Stride Magazine - www.stridemagazine.co.uk

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

LET'S JUST SAY I HAVE A PICTURE IN MY HEAD
new poems by Steve Spence

INVOLVEMENT AND ALIENATION
James McLaughlin's Justified Sonnets


LISTEN TO THOSE WORDS
David Hart on R.S. Thomas

A WONDERFUL THING
Paul Stubbs' Flesh

SIX + SIX
Who owns the language?

CITIES, BODIES, LANGUAGE -
AND A FAIRYTALE PRINCESS

six new books reviewed

THE FIRST FIGHT OF TWILIGHT
David Lawrence uppercuts the seagulls

DOWN WITH BEAUTY
Andy Brown reviews Ken Edwards

ZOMBIE NETWORS OF INTIMACY
new poems by Daniel Y Harris

THE UNREMITTING SHREDDER
Colin Sutherill makes heavy weather of it

A SIDE ORDER OF HAD-IT-COMING
Neil Fulwood is in dubious company

AUTOPSY AT THE MORGUE DOOR
and other poems by Robert Ensor

'Twelve thoughts on the language of others'
Andrew Poppy's new CD

'the many promises of vision'
Isabel Galleymore on Jorie Graham

HILL OF DOORS
Andy Brown on Robin Robertson

PARTY LIKE IT'S 1984
Guy Russell on Andy Croft's alternative history

MAKING SENSE OF THE MADNESS
Steve Spence on Whitehall Jackals

SHEARSMAN OF SORTS
Shearsman's new pamphlet series

SHIFTS ACROSS LANGUAGE
The poems still singing

THE RICHNESS OF EXPERIENCE
Philip Terry's Bayeux

NEVER CATCHING UP
In pursuite of Edward Thomas

SALT OF THE EARTH?
Market forces and poetry sales

YESTERDAY'S MUSIC TODAY
Mike Ferguson, Rupert Loydell & their music

DEAR WORLD & EVERYONE IN IT
Nikolai Duffy on the new Bloodaxe anthology

APRIL CHRONICLES
Martin Stannard is having a time

UNPEOPLED BRANCHES
Peter Larkin stands on the threshold

AN IMPORTANT INTERVENTION
David Kennedy discusses
John Redmond's Poetry & Privacy

THE ZECHSTEIN SEA
Ian Seed is hungry to read more

INSPID RECUBATION
James MacLaughlin's sonnets

NO BEDTIME STORY
Angela Topping's Paper Patterns

THE POEMS CAME FIRST
Steve Spence's review round up

OUTER REACHES
Andy Brown reviews Glyn Maxwell

YOUR MOTHER WON'T BELIEVE ME
new poems by Hazel Corrigan

THE MEMORY IMPRINTED
new poems by David Laskowski

SUNDRY SONNETS (UNSUGARED)
Peter Hughes does Petrarch

SCOTCH BROTH & GUMBO
Matt Fallaize on Alec Finlay and Skip Fox

THE SKY SLUMPS ON MY SHOULDERS
Giles Longley-cook sits and bleeds

THE STRANGEST THANK YOU
Steve Spence on Richard Thomas

SUMMER IS GONE
and Mark A Murphy is lost

DIALOGUE IN LIMBO
new poems by Harry Guest

A SENSE OF CELEBRATION
Jaime Robles' Hoard

INTO ANOTHER LANGUAGE
Seizing Places & Silence River

STRANGE AND CURIOUSLY POWERFUL
Alice Oswald, Heathcote Williams, Norman Jope

TWO PIECES OF INFORMATION
Richard Price's Small World

TWO POETS' PROSE WRITINGS
reveiwed by David Hart

THE EDITOR'S PICKS 2012

STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS & OTHER POEMS
Ali Znaidi is reaching toward a silent audience

DRIFTING IN A VAST SKY
John F Deane's New & Selected Poems

WHAT THE UNIVERSE WON'T SAY
Philip Oakes is stained to shine

DEATH COMES FOR THE POETS
Steve Spence's round up of recent publications

AMBIGUOUS LANDSCAPES
Rupert Loydells makes tracks

AT TIMES LIKE THESE
Mark C. Taylor's Reconfiguring the Spiritual

IMAGINE A MAN SENTENCED TO PROSE...
new poems by Jay Ramsay

FOR YOUR INFORMATION...
Cusp - recollections of poetry in transition

WHERE WE ARE

Recent reading, Autumn 2012

A LOT GOING ON
Robert Dickinson, Alan Brownjohn,
Fanny Howe and Maryrose Larkin

TALKING 'BOUT THEIR GENERATION
Geraldine Monk's Cusp


FRESH AIR
Shock horror! Martin Stannard likes two new books

PEACHY
Steve Spence eats some Sea Pie

CANADIAN DRY
James A. Heald's Bruce Cockburn

BIZARRELY ENTERTAINING
Fiona Sampson's Beyond the Lyric
according to David Kennedy

I HOPE I DON'T NEED GLASSES
Bobby Parker is not sure this is going to be a poem

TOUGH GUYS
Alasdair Paterson faces up to Dan Burt & Jon Glover

BEYOND ALL RISK OF NOTATION
Norman Jope was not at the UFO club in 1967

SOMA/SEMA
Jeremy Twill in imaginary conversation with David Toms

MEMORY AND LONGING
David Kennedy reviews Jacek Gutorow

COOL SEXY AND JUICY
Martin Stannard looks up the definition of skine

THE LITERARY LIFE
Edward Thomas' letters

SUPERIOR KNOWLEDGE
Niall McDevitt's attitude

BUILD YOUR OWN NARRATIVE
whilst Tripping Daylight

QUITE AN EXPERIENCE
the fool and the physician

THE SLIPPERINESS OF LANGUAGE
Thomas White on James Womack and David Herd

NEGOTIATING TERRITORY
Steve Spence is out the Emergency Window

WELL-TRAVELLED IN THE REALMS OF POETRY
Martin Stannard is on his guard

CULTURAL WORTH
David Hart on a new batch of translations

A CONSTANT DISTRACTION
Ben Parker asks some questions

FAITH BE THIS SYLLABLE NODDING
Ian Bodkin swaddles the mind

WRITING THE VISUAL
Peter Gillies reviews David Kennedy's new book
about ekphrasis in contemporary British poetry


BEING IN THE EVERYDAY
David Hart on new books
by Lev Loseff and Fabio Pusterla


THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS
FrankKuppner's The Same Life Twice
according to Thomas White

