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Alan Baker, Editor
Sandra Tappenden
Three poems
Ian Brinton
Poetry - "Adultery, A Sonnet"
Robert Sheppard
Poetry - "Burnt Journals"
Martin Stannard
Poetry - from "The Review"
Review
Review - "DTR" by Annabel Banks
Review
Review - "Table of Contents I" by Bruno Neiva
Review
Review - "Floss" by Sarah Crewe
Steve Spence
Poems
John Welch
Poems
Jonathan Wooding
Poems
Lucia Daramus
Poems
Maria Stadnicka
Poems
Agnes Lehóczky
Poems
Review
Called to the Edge" ed. Lucy Lepchani
Review
"Certain Manoeuvres" by Lydia Unsworth
Review
The Edge of Necessary: an anthology of welsh innovative poetry (1966-2018)
Review
"Rages of the Carbolic" by Clive Gresswell
Review
"Mirrorball" by John Muckle
Review
"An Arbitrary Line" by Sarah Cave
Review
Ohad Ben Shimon takes his readers on a contemporary Gold Rush
Review
"A Year at Work" by Erkembode
Review
"Many Red Fish" by Steve Spence
Review
"Prima Materia" by Thom Boulton
Review
"Spring in the Hospital" by Luke Palmer
Review
"Rabbit" by Sophie Robinson
Review
"Hiraeth: Tercets from the Lost Archipeligo" by Eileen Tabios
Review
"Lost Sonnets" and Composite Lost Sonnets" by Catherine Vidler
Review
"Professions" by Mike Ferguson
Review
"HAP: Understudies of Thomas Wyatt’s Petrarch" by Robert Sheppard
Peter Dent
Four Poems
Review
“like fragile clay” by Sarah Cave
Review
“Chokey” by Rosy Carrick
Review
“In the Gemini Café” by Neil Campbell
Review
Review - "The Return of the Doom-Headed Three" by Daniel Y. Harris & Rupert M. Loydell
Review
Review - "Eighteen Psalms", by Edward Clarke
Review
"The River and the Black Cat" by James Sutherland-Smith
Mark Goodwin
Two poems from the sequence "Cromwell's Tongue"
Review
"Oswald's Book of Hours" by Steve Ely
Review
"Items" by Martin Stannard
Review
"The Unmoving" by Maria Stadnicka
Review
"Mapping Mark Totterdel"
Review
"Silent Years" by Alasdair Paterson
Review
"When Blue Light Falls" by Carol Watts
Tim Allen
Four poems from "Mattered by Tangents"
Ian Brinton and Michael Grant
A version of a sonnet by Mallarmé
Review
"A Long and Hard Night Troubled by Visions" by Tom Jenks
Review
"When We Were Almost Like Men" by Martin Hayes
Review
Two pamphlets from Zarf Editions
Review
"Remains To Be Seen" by David Rushmer
Review
"Cusp" - Recollections of Poetry in Transition
Review
The Selected Poems of Andrew Ducan
Janet Sutherland
Visual poem
Four poems
Lacina Khadijah
Four poems
Vicky Sparrow
Poem
Review
"more flinching" by Heather Phillpson
Review
"The Confessions" by Christopher Deweese
Review
Peter Riley reviews contemporary classical music by Philip Venables
Review
"High Cut" by Patricia Farrell
John James feature
"Sarment: Selected Poems" by John James
Andrew Taylor: A tribute to John James, 1939-2018
Ian Brinton: A Poem (for John James)
Andrew Taylor: A Poem (for John James)
Márton Koppány
A Poem on a new law in Hungary
John McCollough
Three Poems
Norman Jope
Prose pieces from Hungary
Review
"The Masses" by Giles Goodland
Review
"An Ocean Of Static" by J. R. Carpenter
Review
"The Sex of Art" by Frances Presley
Review
"Passing The Story Down The Line" by Robert Etty
Review
"Touching Distance" by Tim Youngs
Review
"Field" by Harriet Tarlo
Peter Hughes
Four poems from his new sequence "Entrainment"
Review
"Autistic Alice" by Joanne Limburg
Interview
