Summer 2008 | Vol. 44 Issue 1

Description

Features an account of ‘Alternative’ poetry since the Second Flowering by Matthew Jarvis, an essay on John James and the industrial south Welsh heartland by Wendy Mulford, Harry Gilonis on his unHealed poems, and Tiffany Atkinson on the Creative Act.

Poems by Damian Walford Davies, Liz Berry, Morten Søndergaard (translated from the Danish by John Barnie), Kelly Grovier, David Annwn, J. Brookes, Carrie Etter, Colette Bryce, John James, Tiffany Atkinson, Richard Marggraf Turley, Steve Griffiths, Deryn Rees-Jones, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, Krystyna Milob?dzka (translated by Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese), Nerys Williams, Harry Gilonis, Carol Watts, Kit Fan, Andrew Pidoux, Claire Crowther and Alison Brackenbury.

Reviews by Tim Liardet of Sujata Bhatt and Alison Brackenbury; Andrew Duncan on Lynette Roberts’ diaries, letters and recollections; Iwan Llwyd on Menna Elfyn’s new and selected poems; John Tanner explores nostalgic Welsh-American experience in Other Land; six Czech poets are considered by Robyn Marsack; Peter Finch on Peter Riley and Landscape from a Dream by Elisabeth Bletsoe; and Carrie Etter reviews Lens in the Palm by Kelly Grovier and Mandeville by Matthew Francis.