A MARK A JOT A HAND UP A HOLDUP
new poems by Heller Levinson

ALL GUTS AND SQUISHED ELECTRICITY
Max Wallis is the frizz of a curled eyelash


HOW TO WRITE ABOUT READINGS
David Kennedy reviews Julia Novak's Live Poetry

ALL SPOKEN FOR
Michael Mc Aloran is unlocked and shimmering

CONTRARY IMPERATIVES
an interview with Tony Williams

LIKE WINE THROUGH WATER
Daniel Pantano & Neil Ellman
according to Joanne Ashcroft


A STORY ARRIVES
Ken Edwards & David Greenslade

AWARE OF THE DARK ABSURDITY
Steve Spence on Ed Dorn

GOOD HUMOURED AND PHILOSOPHICALLY RESONANT
Andy Brown thinks long and hard
about Ian Hamilton Finlay


THE FUTURE OF THE PAST
David Kennedy on Creative Writing and Art History

VARIATIONS ON PAINTING A ROOM
Steve Spence reviews Alan Baker

ECHOES & GRUMBLING
Peter Dale's Diffractions

CRAVING MORE
new poetry titles reviewed

METAPHORS AND MANIFESTOS
Kristina Marie Darling on Michael Leong


FILLING UP WITH WATER AND LIGHT
Ben Wallin decides not to

COMFORTABLE
Don Paterson's Selected Poems

A SIGN OF TENSION & WORRY
new poems by Martin Stannard (Design Flaw)

UNDISCOVERED CONSTELLATIONS
At the Oblivion Tea Rooms

RAW & URGENT
David Swann's The Privilege of Rain

THE JAGUAR'S DREAM
David Hart reviews John Kinsella

STALKER
Ian Seed reviews Lucy Hamilton

THE STAIN OF TULIPS
Martin Caseley reviews James Fenton

BIG NOTES, SMALL CHANGES
Helen Moore, Paul Naylor, Peter Phillips,
Caroline Carver, Will Kemp and John Fraser Williams


CHANNEL HOPPING

John Hartley Williams, Simon Curtis,
Tony Lopez and Simon Jenner

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Tim Cresswell makes like he never left

ANGELS AND HARVESTERS
James Harpur's harvest

MY DUSK IS PAST THE MIDPOINT OF FOCAL
writes Sheila Murphy

ADVENTURES IN FORM
Tom Chivers' anthology reviewed

PURE CONTRADICTION
Ian Crockatt's translations of Rilke

RESURRECTED UNDER LEAVES AND BRANCHES
five sonnets by James McLaughlin

DO TAKE ME SERIOUSLY
Geoffrey Godbert is discovered
then heard then celebrated


SOME OF THEIR CLAIMS WERE TRUE
Paul Sutton's Tower of Babel is under construction

TOM PAULIN & PAUL FARLEY
Andy Brown is surprised and engaged

THE BLAB AND THE BOIL OF IT
new poems by Joanne Ashcroft

EVADING THE CANON
Robert Sheppard on Andrew Crozier

[WITHOUT A TITLE] AND OTHER REVIEWS
Sean Colletti on five recent books

ON THE POTENTIAL USE OF DETAIL
Vona Groarke catalogues the open road

BOTHER AND BLESSING
David Hart reads subjectively

ONLY MORE SO
Digesting and grappling with Tony Lopez

DOWN HERE IT IS EASY TO GET LOST
Steve Spence is blending into the background

A RANGE OF AMBIGUOUS FORMS
Steve Waling knocks through history

NOT SUCH AN OLD BUFFER
Roy Fuller's Selected Poems

IT IS NOT A GLACIER
David Lawrence likes poets with reputations that burn

MUDDYING THE WATERS WITHOUT DOUBT
Steve Spence on Andrew Jordan

MUSIC, MUSIC, RETURN INTUITIVE TUNEFULNESS
sings Alec Newman

INTRIGUING MINIMALISM & ANARCHIST TENDENCIES
John Phillips & Sean Bonney reviewed

MIRRORBALLS & MONSTERS
Aidan Semmens has a passion for the possible

MEMORIES, DREAMS AND MUTATIONS
a review round up by Alasdair Paterson

BE QUIET, SAY NOTHING
Ian Seed is a living telephone

RECENT READING: POETIC CONVERSATIONS
Rupert Loydell reviews

RENDERED MORE PLAUSIBLE
BY SHARDS OF SYNTAX
Catherine Hales muddies the pool

'THE PAINT IS THE PERSON'
Barry Hill's Naked Clay

THEY CAN ALL GO TO HELL
Mike Ferguson says 'Fuck Altruism'

TIME, IDENTITY, MEMORY
Neil Powell's Proof of Identity

DARK DEVICE BEHIND THE EYES
Tim Allen's Tattered Magnets

DUTCH POP ANGSTER
George Messo on Ramsey Nasr

THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCES
Martin Caseley reviews Clive Wilmer

ECHOES OF CHEERING
new poems by Tony Lucas

GURLESQUE
James McLaughlin gets the Kiss Off

HYPOTHETICAL STRANGER
Alan Baker's 'Week to View'

A BOOK OF TWO HALVES
Drawing Projects reviewed

WRITING THAT LEADS TO PONDERING
Steven Waling on Alice Notley and Peter Gizzi

POETS IN LANDSCAPE (& VICE VERSA)
Alisdair Paterson's review round-up

EVEN THE BAD TIMES ARE GOOD
Robert Sheppard & Rupert Loydell in conversation

LIFE SENTENCE
Colin Robinson is seasick from the Journey

WHAT MAKES LOVE IS EVERYDAY ACTIONS
Ed Baker's Stone Girl E-pic

A ROMANTIC AT HEART
Steve Spence on Heathcote Williams

GRAFFITI BURSTS OF COLOUR
Jay Ramsay bows to creation

A SECULAR PRAYER BOOK
Carol Ann Duffy's Bees

SATELLITE OF LOVE
Nikolai Duffy is speaking without thinking

WHEN THE MOON IS IN THE SEVENTH HOUSE
Angela Topping on Andrew Oldham & Billy Collins

ORIENTATED BY MANUALS
All the Rooms of Uncle's Head

THE BLANK SUCCUMBING WORLD
Kym Martindale on Memorial

THE EDITOR'S PICKS 2011
a personal best of

SLEEP PARALYSIS
Here too, time is suspended

A WELCOME ADDITION
Natalia Gorbanyevskaya's Selected Poems

CONFESSIONAL EXISTENTIALISM
The Pistol Tree Poems

A LIMITED PICTURE
The Best British Poetry 2011?