Neil Fulwood interviews Joanne Limburg
Review
"Article 50" by Kelvin Corcoran
Márton Koppány
Fall Leaves
The Seer
The
Translation
Walking
Review
Translations of two Mexican poets
Review
Dorothy Lehane, Frances Presley and Paul Sutton
Paul Sutton
Poem
Review
Review - Peter Dent
Review
Review - Rupert M Loydell
Review
Review - Trevor Joyce
Review
Review - Billy Cancel
Patricia Farrell
Four poems
Nathan Spoon
Poem
Review
Review -“Jargon Busters” by Clive Gresswell
Review
Review -“Between So Many Words” by Ric Hool
Review
Review - “The Long Ago And Eternal Now” by Bill Lewis
Review
Review - "March" by Andrew Taylor
Martin Stannard
Translations from the Chinese
D A Prince
Poems
Kathleen Bell
Poems
Steve Spence
Review of "The Best of All Possible Worlds" by Damian Furniss
Harriet Tarlo
Poem
Review
Review - "Tan Raptures" by Alan Morrison"
Review
Review - "The Diversification of Dave Turnip" by Paul Sutton
Review
Review - "The Number Poems" by Matthew Welton
Review
Review - "They Who Saw The Deep" by Geraldine Monk
Review
Four Poems
Review
Review - "The Shape of Faith" by John Philips
Andrew Duncan
Review - Bruce Wilkinson's history of the poetic Underground in Blackburn and Preston
Drew Milne
Three poems from "Lichens for Marxists"
Steve Spence
Review of a first collection by Gram Joel Davies
Aaron Tieger
Poem
Norman Jope
Four prose poems
Review
Review - Petrarch 3 by Robert Sheppard
Eileen Tabios Feature
Introduction
Interview with Eileen Tabios
Review of "I Forgot Arts Poetica / Am Uitat Arta Poetică"
Review of "The Opposite of Claustrophobia"
Four New Poems by Eileen Tabios
Rebecca Forster, artist, and Simon Marsh, poet
Introduction
Art / Poetry collaboration - ping 16
Art / Poetry collaboration - ping 17
Art / Poetry collaboration - ping 18
Pam Thompson
Four poems
Steve Spence
Review - "Under The Cliff Like" by Tim Allen
Colin Winborn
Poem
Sandra Tappenden
Two poems
Katherine Peddie
Some sonnets for Rilke
Review
Reviews of Gareth Twose and Kenny Knight
James McLaughlin
Four sonnets
Stéphane Mallarmé
Three sonnets, translated by Ian Brinton and Michael Grant
Peter Hughes takes Martin Stannard's "Test for Poets"
Questions and Answers
Peter Hughes
Four Poems after Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
Joseph Shmoe
Review - a collage / text collaboration by John Bloomberg-Rissman and Anne Behrendt'
John Mingay
from 'A Bozian Journel'
Rupert Loydell
Poem to Martin Stannard
Sandra Tappenden
Three prose poems
Steven Waling
Review - Martin Stannard's new book
Kenny Knight
Poem - A Long Weekend On The Sofa
Ian Britton
Two Poems
John Bloomberg-Rissman
from "In The House of The Hangman"
John Mingay
Tribute to Ed Baker (1941-2016)
Peter Dent
Poem
Review
Review - Oystercatchers from Robert Sheppard and Kat Peddie
John Mingay
Review - Thorn Corners by Stephen Nelson
Joanne Ashcroft
From: "10 Charms for Deafness (with Spectacles)"
Glenda George
Three Poems
Mark Goodwin
A Poem for Peter Dent
Robert Hamberger
Three Poems
Gareth Twose
30 MINUTES WITH... Dierdre Barlow
Steven Waling
Four Poems
Martin Stannard
Review - new books by Rupert Loydell and Paul Sutton
Tom Jenks
Review - "Top Ten Tyres" by Gareth Twose
Pam Thompson
Three poems from "The Japan Quiz"
Alasdair Paterson
Five villanelles from "My Life as a Mad King"
Peter Gizzi
Poem - from "A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me"
