard box
SKOULDING & VOIGT
Jane Routh gets Urban/Rural
DEFLATED EGO 5
John Gimblett
on John Gimblett
THE
OBSERVER IS A NECESSARY
PART OF THE LANDSCAPE
as far as
Aidan Semmens can see
LYRIC
BLASTING FOR STARTERS
Carrie Etter
and Lisa Samuels
DEFLATED
EGO 4
Martin Stannard
on Martin Stannard
DOMESTIC
KNOWLEDGE
Jason
Ranon Uri Rotstein reviews
DEFLATED
EGO 3
Nathan
Thompson on Nathan Thompson
NOTHING LEFT TO PROVE
Alan
West on Bruce Cockburn
DEFLATED EGO 2
David
Kennedy on David Kennedy
AT THE FLOATING POST OFFICE
Ghulam
told me he had a story to tell
A DIVIDED COLLECTION
Thomas
Kinsella's Prose Occasions
TREES
PALE IN KNOT BUT
NOWHERE IN COOPED FLUX
new prose
poetry by Peter Larkin
LEAVE
YOUR CARD ON THE TABLE
Introducing
Mr Cribs
DEFLATED
EGO 1
Ira Lightman
on Ira Lightman
THE BOOK OF BELLS AND CANDLES
Norman Jope
is back
HOMO
DOMESTICA
William Oxley
on Laskey, Ward & Walpert
AURORA
CAUGHT NAPPING
John Gimblett
is warming his feet
in the snow
WANTING
TO MAKE COMMON CAUSE
Alan Morrison reviewed
WEST END
SURVIVAL KIT
Jeremy Reed is in control
A LITTLE BOOK OF HOURS
John
F Deane's new book
WHO NEEDS DRUMS?
John
Gimblett vs Jean Martin
NINETEEN NIGHTS IN
A MOUNTAIN OF FEATHERS
MEANS NOTHING TO ME
Nathan
Thompson on three new titles
TWO
AND A HALF PAGES OF OPTIMISM
Ross Sutherland and Tamsin Kendrick
YOU GOTTA HAVE FAITH
Martin
Stannard is the George Michael of poetry
A SMALL PORTION OF LOSTNESS
Martin
Caseley gives up
AN INTRODUCTION TO
THE INTELLIGENCE OF PARROTS
Steve
Spence gets feather-brained
THE
PROSE POEM IS ALIVE & WELL
Ian
Seed can prove it
SOME
AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPES
Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw
SOMETHING
ELSE
Mark
Goodwin's continuing profesional
development
A LIKENESS YOU DARE NOT DISOWN
Mathew
Mead's Selected Poems
IT'S NO LONGER DONE
Tamara
Fulcher is trying to shock
SWEET DUST & GROWLING LAMBS
John
Gimblett on Phil Maillard
SPONGY AIN'T A TYPO LOVER
Richard
Makin's Rift Designs
WHAT DOES A POETRY READER WANT?
Bill
Greenwell reviews five new
titles
ABOUT BLOODY TIME
Simon
Jenner's polymath qualitie
THE
EDITOR'S PICKS 2008
STILL
LIFE, MORANDI
Mark Carson's word portrait
MISSING
THE BOAT
John Daniel's new book
CHANGING THE
SETTINGS
Steve Spence on Tim Allen
SEEDS OF FIRE
Making Things Happen
SIGNORELLI SAYS
Bob Garlitz on David Kirby
WHAT THE AU PAIR DIDN'T TAKE
Martin Stannard reviews
five new books
SCOTT
WALKER AUDITIONS
FOR THE PART OF A GOD
new prose poems by Norman Jope
IMPOSITIONS
OF AVOIDANCE
Matthew Howard's Twists
THE
GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME
reviewed by Matt Simpson
THE WORM OF DOUBT
Anatoly Kudryavitsky is in
the classroom of reason
SOMETIMES IT'S SIMPLE
five sonnets by Camille Martin
COMPROMISE IS A POSTURE
Mike Ferguson likes to spam a lot
AVOIDING
THE SELF DESTRUCT
Nathan Thompson's new book
CHRIS ANDREWS WOULDN'T LIVE
ANYWHERE ELSE
much can be inferred from blinks and twitches
TOUCH ME HERE AND HERE
The Erotics of Geography
OPTIMISM
AND PROPHECY
Nathaniel Tarn's The Embattled Lyric
A HYMN TO CONTORTED BEAUTY
Blaugast: A Novel of Decline
IDENTITY
THEFT
Stephen Mooney's District & Central Line
Project
SINGING IN THE ORCHARD
Andy Brown
on Brigit Pegeen Kelly
HAUNTED BY THE PAST & FUTURE
John Welch
and D.S. Marriott reviewed
CON BRIO
new books
from Tim Thorne and Paul Stubbs
RITE
OF RETURN FOR JAMES BROWN
David Annwn's
jazz-spun purple plexity
DELIGHTFUL CLOCKWORK
Michael C.
Boyko's The Hour Sets
IF YOU ARE SITTING UNCOMFORTABLY...