THE DILEMMA OF SUPERLATIVES
The Best British Poetry 2011

DO THE DUMMY THING
Bobby Parker does his praying in the bathroom

LARGE COMPOUNDS OF DUPLICITY
five poems by James McLaughlin

WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET
Smartarse reviewed

FLOWERS
a film by Tim Cumming

BRILLIANT & NECESSARY
John Kinsella's Armour

ENGAGED AND DEMOCRATIC
David Caddy's The Bunny Poems

A PUNK ZINE FOR THE NEW CENTURY?
Laura Oldfield Ford's Savage Messiah

R.D. LAING FOR THE NEW CENTURY
Alan Morrison's Captive Dragons

THE ART OF RETRIEVAL
Alan Halsey on David J. Jones' Gothic Machines

GAPS BETWEN THE TEETH
Let's compare notes with Joe Dresner

MIRCEA IVANESCU'S LINES POEMS POETRY
George Messo reaches for the Mogadon

WORLD OF FUN
Martin Stannard's 'The Tempest'

PUTTING POETRY ON THE MAP
David Hart on Six Latvian Poets

VOICES & INTERPRETATIONS
Linda Black's Root

A PRIEST GOT LOST IN A FOREST
Sarah Law lives life on a limb

TO WALK WITH THOUGHT
Peter Riley's rambles

TWELVE TEXTS FOR ADMONITORY SERMONS
ON THE POET RUTHVEN TODD
Robert Latona on an uncommonly rewarding writer

RATTLESNAKE WEATHER
Tim Peeler goes to the drive-in

LETTING GO OF CONTROL
Steve Spence on Norman Jope,
Andy Croft & Jeremy Reed


SOME BRILLIANT PSYCHOSIS
Just Geraldine Monk

'OUT INTO THE RIVER EXE...'
Jaime Robles' 'White Swan'

HULLABALOO AND SECRET PIANOS
David Grubb has other stories to tell

IT WILL ALL BE FORGOTTEN LATER
writes Seren Adams

SIX STUDIES OF BEEFHEART
John Mingay leaves an impression

MISSING THINGS
Rob Stanton and Joanne Ashcroft reviewed

PASS THE BAYONET
Jake O'Leary's Televisions

BORROWED AND FAMILIAR LANDSCAPES
Martin Caseley on Peter Scupham

MAPPING THE URBAN FIELD
City State - New London Poetry

IT IS HARD NOT TO SEE CAGE'S GHOST
in Glenn Frantz's poems

THE PAMPHLET LIVES!
Alasdair Paterson reviews five new ones

IF SILENCE FALLS THE SPOOK-EAR HEARS
six sonnets by Mike Ferguson

Archive

OUTSIDE THE PORTHOLE INVISIBLE GLISTENS
Jane Holland's Adventure Sky

LARGE PATCHES OF SILENCE
new poems by John McKernan

HERE IS YOUR WORDLIST FOR THE WEEK
good luck from Nicholas Liu

RABBITS ON THE WHOLE
ARE RELUCTANT TO READ POETRY

writes Joanne Merriam

INFINITE DIFFERENCES
two new anthologies of women's writing

THE BAT GOD
David Chorlton is waiting for the sphinx moth

METAPHYSICAL BANANA PEELS
Robert Fontella on Boris Yankelevich

TROUBLES SWAPPED FOR SOMETHING FRESH
a review and unreview by Phil Brown

APPARENTLY...
Helen Ivory and Matthew Caley

THE ADVENTURE OF TAKING SILLY CHANCES
new poems by David Lawrence

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
Ben Wilkinson on new pamphlets