Steven Waling
Review - Selected Poems of Peter Gizzi
Alasdair Paterson
Review - "Maelstrom Origami" by Steve Spence
Martin Stannard
Review - Selected Poems of Paul Violi
Alan Baker
Introduction to "Little Things" by Abdellatif Laâbi
Abellatif Laâbi
Poems from "Little Things"
Ali Znaidi
Four Poems
Andrew Taylor
Three Poems
Andrew Duncan
Review - "Ephemeris" by Dorothy Lehane
Dorothy Lehane
Two poems from 'Ephemeris'
Paul A. Green
Five poems from 'Shadow Times', a work in progress
Aaron Tieger
Two Poems from "Purple Notebook of Raquette Lake"
Kathleen Bell
Two Poems from "The Little book of Illusions"
Graham Caveney
Poem
John Mingay
Poem
Rodney Pybus
Review - "Uncertain Measures" by Aidan Semmens
Peter Hughes
Versions of Cavalcanti
Catherine Hales
Essay - The Poetry of Peter Dent
Alan Halsey
Poem - Nocturne in Greenwich Meantime
Paul Sutton
Poem - Nocturnes 1 to 5
Linda Black
Four Poems
Janet Sutherland
Four Poems
John Mingay
Poem Extract - from 'A Lizard in the Shadows'
Litterbug
Review - "The Book of Isaac" by Aidan Semmens
Simon Howard (1960-2013) - A Tribute:
Editors: Sarah Crewe, Richard Barrett
Prose
Reviews of Howard's work by Peter Hughes and David Grundy
Tributes by Susan St John, Richard Barrett
Tributes John Fallas and Pavlos Antoniadis
Poetry
David Berridge, Sarah Crewe, Wayne Clements,
John Bloomberg-Rissman, Carol Watts, Mark Cobley
Mendoza, Nat Raha, Harry Godwin, David Grundy
Music
Music for harpsichord by Richard Barrett
Litterbug
Review - "Claremont Road" by Paul Hawkins
Gregory Woods
Essay: The Making of a Gay Reader
John Mingay
Review: 'Archilochus on the Moon' by Simon Perril
from the Anglo Saxon
The Nine Herbs Charm: translated by Gavin Chapell
from the Old Norse
from The Saga of Hervor and Heidrek: translated by Gavin Chapell
Andrea Inglese
Two poems: translated from the Italian by Roy Marshall
Paul Sutton
Two Dave Turnip poems
Martin Stannard
Poems
Sue Dymoke
Poems
Osip Mandelstam
Poem - translated by Alistair Noon
Peter Dent
Six new poems
John Martone
Review of Ed Baker's "Stone Girl e-pic"
Ed Baker
Paintings
Peter Maguire
Two paintings
Abdellatif Laâbi
Poems
Alan Baker
Review - 'Lever Arch' by Mark Burnhope
Gareth Twose
Review - ‘An Anatomy of Melancholy' by Tom Jenks
Daniel O'Donnell-smith
Poem read by Alan Baker - audio
Phil Simmons
Review - Petrarch tr. Hughes
Petrarch
Petrach's sonnets tr. Peter Hughes
The Poetry of Theodore Enslin - special feature
Theodore Enslin in conversation
Review of Enslin's 'Nine', 'In Tandem', and "I, Benjamin"
Theodore Enslin reading his poetry - audio
Poems from Enslin's last book
Bibliography
John Welch
The Poetry of Abdulkareem Kasid
Abulkareem Kasid
Poem
Martin Stannard
Poems
David Giannini
Poems
Chinese Poets of the Tang Dynasty
Translations by Martin Stannard
Mark Goodwin
Poem in audio
John Bloomberg-Rissman and Anne Gorrick
Extract from a sonnet sequence
Daniel O'Donnell-Smith
Poems
Nicholas T. Spatofora
Review of "Silences: The Autobiography of Loss" by Eileen R. Tabios
Litterbug
Review of "Dante's Inferno" tr. Philip Terry
Daniel O'Donnell-Smith
Review of "Wildlife" by Rupert Loydell
Rupert Loydell
Four Poems
Robert Sheppard feature
Scott Thurston reviews "The Lores"
Alan Baker reviews "The Given"
New poems by Robert Sheppard
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