James Mc
Laughlin is not a bad person
IMAGE DISTURBANCE
Mark Goodwin
is evolving behind cardboard
LAYING SIEGE TO AN EMPTY FORTRESS
John Welch's Collected
Poems
WHY
WE DO WHAT WE DO
David Grubb is
remembering to forget
JOE
BOSWELL IS CURRENTLY READING
AS
IF BY SUGGESTION AND NOT BY WISH
short prose by
Martin Stannard
ECHO
OBJECTS & THE EVIL
On the right
track? asks David Hart
GONE
WRONG IN TRANSLATION
Pilot Johann
the Carousel Horse
A
RUSH OF FEELING
Jay Ramsay's Out
of Time
THE
RAIN IS THE RAIN IS THE RAIN
Matt Fallaize
is dieting on silence
HATE
WAS APT FOR THE JERKING SLIDE
Suneel Mehmi's jettisoned emotion
TIME
NOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN WAY
Ian Seed's
'Composition'
DISAPPOINTING PSALMS
Brian Clements'
righteous anger
PEN BETWEEN MY TEETH
Tony Lucas' new
poems
SENDING
OUT A DOVE
Ackland, McCully
and Lucas reviewed
MATTER
OF FACT WONDERING
Andy Brown on
Annie Dillard
A
NICE GREEN BOOK
lots of animals
in it too
FUCK MODERNISM
Of course
Paul Sutton read
George Orwell in his youth
Chapter
15: NAKED TEA
Chuck Woww corners Burroughs
ON THE RIGHT PATH
Gerry McGrath's A to B
THAT
SORT OF BOOK
Dreaming of Walls Repeating Themselves
BRILLIANT!
Bloodaxe's In Person anthology
RADIUS
OF LIGHT
Sarah Law and Joshua Auerbach
walk in circles
DIAL-UP FOR SOLO VOICE
and
other new works by Rebecca
Eddy
LIVES THAT HAVE A CLAIM ON US
Angela
Topping's new poetry collection
THE
EBB AND FLOW
Andy
Brown's storm berm
AN OBSESSIVE EYE
Rupert
White reviews The St
Ives Artists
BOM
CHUCKA WAH WAH
from South
of Suburbia
BOB
THE BARD
Yoik!
THE
LIVING AND THE DEAD
Kelvin
Corcoran's Backward
Turning Sea
FOUND AND LOST IN TRANSLATION
three
new books of Chinese
poetry
LAYER BY LAYER
Stephen
Romer's The Yellow
Studio
IGGY POP ON THE ROOF OF 7-11
and
other poems by Jennifer
Olds
LEARNING YOUR LETTERS
The
Epistles of Mark Jarman
GRACE & GOOD
WORKS
Sylvia
Townsend Warner's legacy
JUST ANSWER THE QUESTIONS!
Stride
Publications R.I.P.
LATE READING FOR LENT
four
new Shearsman titles
HIDES, HYPHENS AND A HARE
pamphlets
and a shiny paper paperback
THE
GOOD POLEMICIST
Kym
Martindale on Iain Bamforth
STRANGE
ROUTES APPEAR IN THE
MUSIC
Keith
Jafrate's New
CALL ME JADED BUT...
Rupert
Loydell's recent reading
MODERNISMS
mumbo-jumbo
artspeak and color as
field
from WARRANT ERROR
Robert
Sheppard is off the
books
WEARING THEIR ORIGINS ON THEIR SLEEVES
new
books by James Berry
and Kei Miller
ANSWERS
ON A POST CARD PLEASE
new
poetry by Nathan Thompson
HUMANITY AND SKILL
three
new poetry collections
LOVELY THINGS WHICH PASS
Charlotte
Mew's Selected
Poems
GIVEN VOICES
James
Harpur's poems & translations
reviewed
THE GRACE OF AFTERMATH
four
poems by Anna
Reckin
ON THE MAP OF SELDOM MENDED
Peter
Dent is having
a copyright
clear-out
I HAVE A GOD I CALL ALMANAC
Elizabeth
Barbato is
sick of being
sung to
ONLY
VISITING THIS
PLANET
Larry
Norman R.I.P.
IN ANOTHER LAND
Alan
West
remembers
Larry
Norman
NEVER MIND THE DEVIL
IT'S SKILL THAT'S IN THE DETAIL
Jane
Routh
reviews
three
new
titles
MEMORY TONES
new
poems
by Tim
Fletcher
EXILE AND WANDERING
Bei
Dao's
essays
CROSS CURRENTS & SHIFTING BOUNDARIES
New
Poetries
IV reviewed
THE MOVEMENT
by
Phil
Terry
THE UNSETTLEDNESS
David
Hart
on Celan
PASTS, PRESENTS & FUTURES
Reviews
of new
books
by Peter
Robinson,
Gregory Woods and Cliff Ashby
from AURORA
a
novel
by Carolyn
Hart
JOE BOSWELL IS CURRENTLY READING
David
Shrigley & Richard
Dawkins
THROUGH
THE
PRISM
Catherine
Hales
on Waterwork
COMPLEX & RANDOM
Bill
Greenwell
on Beat
Sound,
Beat
Vision
TOO
REFLECTIVE,
TOO
FIERCE,
TOO
ENGAGING
Meredith
Andrea
on Adrienne
Rich
LOOKING AT GLASS CEILINGS
Ira
Lightman
on Jeffrey
Wainwright
on Geoffrey
Hill
THE MIND AS LIBRARY
William
Oxley
on
Jorge
Luis
Borges
THE
RESUSCITATOR
AS
A YOUNG
VOLCANO
Alan
Halsey
on
A.