DETAILED APPREHENSION
Meredith Miller takes a blue pencil
to Brandi Homan


THEIR SHINE ALMOST CIRCLES
new poems by Simon Perchik

HISTORY AS KNOWLEDGE
George Szirtes' Hungary

FINE WINE!
drunk on Elizabeth Bletsoe

REMEMBERING & INTERPRETING
Frances Presley's Lines of Sight

CONFUSION IS NOT A CRIME
Catherine Walsh's Optic Verve

PHOTOGRAPHS & FRISBEES
Jane Routh makes Inroads

INTOXICATED
Steve Spence on Elisabeth Bletsoe

THE TOIL OF EROSION
Peter Larkin gets to the root of it

NOTHING LIKE LOVE
James McLaughlin 4 Jenny Joseph

THERE'S SOMETHING IN THERE?
John Mingay reviews five new titles

I STAY INDOORS AND LEARN WORDS
new poems by Martin Stannard

A YOUNG WOMAN'S WORLD
smouldering relationships & pubic shaving

CULTURAL GROUPINGS
New Turkish and Moroccan poetry

GOING BIG
Joanne Fulman's Pageant

CURSE YOUR BRANCHES

David Bazan's new way of thinking

THE ROOM MUST BE FILLED
Philip Roth, Jeremy Reed & Myung Mi Kim

ANTICIPATION CROWDS THE CACTUS CAKE
Jake O'Leary's Language of Excess

ARCANA AND OTHER POEMS
James McLaughlin is transported

ON AND ON AND ON
Molly Peacock's The Second Blush

ACROSS THE PURPLE HEATHER
Peter Gillies on Thomas A Clark

YOU AS ONLY I KNOW
a poem sequence by John Mingay

MAKING WAVES
Nathan Thompson is in Poemland

A BIG BIT OF BREAD
& PLENTY OF CHEESE
Philip Terry on Jeremy Over

THREE SEA-WINDS
AND ONE TATTERED COAT
new titles reviewed by John Mingay

MORE THAN FOURTEEN LINES
Camille Martin's Sonnets

GOD OF HIS OWN IMAGINATION
David Briggs' Fool

VISTAS AND TWISTED EXPLANATIONS
James MacLaughlin's Odes

DAVID NASH IS NOT YOUR FRIEND
But he might be your cousin

HOMONYMS MADE PALPABLE AGAIN
Sheila E Murphy's Vespers

WHERE IT'S AT
Recent art and music books

WHERE DEEPS OF FEELING ARE
John McKeown's Sea of Leaves

EARS FINDING THE SHIFT
New freedoms, new translations

SCATTERING DUST IS GOOD PRACTICE
Camille Martin's double sonnets

THE EDITOR'S PICKS 2009


UNNATURAL EVOLUTION
Tony Lopez's Darwin

A CONTINENT APPEARS
Mary Michaels' Tide

A CENTURY OF POETRY REVIEW
Jane Holland catches her breath

SHE DREAMED; HIS WORLD SHIFTED
Carolyn Hart's Aurora

ANDY WARHOL IS NOT YOUR FRIEND
But he might be your cousin

SEARCHING FOR TROLLS
The Dark Monarch and The Psychick Bible

PENGUINS IN PERIWIGS
and other new poems by K.J. Hannah Greenberg

ONE WORLD OR ANOTHER
Peter Dent's interlocking planes

DECEIVING WILD CREATURES
Steve Spence on Jeremy Over

ARE WE NOT DRAWN...
On the beach with Peter Philpott

IT IS THE SAME VOICE IN THE MOUTH
Ian Seed repeats the procedure

THE DOOR OF TALDIR

Bill Sherman on Paul Evans

MISTS & FLAMES
Abi Curtis' Unexpected Weather

THE SWEEP AND TUG OF LANGUAGE
Alan Halsey's Term as in Aftermath


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

THREE DARK AGE SAINTS
by James Harpur

THE AUTHENTIC TOUCH
& THE CONCEPT OF ZERO
Paul Sutton compares and contrasts

IN THE HEART OF MODERNITY
new Smith/Doorstop titles

A VERY LONG TITLE
& A TRAGIC INCIDENT
Farley and Haddon reviewed

THE OXYGEN OF POETRY
Tess Gallagher's Dear Ghosts

IN THE ABSENCE OF BLANCHOT
Alan Halsey's unlikely read

OFFCUTS
Neil Bartlett's Skin Lane

A REASSURING VOICE
Ian Seed on Generation Txt

NOTHING LINGO-ARCH OR CAMPY
three new books from Shearsman

RHYME & PUN-ISHMENT
Belinda Cooke on two from Cinnamon Press


FINDING FRESH WORDS
Jan Fortune-Wood goes searching

THE INFLUENCE OF OTHERS
three new Carcanet titles

UNITS OF RECOGNITION

Nathan Thompson is afraid of the echoes

DAFFODILS, SPICES & FUGUES
Matt Simpson sniffs and listens

ASH GREEN
Geoffrey Godbert is wishing for more

LIGHT LINES WE WALK TO
Mark Dickinson's head is in the clouds

CONTEMPORARY ART IN FRANCE
Rupert White on Catherine Millet

GLEAMS OF HIDING
Mark Goodwin shines a light

PRACTICE THIS TECHNIQUE AT HOME
Angela Topping's half-forgotten songs

AUDIBLE, ATONAL, BEAUTIFUL
new poems by Jennifer Olds

CURIOUSLY DULL
David Hart gets News of the swimmers...

THE RADIANT LYRE
essays on lyric poetry reviewed

DOCUMENT AND DISCUSS
interviews, poetry wars,
and innovative women poets


MOMENTS NOT RESOLVED
prose by Tammy Ho Lai-ming

CHASING THE 'PHEW' FACTOR
Geoffrey Godbert is disappointed

HEARTS OF OAK
new titles by Jane Holland,
Guinevere Clark and Gill McEvoy


BUTTERFLIES & HURRICANES
Charlemagne Palestine & Richard Pinhas

A REGISTER OF JUXTAPOSITION
haunted by Le Fanu's Ghost

REVOLUTIONARY SLOGANS
AND POLEMICAL MANIFESTOS
A.C. Evans ventures into the heart of Dada

FAITH RESTORED
John Mingay reviews
new Cinnamon and Arc titles


ALL THE GROWING TIME OF INVOCATION
Peter Larkin's pause in approach

DEFINING THE LYRICAL
William Oxley on David Baker

ASCENDING
Keith Jafrate's 'effigies of belonging'

A PROFOUND ARBITRARINESS
Hart to Hart with Ashbery, Morgan & Mayroker

A HUMMINGBIRD HUMMING
I must go now because it is time to go
THE INVENTIONS OF ICE
The captain may be some time

from THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE
absolute isolation days empty by design

OF FISH, OF HANDS AND ANNUNCIATION
new poems by T. Crunk

ODE TO WARM BLOOD
Mary Maher is on the merry-go-round

VARIATIONS ON MY LIFE
new poems by Lance Newman

AFTER A FEW HE BREAKS INTO SONG
Maurice Riordan & Idris Caffrey

PIGEONS IN A TIME OF FAMINE
new prose by Padrika Tarrant

REQUIEM FOR MYSELF
Norman Jope is in mourning

THE PROOF
new books by Liz Cashdan & Cathy Grindrod

SCRAMBLED, POACHED, BOILED
Helen Ivory's Breakfast Machine

FEELING ITS WAY INTO THE DISTANCE
new poems by Simon Perchik

THE WHOLE ACT OF WRITING
Gilbert Sorrentino's Lunar Follies

PIGMENT, LIGHT & FILM
Garry Fabian Miller's Illumine

BOSH & FLAPDOODLE

A breath of fresh air

TWO FROM ANVIL
reviewed by Belinda Cooke

A IS FOR APPLE FOR TEACHER

Risk Assessment assessed

ENTHRONING DULLNESS
William Oxley is not impressed

THE ONES THAT DIDN'T GET AWAY
a poetry review round-up

MULTIDIRECTIONAL
The Case Against Happiness

THE HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM
New poems by Sophie Mayer

FOUND AND LOST
Robert Latona on 'neglected' books

from
THE FAMILIAR DEAD
Ian Seed stays afloat without noticing

SHARP ENOUGH?
Abi Curtis on Ellendore Watson

NOT HOLIDAY READING?
Peter Riley & Ian Davidson

OPEN TO THE UNEXPECTED
David Hart on Interland

DIRTY DANCING AGAIN
WITH BROKEN LEGS
David Grubb has lost the lists

MOVING PICTURES?
Colin Bradbury and Video Art

EDGES / RIDDLES
new poems by Andy Brown

A TITLE TOO FAR
Michael Foley is beguiling

ANGELS & OTHER DISTURBANCES
David Hart's Running Out

THERE'S JUST ONE HITCH
New books by Jon Woodward,
Peter Sansom & Matthew Holmes


WHEN THE BOURBON KICKS IN
Mike Ferguson does his best

COME TO THE ZOO WITH ME
demands Nathan Thompson

ENERGETIC ARTICULATION
Matt Simpson on Donald Davie

STATE OF THE NATION
Colin Bradbury on new American photography

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Jane Routh on Louise Gluck

THE UNEXAMINED LIFE
is not worth living

HOPING METAPHOR WILL CATCH THE LIGHT
poetry by Thomas White

SHARKS & HOPES & DREAMS
Genista Lews reviews two new anthologies

A FAREWELL TO POETRY
Philip Rush says farewell

REACHING THAT HIGHER STAGE
CK Williams' Collected Poems

OFF THE RADAR
Jonas Bendiksen's Satellites

SOMETHING PERSONAL

Matt Simpson defies the odds

ANOTHER SAME WORLD LEFT
Mark Goodwin's flung to the air

SLEEPING PILLS & SILENCES
Sam Rennes and Wild Women

FLICKERING PERSPECTIVES
Nicholas Hunt tackles fire & ice

A RIVER OF PERCEPTIONS
Steven Waling on Alice Notley

SONGS OF WHAT HAPPENS

Chris Emery's Radio Nostalgia

THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THIS POEM
ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF
EITHER THE WRITER OR READER


