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LAYING SOMETHING DOWN
Matt Simpson on Jim Burns

OUTSIDE IN
an interview with author Greg Bottoms

UTTER LUMINOSITY

Sarah Law on Lisa Lubasch

NIGHTMARE SCENARIOS
A.C. Evans on horror cinema

ATMOSPHERE & EFFECT
Recent Pfmentum CDs

SWALLOWING THE VAST ALPHABET
New poems by Mark Goodwin

WILCO'S SKY BLUE SKY
Matt Bryden believes

THE LADY MISSIONARY
Good news for Gail Dendy

THE GREENER MEADOW
Luciano Erba's new collection reviewed

BACK, HAMBURGER, ALLEN, DISCH
Matt Simpson says it like it is

PARALLEL TEXTS
Mike Barlow on recent translations

NO ONE BUT ONE IS LEAVING, NOT JUST YET

New poems by David Sergeant

FROM WALES TO MACAO
Two new Cinnamon Press titles


DUB IN LONDON

& other poems by Gregory Betts

THREE DARK AGE SAINTS
by James Harpur

THE AUTHENTIC TOUCH
& THE CONCEPT OF ZERO
Paul Sutton compares and contrasts

IN THE HEART OF MODERNITY
new Smith/Doorstop titles

A VERY LONG TITLE
& A TRAGIC INCIDENT
Farley and Haddon reviewed

THE OXYGEN OF POETRY
Tess Gallagher's Dear Ghosts

IN THE ABSENCE OF BLANCHOT
Alan Halsey's unlikely read

OFFCUTS
Neil Bartlett's Skin Lane

A REASSURING VOICE
Ian Seed on Generation Txt

NOTHING LINGO-ARCH OR CAMPY
three new books from Shearsman

RHYME & PUN-ISHMENT
Belinda Cooke on two from Cinnamon Press


FINDING FRESH WORDS
Jan Fortune-Wood goes searching

THE INFLUENCE OF OTHERS
three new Carcanet titles

UNITS OF RECOGNITION

Nathan Thompson is afraid of the echoes

DAFFODILS, SPICES & FUGUES
Matt Simpson sniffs and listens

ASH GREEN
Geoffrey Godbert is wishing for more

LIGHT LINES WE WALK TO
Mark Dickinson's head is in the clouds

CONTEMPORARY ART IN FRANCE
Rupert White on Catherine Millet

GLEAMS OF HIDING
Mark Goodwin shines a light

PRACTICE THIS TECHNIQUE AT HOME
Angela Topping's half-forgotten songs

AUDIBLE, ATONAL, BEAUTIFUL
new poems by Jennifer Olds

CURIOUSLY DULL
David Hart gets News of the swimmers...

THE RADIANT LYRE
essays on lyric poetry reviewed

DOCUMENT AND DISCUSS
interviews, poetry wars,
and innovative women poets


MOMENTS NOT RESOLVED
prose by Tammy Ho Lai-ming

CHASING THE 'PHEW' FACTOR
Geoffrey Godbert is disappointed

HEARTS OF OAK
new titles by Jane Holland,
Guinevere Clark and Gill McEvoy


BUTTERFLIES & HURRICANES
Charlemagne Palestine & Richard Pinhas

A REGISTER OF JUXTAPOSITION
haunted by Le Fanu's Ghost

REVOLUTIONARY SLOGANS
AND POLEMICAL MANIFESTOS
A.C. Evans ventures into the heart of Dada

FAITH RESTORED
John Mingay reviews
new Cinnamon and Arc titles


ALL THE GROWING TIME OF INVOCATION
Peter Larkin's pause in approach

DEFINING THE LYRICAL
William Oxley on David Baker

ASCENDING
Keith Jafrate's 'effigies of belonging'

A PROFOUND ARBITRARINESS
Hart to Hart with Ashbery, Morgan & Mayroker

A HUMMINGBIRD HUMMING
I must go now because it is time to go
THE INVENTIONS OF ICE
The captain may be some time

from THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE
absolute isolation days empty by design