David
Moody
on
Ezra
Pound
CONTINGENCIES OF LIGHT
Robin
Lindsay
Wilson & Simon
Turner
INVITED
IN
TO
AN
EXCLUSION
David Caddy is The Man in Black
OF
WIND & SHEER
AIR
ALONE
Mike Barlow on Gyrfalcon
MARKING
HIS TERRITORY
Jane Seal on J.P. Greene
PINWHEELS,
ELECTRIC SHEARS
AND PAINTED WOODEN WHEELBARROWS
Gregory
Lawless waits out the wind
MAPPING OUT THE TERRAIN
New
artistic and literary guidebooks
NO CONSOLATION AT ALL
Adam
Burbage is on the lip of a
hangover
STUFFED
WITH STRANGENESS
Valeria
Melchioretto's The
End of Limbo
RUMINATIONS & ODD
CORNERS
David
Hart's recent reading
FRAGMENTS
AND IRRELEVANCIES
Richard
Price's Greenfields
WHAT'S WRONG WITH
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Richard
Kostelanetz doesn't
do lying
GRUMPY & TWITCHY
Alan West shares Zoe Brigley's secret
IVF, TROTSKY, HAZARD & PROSPECT
Meredith Andrea reviews three new books
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Edward Thomas's Poets
BEST
OF 2007
The Editor's picks
A
DRIVE-THRU RELIGIOUS ENCOUNTER
new poems by Iain Britton
A SEEDBED OF IDEAS
Maurice Oliver cycles up the Eiffel Tower
OH YOU DO NOT
KNOW
Sarah Law likes to cut things fine
DOGWOOD TREMBLING AT THE PANE
James Midgley is surprised and happy
UGLY HELL GAPE
NOT
Sean O'Brien and Dennis O'Driscoll reviewed
SWALLOW MY
TONGUE
Sophie Mayer is onomastic
SPACE INVADER
Meredith Andrea and The End of Limbo
DARK
WINDOWS TO A COUNTRY NEVER SEEN
Ian Seed is purloined
STRIPPED
Angela Readman's porn stars & pin-ups
WHAT TIME DOES THE WRONG TRAIN LEAVE?
ask
Glenn
R.
Frantz
I'VE POSTED A LETTER TO GOD
declares
Rodney Wood
FORMER FRIENDS AND ENEMIES
Richard Kostelanetz exposes
Joseph Epstein's "friendship"
SHORT REVIEWS OF RECENT TITLES
Giles
Goodland gets stuck in
NATIONAL LITERATURES
Irish
and Polish writers on
writing
FIRST IMPRESSIONS LAST
Mike
Barlow on Richard Howard
STRONG WRITING.
SHARED WRITING.
Saints
of Hysteria reviewed
THE DAY'S FINAL BALANCE
Michael
Peverett on Peter Riley
A FLY IN EVERYBODY'S OINTMENT
new
poems by Peter Dent
ANXIOUS
MUSIC
Alan
West on April Ossmann
DANCE MOVES IN DRY ICE
Nathan
Thompson's 'Water Cycles'
A FORM OF FAKERY
Robert
Garlitz on Embryos
and Idiots
SHARING THE EXPERIENCE
Annie
Clarkson is in the Land
of Trees
A FAIR AMOUNT OF COMMON GROUND
Spencer
Selby & M.T.C.
Cronin
A
KAFKAESQUE CLOWN
Talk
Poetry reviewed
VOICE LINES & FORGOTTEN SOURCES
new
poems by Andrea Moorhead
THE SAKE OF WORDS IN ORDER
Hannah
Silva walks back into
density
A BIT OF A SONG AND A DANCE
Lots
of new Salt titles reviewed
and William Cirocco too
ROUND THE RUGGED ROCKS
A visit to Blaneau Ffestiniog
THE TRUTH BEYOND THE EQUAL SIGN
Karen
Solie's Modern & Normal
MIXED MESSAGES
Peter
Dent is waiting for the
liveliest spark
SITES
UNSEEN
Peter
Gillies on Landscape & Vision
WISE COMMENTS & REVEALING MOMENTS
David
Hart on Don't
Start Me Talking
FROM THRILLING TO THRILLED
John
Mingay on four new
poetry book
FOUR FIRST-TIME FULL COLLECTIONS
new
Salt and Shoestring
titles
YES, I HAVE HELD THE PLATONIC EGG-BEATER
Bob
Hicok is irrefutably
mutable
THE
NAUSEA OF CONSTANT ROTATION
Paul
Sutton slept with his
head in a vice
POEMS FROM GUANTANAMO
reviewed
by David H.W. Grubb
SARAH LAW REVIEWS...
'Three
weird sisters in wayward
linguistic practice'
LAYING
SOMETHING DOWN
Matt Simpson on Jim Burns
OUTSIDE IN
an interview with author Greg Bottoms
UTTER LUMINOSITY
Sarah Law on Lisa Lubasch
NIGHTMARE
SCENARIOS
A.C. Evans on horror cinema
ATMOSPHERE & EFFECT
Recent Pfmentum CDs
SWALLOWING
THE VAST ALPHABET
New poems by Mark Goodwin
WILCO'S SKY
BLUE SKY
Matt Bryden believes
THE
LADY MISSIONARY
Good news for Gail Dendy
THE
GREENER MEADOW
Luciano Erba's new collection reviewed
BACK, HAMBURGER, ALLEN, DISCH
Matt Simpson says it like it is
PARALLEL TEXTS
Mike Barlow on recent translations
NO ONE BUT ONE IS LEAVING, NOT JUST YET
New poems by David Sergeant
FROM
WALES TO MACAO
Two new Cinnamon Press titles
DUB IN LONDON
& other poems by Gregory Betts
from HONESYUCKLE
a sequence by Sandra Tappeden
OUR LAST STOP BEFORE MODERNISM
poems by William Watkin
A BUSY HOUSE OF VOICES
Brian Ferneyhough's Shadowtime
WOAD, WELD AND MADDER
new poems by Janet Sutherland
JUST HOW MANY POSTMODERN
POETS
ARE THERE IN FLANDERS ANYWAY?