AROUND THE BACK
Alan Halsey's Not Everything Remotely

NO PUBLIC LANGUAGE

an interview w ith Ken Edwards

POETIC REVOLUTION
Robert Sheppard's The Education of Desire
and Ken Edwards' Good Science


CAREFULLY STUDIED ACCESS
The Uncollected Elizabeth Bishop

EDGE OF DARKNESS
Colin Bradbury & Twilight

ONE HAND CLAPPING
Daithidh MacEochaidh gets the chrome blues

POSITIVES
a sequence by Philip Terry

GROANS OF SLOW TRAFFIC
Steve Waling trips over the cat

THINGS AND COURTYARDS
Robert Gray and Marilyn Hacker

A PLACE BEYOND POLITICS
Brian Turner's Here, Bullet

WAKE UP LITTLE SUZI
sonnets by the Dark laddy reviewed

WHAT DO I DO WITH DAYS?
new poems by Matt Simpson

JOY AND THE COSMOS
Lorna Goodisan and Maxine Kumin

TO HELL AND BACK
Sean O'Brien's Inferno

USEFUL INSIGHTS
Poetry and Science

OUT OF CHAOS
Genista Lewes makes sense of it

CAPITAL: THE OFFICIAL VERSION
Paul Sutton wallows in it

A TENDER AND LONELY CONSOLING
Bengal the Beautiful

DRESSING SOLIDLY
Margie Cronin puts on her gravel pants

TO ALL THE USELESS IDIOTS
IN THE FUTURE

Paul Sutton is too old for this

EIGHT DIFFERENT VOICES
Matt Simpson on new poetry titles

THE QUESTION THAT HAS TO BE ASKED
Donna Masini &Deborah Bernhardt reviewed

TOM, DICK & MITROFAN
Nicholas Hunt on Amanda Nadelberg

FINE TUNING
Peter Redgrove's The Colour of Radi

SILENCE, NOTHING AT ALL, ANXIETY
new poems by Livia Viitol

IT'S VERY SEVERE TO SUFFER
Cesar Vallejo's Selected Poems

SOMETHING IN THE WATER
says Sandra Tappenden

GATHERING SENTENCES
new poems by Janet Sutherland

IFS AND BUTS AND VIOLENCE
from Risk Assessment

THE NEVER ENDING JOURNEY
New translations of Chinese Poetry

FRAGMENTARY WRITING
David Miller picks up the pieces

SWIMMING WITH WORDS
Matt Simpson's In Deep

EVERY GOODBYE AIN'T GONE
Giles Goodland reviews 'An Anthology
of Innovative Poetry by African Americans'

FIVE UNTITLED POEMS
by Catherine Taylor

THE EXPERIENCE ITSELF
Martin Caseley digs beneath
the surface of The Allotment

MULBERRIES, NAMES
AND COMMON WORDS
Reviews by Andy Brown

FORTY YEARS IN PLACE
Jeremy Hooker's The Cut of Light

SUGAR & SPICE...