OF FISH, OF HANDS AND ANNUNCIATION
new poems by T. Crunk

ODE TO WARM BLOOD
Mary Maher is on the merry-go-round

VARIATIONS ON MY LIFE
new poems by Lance Newman

AFTER A FEW HE BREAKS INTO SONG
Maurice Riordan & Idris Caffrey

PIGEONS IN A TIME OF FAMINE
new prose by Padrika Tarrant

REQUIEM FOR MYSELF
Norman Jope is in mourning

THE PROOF
new books by Liz Cashdan & Cathy Grindrod

SCRAMBLED, POACHED, BOILED
Helen Ivory's Breakfast Machine

FEELING ITS WAY INTO THE DISTANCE
new poems by Simon Perchik

THE WHOLE ACT OF WRITING
Gilbert Sorrentino's Lunar Follies

PIGMENT, LIGHT & FILM
Garry Fabian Miller's Illumine

BOSH & FLAPDOODLE

A breath of fresh air

TWO FROM ANVIL
reviewed by Belinda Cooke

A IS FOR APPLE FOR TEACHER

Risk Assessment assessed

ENTHRONING DULLNESS
William Oxley is not impressed

THE ONES THAT DIDN'T GET AWAY
a poetry review round-up

MULTIDIRECTIONAL
The Case Against Happiness

THE HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM
New poems by Sophie Mayer

FOUND AND LOST
Robert Latona on 'neglected' books

from
THE FAMILIAR DEAD
Ian Seed stays afloat without noticing

SHARP ENOUGH?
Abi Curtis on Ellendore Watson

NOT HOLIDAY READING?
Peter Riley & Ian Davidson

OPEN TO THE UNEXPECTED
David Hart on Interland

DIRTY DANCING AGAIN
WITH BROKEN LEGS
David Grubb has lost the lists

MOVING PICTURES?
Colin Bradbury and Video Art

EDGES / RIDDLES
new poems by Andy Brown

A TITLE TOO FAR
Michael Foley is beguiling

ANGELS & OTHER DISTURBANCES
David Hart's Running Out

THERE'S JUST ONE HITCH
New books by Jon Woodward,
Peter Sansom & Matthew Holmes


WHEN THE BOURBON KICKS IN
Mike Ferguson does his best

COME TO THE ZOO WITH ME
demands Nathan Thompson

ENERGETIC ARTICULATION
Matt Simpson on Donald Davie

STATE OF THE NATION
Colin Bradbury on new American photography

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Jane Routh on Louise Gluck

THE UNEXAMINED LIFE
is not worth living

HOPING METAPHOR WILL CATCH THE LIGHT
poetry by Thomas White

SHARKS & HOPES & DREAMS
Genista Lews reviews two new anthologies

A FAREWELL TO POETRY
Philip Rush says farewell

REACHING THAT HIGHER STAGE
CK Williams' Collected Poems

OFF THE RADAR
Jonas Bendiksen's Satellites

SOMETHING PERSONAL

Matt Simpson defies the odds

ANOTHER SAME WORLD LEFT
Mark Goodwin's flung to the air

SLEEPING PILLS & SILENCES
Sam Rennes and Wild Women

FLICKERING PERSPECTIVES
Nicholas Hunt tackles fire & ice

A RIVER OF PERCEPTIONS
Steven Waling on Alice Notley

SONGS OF WHAT HAPPENS

Chris Emery's Radio Nostalgia

THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THIS POEM
ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF
EITHER THE WRITER OR READER


AROUND THE BACK
Alan Halsey's Not Everything Remotely

NO PUBLIC LANGUAGE

an interview w ith Ken Edwards

POETIC REVOLUTION
Robert Sheppard's The Education of Desire
and Ken Edwards' Good Science