Phil Terry reviews three Shearsman titles
OBJECTS MADE TO FIT
Rebecca Horn's films
JEREMY TWILL
in conversation with Phil Borch
from ABANDONED STORIES
new collaborative poems
THE GESTURE OF NARRATIVE
Susan M. Schultz's And Then
Something Happened
IN MEMORY OF THE ANTI-POEM
Robert Sheppard
A SUBVERSIVE TRIUMPH
Dean Young's Elegy on Toy Piano
MURMURING LOGIC
Megan
Johnson's The Waiting
DAYS OF FIRE AND FLOOD
Chrissy
Banks' new collection reviewed
TIME TRAVEL
Andrew
Poppy on Zang Tuum Tumb.
An interview.
WALL OF WORDS
new poems by Iain Britton
WATER WALL
The tide crawls toward David Chorlton
A WHOLE NEW WAY
TO A DIFFERENT WORLD
Duggan and Jackson reviewed
FIREWORKS!
Martin Stannard lights the touchpaper
IN THE PSYCHIATRIC MUSEUM
new poems by Tim Houghton
GRRRRR....
Abi Curtis growls at Brian Louis Pearce
THE PETER DENT POETRY TEST
Martin Stannard just about passes
FOUR THEORIES ON WHY GOD
SINKS HIS HEAD IN MY SPAGHETTI
and other poems by Arlene Ang
WHAT GIVES
Sarah Law's Visiting Hours
THE RIVER AND THE CATHEDRAL
New poems by Andy Brown
DIFFERENT STROKES
new books by Tim Kendall,
Paul Stubbs and Mike Barlow
SHADOWS
and other prose poems by Ian Seed
VARYING ATTITUDES
Barbara Guest's The Red Gaze
LIKE THE POWER OF A JET
Who on earth were After the Fire?
THE
ROADS BEST TRAVELED
Andy Brown reviews David Kennedy
MY DUMB MOON-FAVOURED MUSE
new poems by Sandra Tappenden
THE GOOD THE BAD & THE
UGLY
two more from bluechrome
LOOK OUT INDEED
Gary Snyder by Jane Routh
AN
INTERVIEW WITH THE EDITOR
Brian Louis Pearce talks to Rupert Loydell
FISHBONE
and other poems by Gary Langford
WAYWARD THINKING
Christian Hawkey's Book of Funnels
ANOTHER SUBURBAN CUL-DE-SAC
Mike Ferguson's American dream
INSCRIPTIONS IN A BROKEN
TIME
excerpts from Jon Thompson's sequence
A BRIEF HISTORY
OF ENGLAND
David Thomson is back from Venice
DANISH
PASTRY GIRLFRIEND
new
poems by Martin Stannard
FIVE
NEW ANVIL PRESS TITLES
reviewed by Jeffrey Side
RE: VISIONS OF BEAUTY
A long poem by Dianne Darby
PARALLEL UNIVERSE
Tomaz Salamun reviewed
POEMS MAKING PROSE
by Ira Lightman
NOT DOING IT RIGHT
Tom Paulin's translations
SURPRISE,
SURPRISE
Two new anthologies
WORDSWORTH'S
SOCKS
'Before there
was...'
TROUBLE
IN THE LEAN-TO
new books
from Joel Lane and Ian Pople
OTHER
LANGUAGES,
OTHER WORLDS
Two translation
titles
BOSS
BOOKS
Dean Young
and Campbell McGrath -
Alan Corkish asserts himself
FIRESIDE READING
Six women poets reviewed
LANGUAGE IS LANGUAGE
Andy Brown reviews
Rosmarie Waldrop & Susan Howe
from
LE FANU'S GHOST
new poems
by Gavin Selerie
NEARING
THE FAR EDGE OF NEVER
Ryan Barker
approaches
FALLING
OUT WITH THE GODS
the ahadada
reader
READING
PROUST
IN THE LAUNDERETTE
Rob Stanton
does the wash
rob
mclennan
an in-depth
interview
NOCTURNE
and other
new poems
by rob mclennan
DREAM IS HEADFILL
poems by Andrew Bailey
FREE RUNNING SENSES
Kelvin Corcoran's Unpainted Hiltons
THAT
FEELING YOU HAD
BEFORE THE KETTLE BOILED
Rob Mackenzie may be the chosen one
REALITY
TEST
Redell Olsen's Secure Portable Space
THE COMPLETE KENNETH REXROTH
Martin Stannard sings praises
HERE SHE COMES AGAIN
Sylvia Plath is back!
BIRDS INSIDE SILENCES
Elizabeth Burns reviews David Grubb
INTRODUCING THE HOBO POETS
John Mingay does the honours
ROBERT LOWELL FED THROUGH
A WENDY COPING MACHINE
Dorothea Tanning and Fanny Howe reviewed
NEUTRAL-DENSITY LINES
prose by Anthony Kane Evans
IN THE WORLD'S NIGHT
Jay Ramsay's Midnight Sun
HOW NOT TO...
Peter Finch and Mat Coward
ONE ANOTHER
John Mingay reviews Michael Coady
WHAT'S
GOING ON OVER THERE THEN?
Another American Round-Up
WHO? WHAT?
WHY?
