CONTENTS

REPORTS

POEMS

ARTICLES

inside cover: Stella Halkyard Pictures from a Library 3: Blake

2 Editorial 3 News & Notes 5 Letter from John Lucas

Neil Powell 6 Serious Pleasures Michael Glover 7 Random Musings from the Bow-Wow Shop

John Lucas 8 The World of Poetry Competitions

Lucy Tunstall and Anthony Rudolf 10 celebrate Charles Tomlinson

Danilo Kiš 12 A Piano and a Dead Horse (translated by Mark Thompson) Sam Adams 13 Letter from Wales Frank Kuppner 15 Which Great Scottish Writers

Robert Gray 17 Sanssouci Sheenagh Pugh 22 Two Poems Andrew Motion 23 Gospel Stories

John Peck 27 from Cantilena Roger Garfitt 30 The Calm Andrew McNeillie 35 Machars: War & Peace ko ko thett and James Byrne 36 Three Burmese Poets

Érico Nogueira 44 On the Tip of My Tongue (translated by Chris Miller) Sophie Hannah 49 Four Poems Jennie Feldman 51 Three Birds

David Herd 54 Four Poems Patrick McGuinness 56 Two Poems

James Womack 60 Three Poems Rory Waterman 62 Two Poems

David Herman 18 Zweig’s Café Goes Online Andrew Hadfield 24 Ample Flesh Michael Alexander 31 A Son of Ezra: Peter Whigham

Nick Liptrot 37 What About the Whats? Jason Guriel 46 Two Minds Iain Bamforth 52 Catchwords 16 Peter Carpenter 57 In Conversation with Clive Wilmer Kevin Gardner 63 Peter Scupham and the Muse of History

REVIEWS

W.S. Milne 66 on Beckett’s Letters Volume II Daniel Kane 67 on Joe Brainard Cameron Hawke Smith 69 on Sorley MacLean

Joey Connolly 70 on John Peck

Peter Riley 71 on Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Scott Thurston 72 on Jerome Rothenberg

Ian Brinton 73 on Tony Lopez Alexander Hutchison 74 on David Kinloch Alison Brackenbury 75 on Tiffany Atkinson and Allison McVety

Okechukwu Nzelu 76 on Andrew Greig

Alfred Corn 76 on Sandeep Parmar Hilary Menos 77 on Michael Murphy

78 Some Contributors

Cover image: Joe Brainard and Frank O’Hara, I Grew This Mustache… (1964), reproduced by permission of Bill Berkson, Ron Padgett and Maureen O’Hara

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