Summer 2008

Editorial by Martha Kapos, Assistant Poetry Editor
In an episode in Remembrance of Things Past Proust places his narrator in a strange hotel room at Balbec-Plage.

Poems

Pauline Stainer
Words • Dove Cottage • Sakurafubuki • Deer coming to water unseen • The Whitening • Quandal • Moonfield • The Apple House

Pauline Stainer
The Whitening

Michael Symmons Roberts
Man in a Fox Suit • Fox in a Man Suit

Martyn Crucefix
Water-lily

Ashley Capps
Absconditus • Say One thing and Mean • Citizens

Jay Rogoff
The Earth

Tom Sleigh
On First Avenue and Sixth Street

Moniza Alvi
Mermaid • Europa’s Dream

Rachel Hadas
In the Drawer • In-flight Movie

Greta Stoddart
Salvation Jane

Robin Robertson
The Plague Year

Polly Clark
Kilcreggan

Steven Heighton
Herself, Revised

Chris Beckett
Poem to the lucky boy

Toon Tellegen
A Man and an Angel, studies for a poem

Marianne Boruch
It isn’t that serious before dawn, trees • Memory must be viral • I am so pissed, said god, maybe • I woke in rain to old war footage

Pascale Petit
Frozen Horses • Slipper Orchids of China • Creation of the Trees

Fergus Chadwick
Handshake

Shirin Razavian
Arvin

Carol Rumens
Gift

Simon Richey
from Naming the Tree

C L Dallat
Lido Café

Emily Berry
Her Inheritance

Siriol Troup
The Penance of St John Chrysostom

Reviews & Features

The Condition of Music
WN Herbert observes how pattern shapes narrative for Ciaran Carson, Catherine Smith and Tom Pow

Travelling without Leaving
Martyn Crucefix explores the development of Guy Goffette, Michael Hofmann and Peter Robinson

The Art of Detachment
Anne-Marie Fyfe on engagements with feeling in Maggie Sawkins, Jackie Kay and Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Wordlessly Came Death
Tom Chivers finds depth beneath the surface energy of ‘fusion’ poets Todd Swift, Nick Laird and Mario Petrucci

Grace and Authenticity
Peter Robinson asks if flaws can be felicities for Janet Frame, Bernard O’Donoghue and Alison Brackenbury

New Tongues
Katy Evans-Bush on how Katia Kapovich and Valeria Melchioretto enrich their adopted language

Beyond Puff and Posture
Nathan Hamilton introduces first collections by Simon Barraclough, Isobel Dixon and Adam Foulds

Loud is the New Quiet
Kathryn Maris contrasts Sasha Dugdale, Deborah Garrison and Sujata Bhatt

Two Things at Once
E A Markham (1939–2008)