Summer 2007

Editorial by Martha Kapos, Assistant Poetry Editor
In Finders Keepers Seamus Heaney gives a poignant account of the anxiety he experienced when he first encountered the poetry of TS Eliot.

Poems

Chase Twichell
Savin Rock

Chase Twichell
Snow-globe of Vesuvius

Jessica Greenbaum
Gratitude’s Anniversary

Jessica Greenbaum
Seeing Stars

Markus Lloyd
The Lay-by

Markus Lloyd
Recalling a Country Girl

Ciaran Carson
Redoubt • Treaty

Diana Pooley
Diachrony

Robert Saxton
Mayfly Menopause

Jamie McKendrick
In the Year of the Blue Angel • The Canary Principle • The Book of Names

Penelope Shuttle
Map Officer

D Nurkse
Trial Marriage • At High Falls • The Resistance

Dennis Casling
Winging It • The Burglar’s Wife

Coral Bracho
from That space, that garden (Section VIII)

Jemma Borg
The Decoration • A strangely dressed murmur of water

Patrick Brandon
The Full Kit • En Plein Air • Dolphin

Jane Hirshfield
A Thought • Sheep • Everything Has Two Endings

Valeria Melchioretto
Wintering

Sam Riviere
Observation of a Neanderthal Colony

Julian Turner
In the Attic at Work

Kelly Grovier
The Shed

John Kinsella
Horse Sculpture in Northam Town Park

Christian Campbell
Leaving Treasure Beach

Reviews & Features

A Doubled Good Read
Marilyn Hacker’s pleasure in Bishop’s unpublished poems

Three Exraordinary New Collections
George Szirtes on new books from Elaine Feinstein, Ian Duhig and Elizabeth Cook

Astonishing Poems
Kathryn Maris enjoys work by Daljit Nagra, Caroline Bird and John Haynes

Tattered England, Troubled Ireland
DM Black on Brownjohn’s and Longley’s Collected

Poems Sassy or Meaningless
Martyn Crucefix reads new collections by Tamar Yoseloff, Linda Chase and John Ashbery

WH Auden’s Centenary
Peter Porter’s powerful celebration of Auden

Home as the Subject of Poetry
Paul Farley assays collections by Caroline Carver, Robert Seatter and Jane Routh