CAREFULLY STUDIED ACCESS
The Uncollected Elizabeth Bishop

EDGE OF DARKNESS
Colin Bradbury & Twilight

ONE HAND CLAPPING
Daithidh MacEochaidh gets the chrome blues

POSITIVES
a sequence by Philip Terry

GROANS OF SLOW TRAFFIC
Steve Waling trips over the cat

THINGS AND COURTYARDS
Robert Gray and Marilyn Hacker

A PLACE BEYOND POLITICS
Brian Turner's Here, Bullet

WAKE UP LITTLE SUZI
sonnets by the Dark laddy reviewed

WHAT DO I DO WITH DAYS?
new poems by Matt Simpson

JOY AND THE COSMOS
Lorna Goodisan and Maxine Kumin

TO HELL AND BACK
Sean O'Brien's Inferno

USEFUL INSIGHTS
Poetry and Science

OUT OF CHAOS
Genista Lewes makes sense of it

CAPITAL: THE OFFICIAL VERSION
Paul Sutton wallows in it

A TENDER AND LONELY CONSOLING
Bengal the Beautiful

DRESSING SOLIDLY
Margie Cronin puts on her gravel pants

TO ALL THE USELESS IDIOTS
IN THE FUTURE

Paul Sutton is too old for this

EIGHT DIFFERENT VOICES
Matt Simpson on new poetry titles

THE QUESTION THAT HAS TO BE ASKED
Donna Masini &Deborah Bernhardt reviewed

TOM, DICK & MITROFAN
Nicholas Hunt on Amanda Nadelberg

FINE TUNING
Peter Redgrove's The Colour of Radi

SILENCE, NOTHING AT ALL, ANXIETY
new poems by Livia Viitol

IT'S VERY SEVERE TO SUFFER
Cesar Vallejo's Selected Poems

SOMETHING IN THE WATER
says Sandra Tappenden

GATHERING SENTENCES
new poems by Janet Sutherland

IFS AND BUTS AND VIOLENCE
from Risk Assessment

THE NEVER ENDING JOURNEY
New translations of Chinese Poetry

FRAGMENTARY WRITING
David Miller picks up the pieces

SWIMMING WITH WORDS
Matt Simpson's In Deep

EVERY GOODBYE AIN'T GONE
Giles Goodland reviews 'An Anthology
of Innovative Poetry by African Americans'

FIVE UNTITLED POEMS
by Catherine Taylor

THE EXPERIENCE ITSELF
Martin Caseley digs beneath
the surface of The Allotment

MULBERRIES, NAMES
AND COMMON WORDS
Reviews by Andy Brown

FORTY YEARS IN PLACE
Jeremy Hooker's The Cut of Light

SUGAR & SPICE...