Alan Dent's compressed epic
ANOTHER
BOB DYLAN BOOK
considered by Matt Bryden
THE WORD 'ANTHOLOGY'
Martin Stannard has trouble
just Being Alive
NEVER
SAY TUNDRA
Paul Batchelor is
on the permafrost
THIS
KETTLE IS GOOD
FOR ONE MORE CUP OF LIGHT
says Edward
Gates
SHAKE HANDS
with Jesse Ferguson's poems
THE
PLOT IS AFOOT
in Ian Seed's prose poems
DIFFERENT MODELS OF OBLIVION
Allen Fisher, Robert Sheppard
& Rachel Blau DuPlessis reviewed
PERCEPTIONS OF LANDSCAPE
Yann Lovelock reviews Geoffrey Squires
USE A WEDGE
Bob Arnold is in a foul mood
thanks to the election results
STAR GAZING
Matt Simpson is in deep
WELL
HOUSE LETTERS
Neil Annat's pub poems
PERMISSION TO BE BORED
Martin Stannard
loses the will to live
ENRICHING
THE SPIRIT
Paul
Dunmall and Full Circle
THEREMIN
new
poems by
Malgorzata Kitowski
THAT
SHEFFIELD SOUND
Martin
Archer's ringtones
INHABITING
ALL OF LANGUAGE
Keith Jafrate's Euyrydice
VACUUM-PACKED
SANDWICHES
AND SORDID HEADLINES
new poems by Cliff Yates
REALLY
Paul
Sutton's poems. Really.
NOT
HALF
Sandra Tappenden lets fly
NIGHT
SCHOOL
Gill McEvoy attends
SAY THE SAME THINGS
new poems by Janet Fisher
GOING WITH THE FLOW
John Mingay comes unstuck
WELL
HOUSE LETTERS
poems from down the pub
KNOWING WHO THEY ARE
Jeffrey Side on two new Stride books
A DELUGE
OF DEFINITIONS
Jane Routh on Amy Newman
FEELING
GRAVITY'S PULL
Sarah Law on Allen Fisher
DISLOCATIONS
new prose from Yann Lovelock
STILLED
INSTANTS & NEW TERRITORIES
i.m.
Ian Robinson
THE
SOLEX BROTHERS
introduced
by Luke Kennard
SHAMANIC
WARRIORS & NOW POETS
Paul
Rowland takes a trip
'I
WAS THERE AND NOT THERE'
Kelvin Corcoran's Selected Poems
PETER
RILEY
excavated
by Michael Peverett
LEE
HARWOOD'S COLLECTED POEMS
Andy
Brown offers up praise
THIS
IS HOW EVERYTHING BREAKS UP
poems
by Rebecca Loudon
THREE
WAYS OF LOOKING AT A TRIO
Paul
Donnelly on some recent jazz
TIME
TO EAT YOUR WORDS
Abi
Curtis on Nick Totton
HAMLET
IN A MOTEL IN VEGAS
Charles Simic by Martin Caseley
from SHUT DOWN
by Michael Peverett
ADVENTURES
WITH WORDS
William Oxley grapples with Peter Philpott
THE
FLYING BED
and other poems by Zoe Brigley
NEW GIRLS
Jane Routh on three new Shoestring titles
LIVES
IN POETRY
Raymond
Humphreys reviews
IN
BED AND EATING
PAELLA
new poems by Steve Waling
A
CONCENTRATED EFFORT
by
William Oxley
THE
BLUECHROME MIX
Bill
Petty investigates
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Martin
Stannard on O'Hara,
Schuyler, Ashbery and Koch
WHOSE SIGNATURE
IS HARD TO DECIPHER
Patricia Farrell gets political
HARLOWDHARMA
by Alice Lenkiewicz
from AVAILABLE LIGHT
new pems by Clark Allison
THE READABLE
SIDE OF EXPERIMENT
John Welch's new book reviewed
MID-AIR
MEDITATION
and
other poems by Edmund Hardy
IN
THE SPIRIT OF
THE TIMES
Paul
Donnelly gets
jazz
DADAIST
UPBRINGING
Luke
Kennard gets
over it
and reviews some new Salt books
A CARD TO MARTIN STANNARD
and other poems by CJ Allen
from
FAMILIAR TERRITORY
Rupert Loydell takes no prisoners
MORE OF THE SAME
Alan Corkish and a new batch from bluechrome
SNOWSHOES ACROSS THE
CLOUDS
A collaborative review
AMBLING
RAPPORT
New poems by Amy King
A
DIFFERENT MATTER
Poems
by Avik Chanda
DIFFERING
OPINIONS
of
The Butcher's Hands
IN
TRANSLATION
Andy
Brown on recent titles
WHAT
A PERFORMANCE
New poems by John Greeves
SENSING THE SPIRIT
Brian
Pearce sounds out heaven and earth
TAILS,
TRICKS AND HERRINGS
Matt
Simpson on the inevitable
BLOSSOM OF PERCEPTIONS
Sarah
Law on Denise Levertov
HEAVEN KNOWS I'M MISERABLE NOW
RS
Thomas' Later Collected Poems
PROOF OF SILHOUETTES
Paul
Rowland examines the evidence
WEST
IS THE BEST
Thomas
White visits West House
PROBLEMS AND POLEMICS
Alan Corkish reviews Sam Smith
BUDDHIST SHEET MUSIC
