Published by Magdalen College 32pp
edited by Mark Wormald(2) with Sarah Dence, Bernard O'Donoghue, Janice Whitten
no preface

This issue contains early poems by Christiania Whitehead, whose first collection was to be one of the most praised poetry books of 1999. Although Oxford Poetry had by now become a magazine open to contributions from all comers, it continued also to catch poets in the University who would go on to great things, and Christiania is a good example.

Contents

Christiania Whitehead: Brutus' Last Song; Homily; Expectation-Klimt;

Jon Stallworthy: Interview by Peter McDonald;

Nicholas Jacobs: Demon in the Garden; from the Liber Facetarium of Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (Tale CLXVII; Tale CCXXV);

B. C. Leale: A Fine Day on the Island; Dancing Attendance on the Great Masters;

Maeve McGuckian, as Medbh McGuckian: Anna's Lane; Displaced to the Blue; Garbo at the Gaumont; Gigot Sleeves;

Paul Durcan: Interview by Christiania Whitehead; John Field Visits His Seventy-Eight-Year-Old Widowed Mother; Family Planning Clinic, Easter Sunday Morning;

Toby Litt: The Journey;

Stewart Brown: Mimic Man; Pope;

R. N. Allan: Katabasis; Ham Actor;

Stephen Knight: When the Summer Goes Up In Flames;