Spring 2013

Editorial by Colette Bryce, Poetry Editor
Poetry Matters

Poems

Ian Duhig
Half the Story • Still White Page • Dependant

Luis Rosales
The Name That Creates Us

Rebecca Perry
Pow

Sean O’Brien
Passage for New Holland • Lamplight

David Wheatley
from ‘The Reed Bunting Unseen’

Maya C Popa
The Lyric I

Tamar Yoseloff
Knotweed

Christina Dunhill
The Power of The Monarchy

Helen Mort
An Easy Day for a Lady

Helen Mort
Admit you feel like all the ice skates in Brazil • Oldham’s Burning Sands

Richard Scott
Sandcastles

Henry Shukman
Motherland

Henry Shukman
The Golden Dragon

Patrick Brandon
Trippen

David Morley
Fugitive

Robin Robertson
Finding the Keys • Flags and Salutes • The Ghost of Actaeon

Dannie Abse
Scent

Fiona Benson
Ghostfire • High Meadow Path • Cricket, August 2012

Pascale Petit
Sainte-Chapelle • Emmanuel

Matthew Gregory
A Room in the Pacific Palisades, 1979

Michael Symmons Roberts
Portrait of the Psalmist in Mid-life • Portrait of the Psalmist as a Man in Tears • Asleep in the Back • Fin de Siècle

Susan Wicks
April is the month for cutting up a map with scissors

Reviews & Features

A Difficult Love
Luke Kennard on Samuel Beckett the poet

Ideas About Things and Things Themselves
Helen Mort on knowledge shared by Jorie Graham, Sharon Olds and D Nurkse

From the Mild Blue Yonder
Bill Manhire on journeys to the Southern Hemisphere by Christopher Reid and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

Frontiers Through Every Word
Sue Hubbard on language and political distress in collections by Abdellatif Laâbi, Ingeborg Bachmann and Manuel Rivas

‘I Think Clarity Is the Way to Go’
Don Paterson talks to Ahren Warner

The Passionate Transitory
David Wheatley on first collections by Sam Riviere, William Letford, Oli Hazzard and Andrew Bailey

The Flickering Birch
Edward Larrissy on Tom Paulin and Paul Durcan in a changing Ireland

Who Is the Boy in the Picture?
Rory Waterman on approaches to the past in new collections by Andrew Motion, Helen Dunmore and Stephen Knight

Everything Appeared To Be Connected
Martyn Crucefix on vision and exile in the poetry of James Harpur, Adam Thorpe and Julia Copus

Drawn from Life
Karen McCarthy Woolf on innovative collections by Barry Hill, Sean Borodale and Jacob Sam-La Rose

Teaching the Poetic Encounter
Julia Bird on support for the developing writer from Glyn Maxwell, Penned in the Margins and the Arvon Foundation