Roger Hilton's Sugar

FROM THE BOOK OF DEFINITIONS
Josef Lesser works round the clock

PROMISES, PROMISES
four new books of prose poems

RARELY SEEN VISITORS
new poems by Stephen Oliver

MORE THAN PERFECT LYRIC
Stephen Oliver's Either Side the Horizon

AS GOOD A PLACE AS ANY
Catherine Hales finds temporary lodging

IN ALL WEATHERS
Jane Routh's Teach Yourself Mapmaking

THE LEGENDARY JOURNAL
OF DISAPPOINTMENT
and other works by Paul Sutton

IN DIALOGUE WITH
MATERIALS THAT BLEED
Robert Sheppard's ghostly narratives

THE PHILOSOPHICAL
& THE PERSONAL
Paul Hoover & Joshua Beckman

IRISH-AMERICAN NOSTALGIA
Daniel Tobin's The Narrows

FOUR NEW POETRY COLLECTIONS
Michael Peverett moves fast

POETRY FOR YOB CULTURE
William Oxley gets the donut

A FLASH IN THE PAN?
Flash fiction and prose poetry

THINGS SAID, UNSAID
AND HALF WORTH SAYING

the two Tonys reviewed

SLIDESHOW
prose poems by Annie Clarkson

A MANY-JEWELLED CROWN
Elizabeth Bewick gets the royal treatment

WOOF WOOF WOOF
Andy Brown goes to the dogs

FOREIGN TERRITORIES
three new Carcanet titles

ROOTED IN PRACTICE
Tony Lopez's essays

CRACKS IN THE UNIVERSE
Charles Tomlinson is palpably here

THE MEDITATIVE CAPPUCCINO
Tony Lucas after the exhibition

INDEPENDENT AND ORIGINAL
Matt Simpson assesses Gael Turnbull

THREE FROM SHEARSMAN
reviewed by Jane Routh

THE MONSTERS THAT COME FROM WITHIN
Sarah Law and Scott Thurston reviewed

POINTS FOR DISCUSSION
Martin Stannard on Harvey Shapiro

WITH A SOUND LIKE KERFUDDLE
Nathan Thompson's red spider

ANONYMOUS INTRUDER
no one for miles around

RADIATE ERROR RADIATE ERROR
Mark Goodwin is moving still

PARISIAN SUITE
a sequence by Mark Terrill

THE ECOLOGY OF HERE & NOW
Andy Brown reviews Simon Armitage

EPHEMERA, GOSSIP
Nick Spicer's poems

DEATH IS A WOMAN DANCING
& other poems by Mariel Boyarsky

FRACTAL ECONOMIES

Some recent poetry books

THE POSTMODERN TWILIGHT
Recent books of essays

GLUEPOTS AND BROKEN TOYS
Rebecca Wolff and Alice Fulton

GOING UNDERGROUND
Martin Caseley reviews Seamus Heaney

BYWAYS
James Laughlin disappoints Richard Kostelanetz

EXCERPTS, EXCELLENCE & EXCREMENT
Some recent poetry books

PARTICLES OF LIFE

Jan Fortune-Wood's new book

FRIDAY
by Keith Jafrate

LOOKING FOR ICARUS
Belinda Cooke considers Roselle Angwin's book

END GAME
i.m. Brian Louis Pearce

DISTINCTIVE VOICES
new books by Jesse Glass and Aaron Shurin

A HEART MADE OF STRING
new poems by Christine Brandel

A SHORT FIREWORK DISPLAY
Andy Brown reviews Elizabeth Willis

THE BIG TREES
Elaine Randell's Selected Poems

THREE FROM CARCANET
reviewed by Matt Simpson

LET THE REVELLS BEGIN
Jane Routh reviews Donald Revell

NOT THAT EITHER
Martin Corless-Smith's Swallows

UNCONCERNED – BUT NOT INDIFFERENT
Derek Adams' life of Man Ray

THE BACK OF BEYOND
The return of Geoff Hattersley

GHOST CHARACTERS
Peter Robinson sniffs the air

MY KIND OF PARTY
Luke Kennard on
Cecil Helman's prose poems


PREMIER LEAGUE
Jennie Feldman's The Lost Notebook

from MOVING WOODS
Peter Larkin takes root

STILL NO THUNDER TO SPEAK OF
new poems by Amy Stanbrook

ELUSIVE INTELLECTUALISM
Christopher Middleton's The Anti-Basilisk

TREADING LIGHTLY
Jacques Réda's Selected Poems

THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK

Ted Berrigan and New York Poets 2

EASING THE GRAVITY FIELD
Christopher Southgate's Lapse of Science

SOFTWAR OR HARDWAR
Tony Lopez on Alan Halsey's Marginalien

GALAXIES VANISHING BEFORE SEEN
Grahaeme Barrasford Young shifts time

RENOWN
prose poems by Carrie Etter

HOMELAND INSECURITY
Luke Kennard is over Jorie Graham

CHAOS THEORY
Peter Finch's Welsh Poems

FARAWAY SHORES
Michael Mc Carthy puts you in the mood

GONGS GALORE
Three new American collections

YEAR OF THE DOG
Business as usual for Martin Stannard

CONSORTING WITH ANGELS
Deryn Rees-Jones' new anthology and essays

HUNTING SILENCE

new poems by Rose Flint


WHAT IS DOUBLED
Giles Goodland on Peter Coles

ANCESTORS AND SPECIES
Tom Lowenstein's Ethnopoetics

AS CLOSE AS WE CAN GET
Colin Simms' American Poems

ARCHEOLOGICAL EPIPHANIES
Tom Chivers' Moor Voices

PLAYING WITH FIRE
William Oxley on Grevel Lindop

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TREND
new poems by Josef Lesser

from
CRABBED FLIGHT
prose poems by Richard Burns

IN THE VALLEYS
Martin Caseley on Skirrid Hill

from
THE LOPSIDED NOW
new poems by Margie Cronin

SWITHERING
Andy Brown on Robin Robertson

SAWN OFF TALES
by David Gaffney

A NEW STRANGENESS
A.C. Evans reviews
a new book on Symbolism


A BRIGHTNESS BETRAYED
Ian Seed on Brenda Hillman

THE EDITOR'S PICKS OF THE YEAR

THE MIRROR BEFORE IT BROKE
prose poems by Jennifer DiCamillo

DIALOGUES
poetry, nature, art & artists

VITAL PRESENCE
Fiona Owen on Arnolds Wood

PROPER SERIOUSNESS
Christopher Hampton and Peter Hay

HUMAN MATRIX
John Seed's New and Collected Poems

FROGS ON THE MOTORWAY
more from Philip Terry's Aesopocrypha

HOW OUR HOUSE IS TALLER
THAN OUR SKY IT KEEPS
new poems by Mark Goodwin

NOT ON MY XMAS WISH LIST
Nancy Crampton's Writers

HOME-BODIES
new books by Simon Curtis & Glyn Hughes

COFFEE TABLE NAVIGATION

Anvil's new sea anthology

DON'T SHOOT THE PIANIST
A.C. Evans on Lee Harwood's Tristan Tzara

SOMETIMES HAVING TO STAND NAKED
Clare Bateman's Leap by Andy Brown

SWIMMING IN THE SWISH
prose poems by Jennifer DiCamillo

from KOSTIK THE KILLER
new poems by Julia Istomina

OUTSIDER ART
Giles Goodland on Monika's Story

UNEXPECTED STATES OF MIND
Bruce Beasley & Kenneth Fields

LISA SAMUELS & ROSANNA WARREN

Reviewed by Michael Peverett

PADDOCKS & PASTORALS
Matt Simpson on John Kinsella

CARTOON CAPERS
Kevin Coyne's Suburban Angst

BEYOND PIETIES
new books by Robert Lax and David Miller

from
EX-CATALOGUE
prose poems and found prose poems

COMMON DENOMINATORS &
DISTINCT DIFFERENCES
Belinda Cooke on Russian Women Poets

HANGING AND QUARTERTERING
Giles Goodland reviews Geraldine Monk

A CRAGGY, UNFAMILIAR LANDSCAPE
Ted Hughes' Collected Poems

CRESSIDA: AN ISLE QUARTET
Tim Keane explores...

PERSISTENT OTHERWISE

new prose poems by Ian Seed

HOW TO BE A BUTTERFLY
Luke Kennard stings like a bee

DISAPPOINTMENTS & DELIGHTS
Rupert Loydell's recent reading

BARNETT, MUCKLE & SMITH
Christine Kennedy reviews a Shearsman trio

KIND OF INADEQUATE
AND A LITTLE GUILTY
Martin Stannard on JH Prynne

CULTURAL REVOLUTION
where thinking got Mark Robinson

LANDSCAPES WITHOUT MEMORY
Giles Goodland gets software envy

BUSILY WORKSHOPPING AWAY

Earnest bees and buzzing schools

DANGER: HIGH VOLTAGE
new poems by Mark Goodwin

from AESOPOCRYPHA
Fables and fictions by Philip Terry

FAITH IN POETRY

Martin Stannard

DAVID ANTIN & BRUCE SMITH
Ira Lightman reviews their new books

PARK LIFE
Matt Simpson reviews Surfacing

IMPERFECTIONS
and other poems by Jnana Hodson

OTHER VOICES BENEATH THE HAT-STAND
four poems by David Grubb

SPAN

a new poem by John F. Deane

CROSSING BORDERS
rob mclennan on a new Canadian anthology

UNKNOWABLE MEMORIES
two new photographic books

WHAT WE FIND IN OUR POCKETS
Tower and Stroke Association anthologies

ADDRESSING THE ENVELOPE
Juliana Spahr and Sarah Grigley

OVER THE HILL AND INTO THE WOOD

Geoffrey Hill and Hugh Wood

IN THE DARK BEFORE DAWN
Thomas Merton's New Selected Poems

JUNK AND GEMS
Alan Corkish is lost in a thicket

FORM AND SUBSTANCE

David Scott and David Harsent

WITH A HOLISTIC EYE
Sottsass 700 drawings

ANGER IS AN ENERGY
Alistair Fitchett on Jean Michel-Basquiat

THE UNTOLD HISTORY
OF THIS LAWLESS REGION
Paul Sutton is expectant

THE IVORY TOWER-BLOCK

Two Green Rose Books reviewed

A MIND-STRETCHING EXPERIENCE
The intellectual as poet: Michel Deguy's Recumbents

A CONSERVATIVE APPROACH
Alex Latter on David Constantine

HOLIDAY POSTCARDS

John Welch's On Orkney

THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
Martin Caseley reviews Roy Fisher