Hank Lazer reviewed by Paul Rowland
HUNTING THE KINNAYAS
Carey Moon accompanies Andy Brown
A BOTTOMLESS LAKE
Steve Waling dives into
Peter Didsbury's new book
UNTIL
THE CAMERA SEES YOUJ
Jane Routh
DARK
AND LIGHT LOCKED
Mark Goodwin
JENNIFER MOXLEY
reviewed by Stephanie Cleveland
BEE ATIFIC
and other
bee poems by Richard Mais
A MUSIC OF ISLANDS
Jane Thorpe
A WHEN I"M ASLEEP IN A BEDROOM
THEY WAKE ME UP AND KILL ME
BUT I'M GETTING TOO OLD FOR THAT
Martin
Stannard
CHAOS AND BEAUTY
Paul
Donnelly on Chris McGregor
THE PORCUPINE'S KISS
Robert Joyce on Stephen Dobyn's latest
WHISPERS
STUMBLE AWKWARDLY
i
n Maurice
Oliver's poetry
BLUECHROME
Matt Simpson investigates
PHOENIX NEW WRITING
Luke Kennard gets sent to Coventry
ASLEEP IN THE SEED
and other new poems
by Larissa Szporluk
PAINTED
LADIES
Gordon Read by Sally
Chisholm
RETHINKING
AFRICA
Matt Simpson takes
a [Andrew] Peek
KNITTING
WITH WORDS
Poetry by Malgorzata
Kitowski
SEAMANSHIP
William Oxley is at
sea with Gavin Bantock
DIRK BOGARDE
REVISITES VENICE
and other poems by Louise Cole
CASCADES
OF LIGHT
John Deane by David
Grubb
PETER
READING
reviewed by Paul Rowland
ATTENTION
DEFICIT DISORDER
David Chorlton can't
focus
FIVE
OBSTRUCTIONS
film fun with Malgorzata
Kitowski
SAINTS,
MYSTICS, DARK LANDSCAPES
Sally Chisholm reviews
Sarah Law and Rose Flint
BOOKS
I HAVE THROWN AWAY
Robert Joyce's discards
THE
YEAR THAT WAS
Stephen Middleton's 2003
THE
BEST OF 2003
readers' lists
THE MUSEUM OF
LIGHT
reviewed by
Matt Bryden
KISSES THREE
Matt Simpson
grapples
with the Green Knight
LAST TRICKS
Peter Redgrove
reviewed & remembered
DON'T ASK ME WHAT
I MEAN
The Martin Stannard Awards Show
BLUE CITY ANGELS
new poems by Rose Flint
THE LATEST
CK Williams reviewed
HARD WATER
Matt Simpson is longing to connect with Jean Sprackland
A FATAL DULLNESS
James Reiss sends William Oxley to sleep
DIONYSUS IN THE USA
Paula Bardell reviews John Gist
DISCUSSING THE MISSING VOICE
poems by Dianne Darby
FULL OF STAR'S DREAMING
i.m. Peter Redgrove 1932-2003
THE SOUND OF ONE-HAND CLAPPING
a big hand, please, for Sarah Law
A GREAT THING
Tony Lopez on Tom Raworth
ANYBODY'S
STORY
Andrew Shields reviews Stephen Dunn
TO TRAVEL OR NOT TO TRAVEL?
Andy Brown takes to the road with Peter
Riley
WHO WINGS HIS WHY
ee cummings revisited
AN OPEN LETTER
Stannard on MacSweeney
THE LIGHT OF DAY
Paul Rowland on Devorah Day
A DANGEROUS CHICANE
new poems by Andy Green
GEORGE OPPEN'S NEW COLLECTED
POEMS
Clark Allison
TWO NEW
ARC BOOKS
reviewed by Thomas White
THE MIND OF A MONKEY
poetry by Christopher Hogg
DISSOLVING
BORDERS
Paul Donnelly on some recent jazz
COMPOSE MESSAGE
new poems by Marianne Morris
REMEMBRANCE
OF THINGS PAST
Paul Rowland reviews
Carolyn Forché and W.B. Keckler
CHILDREN OF PARADISE
and other poems by Jesse Lee Kercheval
CATHERINE HALES
is just passing through
DIVERSIONS AND DIVISIONS
William Oxley on Stephen Oliver
NORTHERN LIGHTS
Matt Simpson's book reviews
FREEDOM FRIES & GOOD
SOUP
Peter Shippy is on the menu
THE PROSE SPIRIT
Andy Brown on two new books
SYMPHONY NO 1.
Paul Rowland composes
OVERWHELMED
George Oppen's Collected Poems
INSERT THE
WORD
Huw Jones does
MISSIVES
FROM HOTEL PARTICULIER
Paul Donnelly
muses on Frank O'Hara
BETWEEN A AND
O
Martin Burke makes the trip
LEAF HUTS AND
SNOW-HOUSES
Sam Smith reviews Olav Hauge
SIX PARAGRAPHS
5 & 6
Clark Allison continues
NEW CENTURY
NORTH AMERICAN POETS
Angela Topping on a new anthology
NAVIGATORS AND EXPLORERS
New from Shoestring Press
from SUSPENDED GOLD
prose poems by Norman Jope
A BOOK TO INHABIT
Sam Smith on Wayne Lante
A PARTICULAR SHADE
OF GREEN
Jane Routh on Earth Songs
RED SKY AT NIGHT
Mark Robinson on socialist poetry
VERSIONS
W.B.