Roger Hilton's Sugar

FROM THE BOOK OF DEFINITIONS
Josef Lesser works round the clock

PROMISES, PROMISES
four new books of prose poems

RARELY SEEN VISITORS
new poems by Stephen Oliver

MORE THAN PERFECT LYRIC
Stephen Oliver's Either Side the Horizon

AS GOOD A PLACE AS ANY
Catherine Hales finds temporary lodging

IN ALL WEATHERS
Jane Routh's Teach Yourself Mapmaking

THE LEGENDARY JOURNAL
OF DISAPPOINTMENT
and other works by Paul Sutton

IN DIALOGUE WITH
MATERIALS THAT BLEED
Robert Sheppard's ghostly narratives

THE PHILOSOPHICAL
& THE PERSONAL
Paul Hoover & Joshua Beckman

IRISH-AMERICAN NOSTALGIA
Daniel Tobin's The Narrows

FOUR NEW POETRY COLLECTIONS
Michael Peverett moves fast

POETRY FOR YOB CULTURE
William Oxley gets the donut

A FLASH IN THE PAN?
Flash fiction and prose poetry

THINGS SAID, UNSAID
AND HALF WORTH SAYING

the two Tonys reviewed

SLIDESHOW
prose poems by Annie Clarkson

A MANY-JEWELLED CROWN
Elizabeth Bewick gets the royal treatment

WOOF WOOF WOOF
Andy Brown goes to the dogs

FOREIGN TERRITORIES
three new Carcanet titles

ROOTED IN PRACTICE
Tony Lopez's essays

CRACKS IN THE UNIVERSE
Charles Tomlinson is palpably here

THE MEDITATIVE CAPPUCCINO
Tony Lucas after the exhibition

INDEPENDENT AND ORIGINAL
Matt Simpson assesses Gael Turnbull

THREE FROM SHEARSMAN
reviewed by Jane Routh

THE MONSTERS THAT COME FROM WITHIN
Sarah Law and Scott Thurston reviewed

POINTS FOR DISCUSSION
Martin Stannard on Harvey Shapiro

WITH A SOUND LIKE KERFUDDLE
Nathan Thompson's red spider

ANONYMOUS INTRUDER
no one for miles around

RADIATE ERROR RADIATE ERROR
Mark Goodwin is moving still

PARISIAN SUITE
a sequence by Mark Terrill

THE ECOLOGY OF HERE & NOW
Andy Brown reviews Simon Armitage

EPHEMERA, GOSSIP
Nick Spicer's poems

DEATH IS A WOMAN DANCING
& other poems by Mariel Boyarsky

FRACTAL ECONOMIES

Some recent poetry books

THE POSTMODERN TWILIGHT
Recent books of essays

GLUEPOTS AND BROKEN TOYS
Rebecca Wolff and Alice Fulton

GOING UNDERGROUND
Martin Caseley reviews Seamus Heaney

BYWAYS
James Laughlin disappoints Richard Kostelanetz

EXCERPTS, EXCELLENCE & EXCREMENT
Some recent poetry books

PARTICLES OF LIFE

Jan Fortune-Wood's new book

FRIDAY
by Keith Jafrate

LOOKING FOR ICARUS
Belinda Cooke considers Roselle Angwin's book

END GAME
i.m. Brian Louis Pearce

DISTINCTIVE VOICES
new books by Jesse Glass and Aaron Shurin

A HEART MADE OF STRING
new poems by Christine Brandel

A SHORT FIREWORK DISPLAY
Andy Brown reviews Elizabeth Willis

THE BIG TREES
Elaine Randell's Selected Poems

THREE FROM CARCANET
reviewed by Matt Simpson

LET THE REVELLS BEGIN
Jane Routh reviews Donald Revell

NOT THAT EITHER
Martin Corless-Smith's Swallows

UNCONCERNED – BUT NOT INDIFFERENT
Derek Adams' life of Man Ray

THE BACK OF BEYOND
The return of Geoff Hattersley

GHOST CHARACTERS
Peter Robinson sniffs the air

MY KIND OF PARTY
Luke Kennard on
Cecil Helman's prose poems


PREMIER LEAGUE
Jennie Feldman's The Lost Notebook

from MOVING WOODS
Peter Larkin takes root

STILL NO THUNDER TO SPEAK OF
new poems by Amy Stanbrook

ELUSIVE INTELLECTUALISM
Christopher Middleton's The Anti-Basilisk

TREADING LIGHTLY
Jacques Réda's Selected Poems

THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK

Ted Berrigan and New York Poets 2

EASING THE GRAVITY FIELD
Christopher Southgate's Lapse of Science

SOFTWAR OR HARDWAR
Tony Lopez on Alan Halsey's Marginalien

GALAXIES VANISHING BEFORE SEEN
Grahaeme Barrasford Young shifts time

RENOWN
prose poems by Carrie Etter

HOMELAND INSECURITY
Luke Kennard is over Jorie Graham

CHAOS THEORY
Peter Finch's Welsh Poems

FARAWAY SHORES
Michael Mc Carthy puts you in the mood

GONGS GALORE
Three new American collections

YEAR OF THE DOG
Business as usual for Martin Stannard

CONSORTING WITH ANGELS
Deryn Rees-Jones' new anthology and essays

HUNTING SILENCE

new poems by Rose Flint


WHAT IS DOUBLED
Giles Goodland on Peter Coles

ANCESTORS AND SPECIES
Tom Lowenstein's Ethnopoetics

AS CLOSE AS WE CAN GET
Colin Simms' American Poems

ARCHEOLOGICAL EPIPHANIES
Tom Chivers' Moor Voices

PLAYING WITH FIRE
William Oxley on Grevel Lindop

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TREND
new poems by Josef Lesser

