CONTENTS
1 Editorial 2 News & Notes 3 Letter from James Keery
Reports
Poems
Lawrence Sail 4 Sincerely
Sam Adams 5 Letter from Wales Nicolas Tredell 7 Jean-François Lyotard Nicolas Tredell 8 Boris Ford
Sophie Hannah 9 Three Poems
U
Ján Ondrus 15 Three Poems (translated by James Sutherland-Smith and
Martin Solotruk)
Alison Brackenbury 21 Seven Poems
Grevel Lindop 25 Three Poems
Val Warner 26 After the Memorial Service Anne Stevenson 30 Spring Poem Patrick Mackie 30 A Translation (i.m. Octavio Paz)
Paul Wilkins 31 Four Poems Robert Minhinnick 36 Two Poems
Steven Blyth 37 Three Poems Helen Farish 41 Four Poems Owen Gallagher 42 Four Poems
Articles
Frederic Raphael 10 Notes Towards a Definition of Culturelessness
Iain Bamforth 17 Learning to Sprawl Peter Scupham 22 Shelf Lives: 1: Keith Douglas Caroline Sylge 27 Robert Pinsky in Conversation
Clive Wilmer 32 On Ignorance
John Pilling 38 Rilke Before Malte Chris McCully 43 Against Transcendental Gossip: the symbolic language of rhythm
Reviews
Justin Quinn 46 on Hart Crane’s Correspondence Andrew Zawacki 47 on Derek Walcott’s The Bounty
Vona Groarke 49 on Ruth Sharman, Patricia Beer, William Stafford and
Charles Tomlinson
Brian Henry 51 on Anna Rabinowitz David C. Ward 52 on John Koethe Michael Duggan 52 on Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Joe Allard 53 on The Complete Sagas of Icelanders Jeremy Keens 55 on Douglas Hofstadter’s Le Ton beau de Marot
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