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Editorial News & Notes m Letters from Anthony Rudolf, William Cooksonand

Rupert M. Loydell

Lawrence Sail

Penny McCarthy

Reports

The Hole in the Flag

Letter from Bransonia

Sam Adams m Letter from Wales Peter Finch m Oriel into H.M.S.O. David Wheatley m Letter from Ireland fames Sutherland-Smith m letterfrom Slovakia

Marius Kociejowski

Audrey Nicholson

Articles

Donald Davie From the Marches o f Christendom: Mandelstam & Milosz Patrick McGuinness Mallarme's Pour un tombeau d’Anatole

Frederic Raphael

A Century and its Myths

Jeremy Hooker To Fit a Late Time: a reading o f Five American Poets Raymond Tallis Metaphysics and Gossip: Notes Towards a Manifesto f o r a Novel o f the Future

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Poems

Tom Leonard m To Have Access to the Silence

James Tate

Nine Poems

Elaine Feinstein

Oktay Rifat

Seven Poems

Three Poems (translated from Turkish by Christopher Middleton)

Alison Brackenbury m A Short Story

Donald Hall m Mighty Poets / 2 Patrick McGuinness Three Poems Sanjeev Richhariya m Three Poems

Barbara Folkart m Three Poems

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David Arkell JoJm Pilling Sam Adams Michael Grant Matthew Francis

Justin Quinn Marcella Edwards

Ra Page David Kennedy m

Reviews on Jules Laforgue on JohnAshbery, Yves Bonnefoy and Osip Mandelstam on David Jones on Christine Brooke-Rose on W.S. Graham m on Derek Mahon and Frank Ormsby m m on U.A. Fanthorpe on John Montague on David Kinloch

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