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NEW POETRY C.H. Sisson / 10 Sujata Bhatt / 15 Mimi Khalvati / 27 Alison Brackenbury / 36
Jenni Daiches / 45 Grevel Lindop / 53
Donald Davie
THE CARNALITY OF CHARLES WESLEY / 10
Nicolas Tredell
ROGER SCRUTON IN CONVERSATION / 46
Francis Berry THE SIRENS: RITE OF PASSAGE / 31
Roger Little
FOREVER ALIEN? — THE PROSE POEM / 34
Clive Wilmer
TONY HARRISON IN CONVERSATION / 28
Grevel Lindop
NEWTON, RAYMOND TALLIS AND THE THREE CULTURES / 36
Raymond Tallis
NEWTON'S SLEEP: A REPLY TO GREVEL LINDOP / 42
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EDITORIAL 3
NEWS & NOTES 3
LETTERS from Michael Hulse, David
Morley, Glyn Maxwell, Herbert Lomas, Alan Massey, Raymond Tallis, Neil Powell, John Powell Ward 4
REPORTS W h e r e W o r d s E n d (Brian Morton) 7 C om m e n t (C.H. Sisson) 8 D a n c in g W ith D a n g e r : A n d r e B r e to n a n d La
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REVIEWS Patricia Beer on Norman MacCaig 53 T.J.G. Harris on R.S. Thomas 54 David Kennedy on Peter Abbs, George
Macbeth, George Szirtes, John Fuller, Gerard Woodward 55 Neil Powell on Wizards of Oz
(Anthologies) 56 Keith Silver on Tony Harrison 57 John Pilling on Pablo Neruda and Edith
Sodergran 58 Gregory Woods on E n g e n d e r in g M an 59 Nicolas Tredell on Christine Brooke-Rose and J. Hillis Miller 60 Richard Francis on Mark Twain 63 John Pilling on Primo Levi 64