Keckler senses time more keenly
ASSEMBLING ALTERNATIVES
Reading Postmodern Poetry Transnationally
DRUMS OF WINTER
David Grubb beats them out
THE TIP OF MY TONGUE
Steve Waling reviews Robert Crawford
NELSON & THE
HURUBURU BIRD
Martin Stannard on Mairéad Byrne
FOR SILVER SEE BLUE
Jane Routh on Glenn Stourhaug
WAXING AND WANING
Carole Baldock on new prose
NEW TIMES, NEW TOOLS
The New Polish Poetry
from IN THE
SMOKE A DRUMMER BLEW
Paul Donnelly's poems
EIGHT EXCURSIONS
reviewed by Sheila Murphy
TEXTURES
New poems by Andrea Moorhead
THE RESTORATION OF
A REPUTATION
David Wevill's Selected Poems
SIX
PARAGRAPHS 3 & 4
more from Clark Allison
SHAPING THE BIG WINDOW
Eamon Grennan's poems
THE BLOODAXE BOOK OF WELSH POETRY
Glyn Pursglove investigates
from
SUPERLIMINARE
by Aaron McCollough
MOTHERS OF LIFE AND LANGUAGE
Abi Curtis on a book of poetics & motherhood
DON'T EVER BEGIN IT BY ASKING
New poems by Daniel Coudriet
APPEARANCES
by Keith Jafrate
DREAM CATCHER
Sarah Law on Helen Ivory
STOPS ALONG THE WAY
new poems by Matt Simpson
WEST HOUSE
Gordon Read reviews
from THE MEMORY SCREEN NOTEBOOKS
new images by Alan Halsey
GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON
Martin Stannard offers several
for not reading Les Murray
LET X = Y
Stephen Berg reviewed
SIX PARAGRAPHS
1 & 2
New writing by Clark Allison
STATES OF MIND
Boccioni, Liardet & Pearce JAZZ FROM SLAM
Paul Donnelly investigates
BIG & GREEN
Jane Routh gets architectural
AS FLUFFY
AS LEAD
The Encyclopedia of Stupidity
SUPPOSE
Eric Nicholson's poems
PLATO, THE SCULPTOR
AND THE SYNTACTICAL GUERRILLA
Robert Sheppard and Lawrence Upton's new books
COMPANIONABLE SANITY
Steve Waling and Sandra Tappenden reviewed
25 REASONS TO READ TOM RAWORTH
Andy Brown lists 'em
THE GIRL WHO SANG SONGS FOR JESUS
and other poems by Rob Mackenzie
31 SONGS
Martin Stannard on Nick Hornby
COMPLEMENTARY TENSIONS
new poems by Martin Hibbert
NINE HORSES
Billy Collins' latest
reviewed by Matt Simpson
THE DARK THEME/IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR
prose-poems
by Dave Ward
BOWING TO INFLUENCES
Paul Donnelly on Martin Archer
from ENDLESSLY DIVISIBLE
Rupert
Loydell does the sums
THE
SUBLIME SONG OF A MAYBE
Martin Stannard on Arjen Duinker
PETER DENT
is fast running out of cloud
ANCHORESS
reviwed by Sarah Law
GIOVANNI MALITO
new prose poems
THE
NERVE OF IT
Andy Brown on Glyn Maxwell
UN'CIRCUMSTRAINT' AND
GRAVID AMERICUN
Tim Allen writes...
JOHN
ASHBERY
a review of his Selected Poems
A DICTIONARY OF LOST THINGS
John Ash reviewed
CROWS AND SPARROWS
fiction by John Michael Cummings ON THE SHORE
Andy Brown and Jane Routh reviewed by Elizabeth
Burns
DREAMING WORDS
Raymond Humphreys on Ian Robinson
WIND
CHILL FACTOR 7.3
an exhibition by Bob Garlitz
CLEMO'S CLAY LANDSCAPES
Martin Caseley reviews a new book about Jack
Clemo
RUSSELL HOBAN INTERVIEW
from the Stride archive
WORDS, BEER
& SMOKE
Paul Donnelly on a new anthology
THE READING TODAY
Carol Ann Duffy & Selima Hill
reviewed by Matt Bryden
HIDING OUT
with Dan Bennet
EMPATHISING
WITH A SEAGULL
John Mingay on Edwin Morgan
QUESTIONS
FOR DAVID KENNEDY
ABANDONED HISTORIES,
UNFINISHED CITIES
new poems by David Kennedy
ALAN GARNER INTERVIEWED
from the Stride archive
TOP TENS FOR 2002
NATHANIEL
TARN
selected poems
IRRIGATIONS
[OF THE HUMAN HEART]
poems by MTC Cronin
ALMOST FEELING
GUILTY
Stannard on Smith
AUTOPSY
& other poems by Sarah Davies
WHY NOT INDEED
Matt Simpson on two Liverpool books
EXACT WORDS EXCHANGED
poems by Carrie Etter
NATHANIEL
TARN
Selected Poems reviewed
A CASE OF LOST
DOGS
New poems by Phil Bowen
REGAL AS A LOON
Stephen Mead's poems
THE
INVASION HANDBOOK
Tom Paulin reviewe
NOIR
a poem by Stephen Oliver
CHICKEN
HAWK
Patrick Armstrong on Stephen Oliver
SMALL
PAINTINGS ON CARD
Rupert Loydell
WORLDS
AWAY FROM HOME
Diana Syder and John Lyons reviewed
TIME
ZONES & SPACE PSALMS
new music from Electroshock
WATERBORNE
Nina Kang reviews Linda Gregerson
COLLEGE
STREET
an exhibition by Bruce Bitmead
I'LL
SHOW YOU COURAGE
Matt Bryden on Brooooce's latest
FORENSIC
SCIENCE