A RACEHORSE IN THE FACE
Van Der Graaf Generator reassessed

WOMEN IN THE WILDERNESS
Jane Hirshfield, Marilyn Hacker & Maxine Kumin

THE NEW MAPPED ONTO THE OLD

Allen Fisher's Place



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 LIGH
T
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 Kin
g

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 AWKWARDL
Y
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

WRONGFOOTED BY TITLES
new books from Nicole Cooley and Ruth Larbey

SOMETHING LIKE BREATHLESS
David Grubb and Rupert Loydell reviewed

HOW LITTLE YOU NEED
TO KNOW OF YOURSELF

Nikolai Duffy is being someone else

CULTURAL TRANSMISSIONS
David Hart on Aimé Césaire

THIS ASTEROID IS RELATIVELY SMALL
Steve Spence reports back
from strange and quiet places


HARES AND TURKEYS
John F. Deane and Carola Luther

A YEAR OF FLOWERS

Jane Routh on John Barnie

A WELCOME IMMIGRATION
Six Macedonian Poets

SCATTERED SEEDS AND A SPREAD MAP
Mark Burnhope on Laura Walker and Elena Rivera

NO EGRETS
'Technically flawless?' So what?

SPACE AND PLAY
Ian Seed celebrates Alan Baker's new book

EXPENSIVE IRISH WHIMSEY?
wonders Martin Caseley, faced with
Bernard O'Donoghue's new book


THIS POETRY IS FULL OF THINGS
Tim Allen has too many ideas

INTERNATIONAL STYLE
Two new translations set David Hart wondering

SIXTY STORIES TOO MANY
Michael Peverett's Miniature Moments

TRAINS, HIGHER PLANES & EXILE
River Wolton, Ian Pople, Sean O'Brien
reviewed by Mark Burnhope

A GESTURE, MADE OF ENDINGS
rob mclennan never wanted to stop

TAKE A MOMENT
Sean Colletti does,
to review Lesle Lewis & Ian Pindar


THE BECOMING SOUND
Joshua Jones on Ahren Warne's RE:

AN ITCH IN THE SOUL
Angela Topping scratches at
new books by Lucie Brock Broido, Les Murray,
Gladys Mary Coles and Milorad Krystanovich


IF YOU CAN'T HIT THE TARGET
YOU WILL ALWAYS BE AMISS
writes David Lawrence

EYES WIDE OPEN
at the Bilbao Guggenheim

SOFT FOCUS SWEEP
new books from Ian Seed and Jeremy Reed

NO EQUIVALENT
David Hart on From Unwritten Histories

DOUBLE (& TRIPLE) FULCRA
by Richard Kostelanetz

AS AUSTERITY MEASURES BITE
Peter Dent is asymmetric

WANDERING AROUND
Sean Coletti on August Kleinzahler
and Robert Sheppard


IT'S HARD TO HOLD THE PAST IN PLACE
USING A ROPE OF FOG

John Mingay reviews new books
by Harry Guest and David Harsent


DEATHS & LIFETIMES PASSING SLOWLY
four new poetry titles considered

AMNEOIR, ABSTRACTIONS, ATKINS
Sam Murphy gets alliterative with three new books

EXCITING TIMES
Burn, Baby, [Sean] Burn

MARTIN STANNARD REFLECTS & TRANSCENDS

Steve Spence, Joshua Jones & Carrie Etter


BEFORE THE DUST GETS US
Martin Caseley on Chris McCully

MAKING STATEMENTS
David Hart reviews Nasos Vayena and Gonca Ozmen

LIVING AND DEAD, LAND AND SEA,
FEATHERS AND FINS
Mark Burnhope reviews three new titles

A BIT OF EXISTENTIALIST FARTING
Bobby Parker and Daniel Pantano

ADDED TO THE MIX

Steve Spence on some new poetry books

TONIGHT NO POETRY WILL SERVE
Jane Routh can't not read Adrienne Rich

BIG SOUND CLEVER SOUND
Stephen Betts' skronks and squawks

ALL MOMENTS LESS AND LONGER
new poems by Christopher Keller

THE ROMANTIC DOGS
reviewed by Sian Rathore

WORDS, WHITE SPACE AND WILL
Silk, Shame and Shakespeare

YEARS MEAN NOTHING NOW
not to Simon Perchik

THE CURE OF FOLLY

and other OuLiPoems by Andy Brown

BEYOND THE BOX
Anne Carsons and Robert Alan Jamieson

ANYTHING CAN BE SAID,
NOTHING MUCH IS

David Hart wants to be there with the author


MOTORBIKES AND NATURE
D.M. Black's Claiming Kindred

THE SEVEN DEADLY GUIDELINES
David Alpaugh's editorial advice

A FEW DON'TS
Sian S. Rathore on a new Ezra Pound Selected

AN ALPHABET BOOK
Christopher Gutkind's Options

THE PRESENT DAY
Ryan Scott on Ernesto Priego

A FAIR SHOUT
Joel Lane's The Autumn Myth

MEL GIBSON IS A TREE
hydrodaktulo psychic harmonica

SANDY MAGGOTS BY THE HOUR
Kym Martindale reviews Penelope Shuttle
and Paul Muldoon's new books


SIGNAL LEVEL INFERENCE
Peter Larkin is 'Between Branches'

BLUE MILLION MILES
i.m. Captain Beefheart

DON AND DUSTED
reviews of new collections
by Christopher Middleton and Ian Davidson


A TRIPTYCH OF REVIEWS
Stephen Bett, Mary Leader, Chad Sweeney

RADICAL SPACES
David Kennedy reviews three new critical books

THE PLACE WHERE YOU GO TO LISTEN
charting John Luther Adams' creative genesis

THE OPEN CAGE OF POETRY
Ben Parker is in Metato

FALLEN PLUMS AND PULLED TEETH
Howard Giskin on Annie Freud and John Whale

THE EDITOR'S PICKS
A personal best of 2010

LOOKING BACK FOR A LONG TIME
Christian Hawkey's Ventrakl

THE ARM STRIKES BACK
Dom Jaeckle's Faithless Arm & Co.