from
CRABBED FLIGHT
prose poems by Richard Burns

IN THE VALLEYS
Martin Caseley on Skirrid Hill

from
THE LOPSIDED NOW
new poems by Margie Cronin

SWITHERING
Andy Brown on Robin Robertson

SAWN OFF TALES
by David Gaffney

A NEW STRANGENESS
A.C. Evans reviews
a new book on Symbolism


A BRIGHTNESS BETRAYED
Ian Seed on Brenda Hillman

THE EDITOR'S PICKS OF THE YEAR

THE MIRROR BEFORE IT BROKE
prose poems by Jennifer DiCamillo

DIALOGUES
poetry, nature, art & artists

VITAL PRESENCE
Fiona Owen on Arnolds Wood

PROPER SERIOUSNESS
Christopher Hampton and Peter Hay

HUMAN MATRIX
John Seed's New and Collected Poems

FROGS ON THE MOTORWAY
more from Philip Terry's Aesopocrypha

HOW OUR HOUSE IS TALLER
THAN OUR SKY IT KEEPS
new poems by Mark Goodwin

NOT ON MY XMAS WISH LIST
Nancy Crampton's Writers

HOME-BODIES
new books by Simon Curtis & Glyn Hughes

COFFEE TABLE NAVIGATION

Anvil's new sea anthology

DON'T SHOOT THE PIANIST
A.C. Evans on Lee Harwood's Tristan Tzara

SOMETIMES HAVING TO STAND NAKED
Clare Bateman's Leap by Andy Brown

SWIMMING IN THE SWISH
prose poems by Jennifer DiCamillo

from KOSTIK THE KILLER
new poems by Julia Istomina

OUTSIDER ART
Giles Goodland on Monika's Story

UNEXPECTED STATES OF MIND
Bruce Beasley & Kenneth Fields

LISA SAMUELS & ROSANNA WARREN

Reviewed by Michael Peverett

PADDOCKS & PASTORALS
Matt Simpson on John Kinsella

CARTOON CAPERS
Kevin Coyne's Suburban Angst

BEYOND PIETIES
new books by Robert Lax and David Miller

from
EX-CATALOGUE
prose poems and found prose poems

COMMON DENOMINATORS &
DISTINCT DIFFERENCES
Belinda Cooke on Russian Women Poets

HANGING AND QUARTERTERING
Giles Goodland reviews Geraldine Monk

A CRAGGY, UNFAMILIAR LANDSCAPE
Ted Hughes' Collected Poems

CRESSIDA: AN ISLE QUARTET
Tim Keane explores...

