Stella Halkyard  –  Pictures from a Library, cover • Editorial , p.1 • News and Notes , p .3

reports • Gabriel Josipovici  –  Life and the Novel, p.5 • Vahni Capildeo  – Echoes from a Conference on Crisis, p.6 • John Clegg  –  Some trees and some further trees,  p.9 • Sam Adams  –  Letter from Wales, p.10 • R. F. Langley  –  Here one begins again, p.11

poems and features • Nyla Matuk  –  Clouds and Privilege, p.13 • Jena Schmitt  –  Sides Unseen, p.15 • John Greening  –  Empire, p.20 • Joe Carrick-Varty  –  The Father Heavens, p.22 • Jee Leong Koh  –  Palinodes in the Voice of My Dead Father, p.23 • Kirsty Gunn  –  Essaying On…, p.26 • Maureen N. McLane  –  Two Poems, p.29 • Robert Minhinnick  –  A History of Sunburn, p.30 • Rachel Hadas  –  Something Momentous like a War, p.31 • Paul Stephenson  –  Day Hectic and other poems, p.36 • Katriona Feinstein  –  Elaine, p.38 • William Logan  –  Genesis and other poems, p.39 • Richard Gwyn  –  With Lowry in Cuernavaca, p.40 • Evan Jones  –  translates Cavafy, p.45 • Matthias Fechner  –  An incomplete history of contemporary German-language poetry, p.47 • Sharron Hass  –  The Day After: an Essay on Sophocles’ Farewell to Poetry, p.53

reviews • Oliver Dixon on Michael Hofmann , p.72 • Evan Jones on Layli Long Soldier, p.73 • Ian Pople on Karen Solie, Medbh McGuckian and Maya C. Popa, p.74 • Joe CarrickVar t y on Arji Manuelpillai, p.76 • Brian Morton on John Montague, p.76 • David C. Ward on Patty Crane, p.77 • Rory Waterman on Keith Hutson, p.78 • Edmund Prestwich on Giovanni Pascoli, p.79

Andrew Latimer–in conversation with Emily Benton, Intelligent Design, cover

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