Summer 2003 | Vol. 39 Issue 1

Description

Features:

Lyndon Davies looks at Iraqi Poetry Today and the stresses of the East
Meic Stephens remembers Ted Joans
John Lucas interrogates Dannie Abse’s New and Collected Poems.
Also, Sam Adams writes to Poetry Wales editor Robert Minhinnick in response to John Lucas’s review (38.4) of Roland Mathias’s Collected Poems.

Poems by Saadi Yousef, Ghassan Zaqtan, Peter Redgrove, Landeg White, Leslie Norris, Sarah Kirsch, Sasha Dugdale, Michael Arnold Williams, Sam Adams, Viki Homes, Anna Wigley, Dorothy Molloy, John Hartley Williams, Andrew Craig Williams, Kimbeerely Burwick, John Barnie, Carrie Etter, Margot Farrington, Paul Henry, Melanie Challenger, Alan Mumford, John Livingstone Clark, Lloyd Robson, Henning Ahrens, Mahohar Shetty, John Lee Grenfell, Stephanie Cleveland.

Reviews

Kathryn Gray on Carole Rumen’s Hex
New poetry collections are scrutinized by Wayne Burrows
Reviews on titles by Jamie McKendrick, Joe Sherrin, Anne Stevenson and Tomaz Salamun.