Published by Magdalen College 46pp
edited by Mark Wormald(2)
no preface

Books recieved; In brief (news items); Notes on contributors.

Contents

John Hughes: Murder: American Style;

Susan Wicks: Mad Scientist;

Tim Love: Imagination;

Rebecca Elson: Constellations;

Mara Bergman: Bleaching of the Linen;

Michael Thomas: Dungraftin;

David Wilson: Debtors and Lovers;

Caroline Blyth: Speaking in Tongues: an Interview with John Ashbery;

Kate Thomas: "It's to do with orientation"; Entertainment; "We come wrapped";

Elizabeth Garrett: Interregnum;

Stan Jacoby: Bystander;

Alan Hester: From "Excavations;

Eugene Dubnov: Face in the Darkness [translated from the Russian by Peter Porter and the author];

Vona Groarke: Insomnia (after Marina Tsvetayeva);

David Norbrook: Tracks;

Ian Sansom: Judgement and Mercy: a review of "Pierrot", by Harry Smart;

David Pascoe: The Hollow Men: a review of "Uncollected Poems", by Basil Bunting, ed. Richard Caddel, and "Collected Poems", by Henry Reed, ed. Jon Stallworthy;

Christiania Whitehead: Green But Pleasant: a review of "Beneath the Wide Wide Heaven: Poetry of the Environment from Antiquity to the Present", ed. Sara Dunn with Alan Scholefield;

Howard Wright: A Closer Look; Civitas;

Mark Ford: Daily;

Peter Ben Jones: Oversins and Overshoots;

Charlotte Clutterbuck: Parlement of Birds;

David Santer: Man in a Grey Suit;

Michael Henry: On This Day;

Nigel Jarrett: A Shepherd Learns to Read;

Ian Parks: I'll Light a Candle for You; A Window to the West; Last Days;