Autumn 2009 | Vol. 45 Issue 2

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Features:
Nerys Williams on the horror of the Long Poem.
Robert Minhinnick on the Llynfi Valley
Matthew Jarvis and John Kinsella in dialogue about Welsh environments.
John Goodby on the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

Also, translations by John Barnie, Fflur Dafydd and Pascale Petit, and poems by Frances Presley, Peter Larkin, Mark Goodwin, Christopher Nield, Jason Ranon Uri Rotstein, Katherine Stansfield, Anna Lewis, Linda Black, Vuyelwa Carlin, Kevin Cantwell, John Kinsella, Peter Hughes and Carol Watts, Cliff Forshaw, Annemarie Austin, Margaret Kelly, and James Methven – Purple Moose Prize Winner 2009.

There’s also a bumper reviews section this issue:
Tim Liardet on collections by Damian Walford Davies and Richard Marggraf Turley.
Alison Brackenbury on Ian Gregson.
Fiona Owen reviewing Ruth Bidgood and John Powell Ward.
Richard Marggraf Turley appraising four new poetry collections.
Tony Frazer on translations of Victor Rodríguez Núñez and Petr Borkovec.
Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese on European poetry.
Peter Hughes on the latest from Harry Guest and Sirol Troup.