ROTH AS POET
Ira Lightman on Nemesis

HARD-WIRED
David Hart on Jean Follain and Ludwig Steinherr

'I, THE ATROCITY'
Pascal Petit's Kahlo

MR SYNTAX DOES NOT ALWAYS SELL OUT
but he can dream, says Robert Ensor

THE DODO EXISTS IN MY HOUSE
says Jonathan Reid

WELL-PRUNED
Jane Routh on new books from
Mark Goodwin and Daniel Johnson


THEATRE OF THE ABSURD
Paul Sutton on Jesse Glass

OK BUT
Forty Lies reviewed

UNDERCURRENT

Requiem for a Dream // 102

A SPLENDID JOB
Roddy Lumsden's Identity Parade

SKIN NEVER FORGETS
Ian Seed braves it on the bus

LEARNING THE LANGUAGE
Recent art books reviewed

DEFLATED EGO 9
Jane Routh on Jane Routh

from THE BOOK OF ISAAC
five sonnets by Aidan Semmens

PACK A POET IN YOR SUITCASE
Angela Topping reviews
three new poetry collections


OH WELCOME COMPLEXITY
Paul Sutton on Blandine Longre

SHUT YOUR MOUTH
AND SAVE YOUR LIFE
says Bobby Parker

JUST DO IT
John Ashbery collected

THE NECESSITY OF FAILURE
David Pollard on Mario Petrucci

VIPERS!
James McLaughlin opens
A Music Box of Snakes


BROKEN SIGNALS
Cindytalk interviewed

CONFLICTING ACCOUNTS
Martin Stannard has forgotten
how to play the violin


EARTHBOUND, BUT LOOKING UP
M.C. Caseley reviews Seamus Heaney

DEFLATED EGO 8
Philip Terry on Philip Terry

HEARING VOICES
David Hart reviews new translations

TRANSPORTED, OVERWHELMED
& PARADIDDLED
new poetry reviewed

QUIET SUBVERSIONS
Robert Sheppard's The Given

THE PARALYTIC CHILD
by Paul Stubbs

ARGUING WITH THE SCIENCE LOBBY
David Kennedy reviews Dove Release

HE KNOWS HOW TO ELBOW HIS WAY
INTO ETERNITY'S REFRIGERATOR
does John Greiner

A TRIP FROM HERE TO THERE
Brion Gysin: Dream Machine

THUNDER & CONVERSATIONS DISAPPEAR
in David Lawrence's poems

JAMES McLAUGHLIN'S TREE
always nearly

FAB FABBRO
David Kennedy reviews Adrian Clarke

DEFLATED EGO 7
David Briggs on David Briggs

ANNOTATED NOTES FROM ABROAD
David Toop's Sinister Resonance

SPARSE SOUL
Damian Furniss and Jim Goar

SPLIT LOYALTIES
Rob Young's Electric Eden and
Brandon Labelle's Acoustic Territories


POEMS FOR GRAVE DIGGERS
Tim Peeler is betting on the monkey man

ARLENE ANG, JUDY KENDALL
& LINDA FRANCE
reviewed by Howard Giskin

CRAWL TO THE MAILBOX
John Cash, Dylan & Rimbaud
in new poems by R.L. Greenfield

A KIND OF CONFUSION,
A KIND OF REVIEW
David Grubb's The Fire Child

HURRAH, ARSE-HORNS,
LONG LIVE PERE UBU!

David Kennedy on Alfred Jarry

BURSTING THE BOX
Reginald Dwayne Betts' new book

MIXED REACTIONS
Paul Sutton on David Kennedy

DICTIONARY OF DRIFT
Exploring Restless Cities

WRITING THE LOVED WORLD
new books by Chase Twitchell,
Darragh Breen and Doris Jareva

PAUL SUTTON IS THE REAL THING
says Martin Stannard

GOOD STUFF
Jack Underwood's Faber New Poets 4

FISHING FOR BEGINNERS
new books by James Bell,
Rhys Trimble and Damian Furniss


STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL
new books by Peter Finch,
Michael Haslam and Scott Thurston


SOME UNCUT PAGES
An Unofficial Roy Fisher

THE 'CONSCIENCE-RIDDEN' TRADITION
OF BRITISH SOCIALISM
Prakash Kona on Alan Morrison

TREES HAVE SUFFERED FOR THIS
new Acumen and Faber pamphlets

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD MIND

A.C. Evans on an alien art work

THE POWER OF HAVING FUN
an interview with Steve Spence

START A FIRE AT THE EDGE OF DARKNESS
new poems by Ian Seed

POWER PLAYS IN THE LIFE WORLD
Cyberliberties and Controlled Vocabularies

SO MANY UNSAIDS
an interview with Paul Sutton

AMERICAN IMMORTALS
David Kennedy on Burroughs & Cage

FARM BOY
Todd Boss' Yellowrocket

MAGIC IS PESSIMISIM
TAKEN TO ITS LOGICAL CONCLUSION

New poems from Nathan Thompson

EROTIC POEMS
Ira Lightman on e.e. cummings

CAUSES FOR CELEBRATION
Four Zimbabwean Poets & Grace Nichols

BARKING AT THE SHAPE OF AIR
Ian Seed and prose-poem possibilities

THE METAPHORICAL PIRATE
Nathan Thompson on Steve Spence

CONVERSATIONAL TONES
Louise Gluck's Village Life

CATCHING THE CROSSLIGHT
Peter Gillies on Edward Hopper

ON CLASSIFICATION
On Alasdair Paterson

UNCAGED SEA
Scott Thurston on John Goodby

MADNESS IN HIS METHOD
David Briggs' new collection

UNORIGINALITY & SIMON ARMITAGE
Paul Sutton is Seeing Stars

GRIM MEMBRANES
Robert Fontella is With Deer

LOOPY LUPIN & TALITY TALES

from Duncan Gillies MacLaurin

CH-CH-CHANGES?
Lorca, Neruda & Tsvetayeva

APATHY FULL STOP
Nick Kent, Barry Miles and Identity Parade
fail to interest. Bob Hicok does


DOES YOUR ENGLISH LET YOU DOWN?
let Steve Spence help