PERSISTENT OTHERWISE

new prose poems by Ian Seed

HOW TO BE A BUTTERFLY
Luke Kennard stings like a bee

DISAPPOINTMENTS & DELIGHTS
Rupert Loydell's recent reading

BARNETT, MUCKLE & SMITH
Christine Kennedy reviews a Shearsman trio

KIND OF INADEQUATE
AND A LITTLE GUILTY
Martin Stannard on JH Prynne

CULTURAL REVOLUTION
where thinking got Mark Robinson

LANDSCAPES WITHOUT MEMORY
Giles Goodland gets software envy

BUSILY WORKSHOPPING AWAY

Earnest bees and buzzing schools

DANGER: HIGH VOLTAGE
new poems by Mark Goodwin

from AESOPOCRYPHA
Fables and fictions by Philip Terry

FAITH IN POETRY

Martin Stannard

DAVID ANTIN & BRUCE SMITH
Ira Lightman reviews their new books

PARK LIFE
Matt Simpson reviews Surfacing

IMPERFECTIONS
and other poems by Jnana Hodson

OTHER VOICES BENEATH THE HAT-STAND
four poems by David Grubb

SPAN

a new poem by John F. Deane

CROSSING BORDERS
rob mclennan on a new Canadian anthology

UNKNOWABLE MEMORIES
two new photographic books

WHAT WE FIND IN OUR POCKETS
Tower and Stroke Association anthologies

ADDRESSING THE ENVELOPE
Juliana Spahr and Sarah Grigley

OVER THE HILL AND INTO THE WOOD

Geoffrey Hill and Hugh Wood

IN THE DARK BEFORE DAWN
Thomas Merton's New Selected Poems

JUNK AND GEMS
Alan Corkish is lost in a thicket

FORM AND SUBSTANCE

David Scott and David Harsent

WITH A HOLISTIC EYE
Sottsass 700 drawings

ANGER IS AN ENERGY
Alistair Fitchett on Jean Michel-Basquiat

THE UNTOLD HISTORY
OF THIS LAWLESS REGION
Paul Sutton is expectant

THE IVORY TOWER-BLOCK

Two Green Rose Books reviewed

A MIND-STRETCHING EXPERIENCE
The intellectual as poet: Michel Deguy's Recumbents

A CONSERVATIVE APPROACH
Alex Latter on David Constantine

HOLIDAY POSTCARDS

John Welch's On Orkney

THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
Martin Caseley reviews Roy Fisher

A RACEHORSE IN THE FACE
Van Der Graaf Generator reassessed

WOMEN IN THE WILDERNESS
Jane Hirshfield, Marilyn Hacker & Maxine Kumin

THE NEW MAPPED ONTO THE OLD

Allen Fisher's Place



from
HONESYUCKLE
a sequence by Sandra Tappeden

OUR LAST STOP BEFORE MODERNISM
poems by William Watkin

A BUSY HOUSE OF VOICES
Brian Ferneyhough's Shadowtime

WOAD, WELD AND MADDER
new poems by Janet Sutherland

JUST HOW MANY POSTMODERN POETS
ARE THERE IN FLANDERS ANYWAY?

Phil Terry reviews three Shearsman titles

OBJECTS MADE TO FIT
Rebecca Horn's films

JEREMY TWILL
in conversation with Phil Borch

from ABANDONED STORIES
new collaborative poems

THE GESTURE OF NARRATIVE
Susan M. Schultz's And Then Something Happened

IN MEMORY OF THE ANTI-POEM
Robert Sheppard

A SUBVERSIVE TRIUMPH
Dean Young's Elegy on Toy Piano

MURMURING LOGIC
Megan Johnson's The Waiting

DAYS OF FIRE AND FLOOD
Chrissy Banks' new collection reviewed

TIME TRAVEL
Andrew Poppy on Zang Tuum Tumb.
An interview.


WALL OF WORDS
new poems by Iain Britton

WATER WALL

The tide crawls toward David Chorlton

A WHOLE NEW WAY
TO A DIFFERENT WORLD

Duggan and Jackson reviewed

FIREWORKS!
Martin Stannard lights the touchpaper

IN THE PSYCHIATRIC MUSEUM
new poems by Tim Houghton

GRRRRR....
Abi Curtis growls at Brian Louis Pearce

THE PETER DENT POETRY TEST
Martin Stannard just about passes

FOUR THEORIES ON WHY GOD
SINKS HIS HEAD IN MY SPAGHETTI

and other poems by Arlene Ang

WHAT GIVES

Sarah Law's Visiting Hours

THE RIVER AND THE CATHEDRAL
New poems by Andy Brown

DIFFERENT STROKES
new books by Tim Kendall,
Paul Stubbs and Mike Barlow


SHADOWS
and other prose poems by Ian Seed

VARYING ATTITUDES
Barbara Guest's The Red Gaze

LIKE THE POWER OF A JET
Who on earth were After the Fire?