Norman Jope on Dr Morley
PRE-APOCALYPTIC,
POST-APOCALYPTIC FANTASIES
William Oxley reviews
TO
YOU SQUABBLING POETS
Andy Brown sounds off
THIS
IS THE POEM
these are Marlo Bester-Sproul's
OBSESSIONS
WITH SMALL OBJECTS
Andy Brown on *Speck*
FINGERPRINTS
New poems by Mario Petrucci
ON
THE AVENUE OF THE PORTAL OF ANGELS
Paul Perry's poetic report LOG
VERSE NOT CODE
poems by Nina Kang
REINVENTING
THE WHEEL
reviews by Alistair Fitchett
THE
GESTURE OF SEASONS
and other poems by
Jessica Schneider
IMAGINING
THE GOLDEN LARKS COULD COME
John Mingay
PROSE
POEMS
by Prasenjit Maiti
GUESSED
DISAPPEARANCE
Robert Sheppard on Iain Sinclair JUST
A KISS AWAY
A Little Book of Judas
reviewed by Sarah Law
TWO
SIDES OF THE TRIO
Paul Donnelly on piano jazz
THE SOURCE
a poem sequence by Norman Jope
SUBSTANTIAL
THOUGHTS
Geraldine Monk reviewed
by Scott Thurston
CATEGORY
LEFT UNFULFILLED
Prose-poems by Gian Lombardo
FACELIFTS
AND NOSEJOBS
Backwards for the Soft Machine
LUCKY
DIP
Recent American Poetry, Summer 2002
HARMONIOUS
APPEARANCES
A poem sequence by Peter Dent
SAINT
BOB
The attempted canonisation of Robert Lax
from
'...1'
by Peter Ganick
SENSE
OF SOUND
Jane Routh on Richard Caddel
BUT IS IT SCIENCE?
book reviews by Jane Routh
ON THE
PLEASURE BEACH
poems by Aidan Semmens
DOWN
THE HIGHWAY
a life of Bob Dylan reviewed
SLAUGHTER
SO REAL IT DEFLOWERS'
Jon Morley reports on a visit by
Clayton Eshleman to Warwick University
THE CHAMELEON'S DISH
Martin Caseley on a life of George Barker
RECENT
LISTENING
Rupert Loydell spins the CDs
RIGOROUS
ANGLE
Sarah Law stretches out
MY
SLEEPWALKER
new fiction by Anita Kane-Evans
DEMANDING
VOICES
Paul Donnelly reviews
two new Shearsman Books
NEW
POEMS
by Virgil Suárez
BACK
TO THE BASIN
new fiction by Brian Louis Pearce
FREEDOM TO BREATHE
AC Evans considers the new Stride prose-poem
antholog
UNRESTRICTED MOMENT
Peter Riley on Peter Dent
THE PERSONAL
IS THE POLITICAL
Janet Fisher reviews
Adrienne Rich's new poetry book
A
RELATION OF YEARS
a new long poem by Martin Stannard
SHADE
AND DARKNESS
Martin Caseley on Robertson and Emery
EMPTINESS
WITHOUT REGRET
new poems by Stephen Oliver
MEN
OF WORDS
Sarah Law on new poetry collections
BALLADS
OF THE
ALONE
a new poem sequence by Rupert Loydell
LIFE
WITH THE DINOSAURS
Paul Donnelly reviews
Sid Smith's book about King Crimson
THINKING
UP NEW THINGS
Poems by Glen McDonnell
THE
TIME THAT SUNLIGHT TAKES TO REACH US
A debate on how we can write poetry in the 21st
Century
WAYS OF LOOKING AT A CITY
Paul Donnelly and the Liverpool experience
WHERE
WAS I?
New poems by Charles Hadfield
HERONSBROOK
Carrie McMillan reviews a collection
of non-linear
stories published on CD
NAVIGATING
THE OUTER REACHES
Roselle Angwin on Sheila E. Murphy
DAN
BERN & GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS
New alt.country reviewed by Matt Bryden
BIG
DADDY KICKS TIRES
and other
poems by Donna Biffar
UNBLOCKED
DRAINS
Mark Robinson reviews two volumes of Writers
in Conversation
WANDERING
WITH W.G. SEBALD
and Bob Garlitz
RESURRECTION
SONNETS
by Andrew Nightingale
SOMETIMES
THE POEM IS SO QUIET IT IS ALMOST SILENT
John Mingay on David Grubb and Martin Stannard
'I
WISH I HAD A SYLVIA PLATH'
Matt Bryden on Ryan Adams
and his literary desire
THE
MATISSE BAG 2
A second excerpt from D.M. Norsworthy's novel
DEAD
REDHEAD/STONEPICKER
Barbara Thimm reviews
new books by Frieda Hughes and Tracey Herd
POEMS
FROM THE OZ FILE
William Oxley
reviews
three new Carcanet books
THE
MANUAL OF A JAZZ FAN
Paul Donnelly reviews POINTS OF DEPARTURE
by Robin Tomens
'I'M
NOT YOUR VERBAL DOORMAT'
new poems by Sharon Cooper
THE
ENGLISH ART OF POLLARDING
Martin Caseley reviews new books
by David Grubb and Kevin Crossley-Holland
LOVELY
BETWEEN THE FINGERS
Robert Joyce scratches away at two recent West
House publications
SOME
OBSERVATIONS ON POSTMODERN POETRY
John Greene gets critical
SIMPSON
& DENT V. OXLEY
Two new books. Two 'no sorry's
ALL
NIGHT LONG: The Music of Mike Osborne Revisited
by Paul Donnelly
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