THE ROADS BEST TRAVELED
Andy Brown reviews David Kennedy

MY DUMB MOON-FAVOURED MUSE
new poems by Sandra Tappenden

THE GOOD THE BAD & THE UGLY
two more from bluechrome

LOOK OUT INDEED
Gary Snyder by Jane Routh

AN INTERVIEW WITH THE EDITOR
Brian Louis Pearce talks to Rupert Loydell

FISHBONE
and other poems by Gary Langford

WAYWARD THINKING
Christian Hawkey's Book of Funnels

ANOTHER SUBURBAN CUL-DE-SAC
Mike Ferguson's American dream

INSCRIPTIONS IN A BROKEN TIME
excerpts from Jon Thompson's sequence

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ENGLAND
David Thomson is back from Venice

DANISH PASTRY GIRLFRIEND
new poems by Martin Stannard

FIVE NEW ANVIL PRESS TITLES
reviewed by Jeffrey Side

RE: VISIONS OF BEAUTY
A long poem by Dianne Darby

PARALLEL UNIVERSE
Tomaz Salamun reviewed

POEMS MAKING PROSE
by Ira Lightman

NOT DOING IT RIGHT
Tom Paulin's translations

SURPRISE, SURPRISE
Two new anthologies

WORDSWORTH'S SOCKS
'Before there was...'

TROUBLE IN THE LEAN-TO
new books from Joel Lane and Ian Pople

OTHER LANGUAGES,
OTHER WORLDS

Two translation titles

BOSS BOOKS
Dean Young and Campbell McGrath -
Alan Corkish asserts himself


FIRESIDE READING
Six women poets reviewed

LANGUAGE IS LANGUAGE
Andy Brown reviews
Rosmarie Waldrop & Susan Howe


from LE FANU'S GHOST
new poems by Gavin Selerie

NEARING THE FAR EDGE OF NEVER
Ryan Barker approaches

FALLING OUT WITH THE GODS
the ahadada reader

READING PROUST
IN THE LAUNDERETTE

Rob Stanton does the wash

rob mclennan
an in-depth interview

NOCTURNE
and other new poems
by rob mclennan


DREAM IS HEADFILL
poems by Andrew Bailey

FREE RUNNING SENSES
Kelvin Corcoran's Unpainted Hiltons

THAT FEELING YOU HAD
BEFORE THE KETTLE BOILED

Rob Mackenzie may be the chosen one

REALITY TEST
Redell Olsen's Secure Portable Space

THE COMPLETE KENNETH REXROTH
Martin Stannard sings praises

HERE SHE COMES AGAIN
Sylvia Plath is back!

BIRDS INSIDE SILENCES
Elizabeth Burns reviews David Grubb

INTRODUCING THE HOBO POETS
John Mingay does the honours

ROBERT LOWELL FED THROUGH
A WENDY COPING MACHINE

Dorothea Tanning and Fanny Howe reviewed

NEUTRAL-DENSITY LINES

prose by Anthony Kane Evans

IN THE WORLD'S NIGHT
Jay Ramsay's Midnight Sun

HOW NOT TO...
Peter Finch and Mat Coward

ONE ANOTHER
John Mingay reviews Michael Coady

WHAT'S GOING ON OVER THERE THEN?
Another American Round-Up

WHO? WHAT? WHY?
Alan Dent's compressed epic

ANOTHER BOB DYLAN BOOK
considered by Matt Bryden

THE WORD 'ANTHOLOGY'

Martin Stannard has trouble
just Being Alive

NEVER SAY TUNDRA
Paul Batchelor is on the permafrost

THIS KETTLE IS GOOD
FOR ONE MORE CUP OF LIGH
T
says Edward Gates
SHAKE HANDS

with Jesse Ferguson's poems

THE PLOT IS AFOOT
in Ian Seed's prose poems

DIFFERENT MODELS OF OBLIVION
Allen Fisher, Robert Sheppard
& Rachel Blau DuPlessis reviewed


PERCEPTIONS OF LANDSCAPE
Yann Lovelock reviews Geoffrey Squires

USE A WEDGE
Bob Arnold is in a foul mood
thanks to the election results


STAR GAZING
Matt Simpson is in deep

WELL HOUSE LETTERS
Neil Annat's pub poems

PERMISSION TO BE BORED
Martin Stannard
loses the will to live


ENRICHING THE SPIRIT
Paul Dunmall and Full Circle

THEREMIN
new poems by
Malgorzata Kitowski

THAT SHEFFIELD SOUND
Martin Archer's ringtones

INHABITING ALL OF LANGUAGE
Keith Jafrate's Euyrydice

VACUUM-PACKED SANDWICHES
AND SORDID HEADLINES

new poems by Cliff Yates

REALLY
Paul Sutton's poems. Really.

NOT HALF
Sandra Tappenden lets fly


NIGHT SCHOOL
Gill McEvoy attends

SAY THE SAME THINGS
new poems by Janet Fisher

GOING WITH THE FLOW
John Mingay comes unstuck

WELL HOUSE LETTERS
poems from down the pub


KNOWING WHO THEY ARE

Jeffrey Side on two new Stride books

A DELUGE OF DEFINITIONS
Jane Routh on Amy Newman

FEELING GRAVITY'S PULL
Sarah Law on Allen Fisher

DISLOCATIONS
new prose from Yann Lovelock

STILLED INSTANTS & NEW TERRITORIES
i.m. Ian Robinson

THE SOLEX BROTHERS
introduced by Luke Kennard

SHAMANIC WARRIORS & NOW POETS
Paul Rowland takes a trip

'I WAS THERE AND NOT THERE'
Kelvin Corcoran's Selected Poems

PETER RILEY
excavated by Michael Peverett

LEE HARWOOD'S COLLECTED POEMS
Andy Brown offers up praise

THIS IS HOW EVERYTHING BREAKS UP
poems by Rebecca Loudon

THREE WAYS OF LOOKING AT A TRIO
Paul Donnelly on some recent jazz

TIME TO EAT YOUR WORDS
Abi Curtis on Nick Totton

HAMLET IN A MOTEL IN VEGAS

Charles Simic by Martin Caseley


from SHUT DOWN

by Michael Peverett


ADVENTURES WITH WORDS

William Oxley grapples with Peter Philpott


THE FLYING BED

and other poems by Zoe Brigley


NEW GIRLS
Jane Routh on three new Shoestring titles

LIVES IN POETRY
Raymond Humphreys reviews

IN BED AND EATING PAELLA

new poems by Steve Waling

A CONCENTRATED EFFORT
by William Oxley

THE BLUECHROME MIX
Bill Petty investigates

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Martin Stannard on O'Hara,
Schuyler, Ashbery and Koch


WHOSE SIGNATURE
IS HARD TO DECIPHER

Patricia Farrell gets political

HARLOWDHARMA
by Alice Lenkiewicz

from AVAILABLE LIGHT

new pems by Clark Allison

THE READABLE SIDE OF EXPERIMENT
John Welch's new book reviewed

MID-AIR MEDITATION
and other poems by Edmund Hardy

IN THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES

Paul Donnelly gets jazz

DADAIST UPBRINGING
Luke Kennard gets over it
and reviews some new Salt books


A CARD TO MARTIN STANNARD
and other poems by CJ Allen

from FAMILIAR TERRITORY
Rupert Loydell takes no prisoners

MORE OF THE SAME
Alan Corkish and a new batch from bluechrome

SNOWSHOES ACROSS THE CLOUDS
A collaborative review

AMBLING RAPPORT
New poems by Amy Kin
g

A DIFFERENT MATTER
Poems by Avik Chanda

DIFFERING OPINIONS
of The Butcher's Hands

IN TRANSLATION
Andy Brown on recent titles

WHAT A PERFORMANCE
New poems by John Greeves


SENSING THE SPIRIT
Brian Pearce sounds out heaven and earth

TAILS, TRICKS AND HERRINGS
Matt Simpson on the inevitable

BLOSSOM OF PERCEPTIONS
Sarah Law on Denise Levertov

HEAVEN KNOWS I'M MISERABLE NOW
RS Thomas' Later Collected Poems

PROOF OF SILHOUETTES
Paul Rowland examines the evidence

WEST IS THE BEST
Thomas White visits West House

PROBLEMS AND POLEMICS
Alan Corkish reviews Sam Smith

BUDDHIST SHEET MUSIC
Hank Lazer reviewed by Paul Rowland

HUNTING THE KINNAYAS
Carey Moon accompanies Andy Brown

A BOTTOMLESS LAKE
Steve Waling dives into
Peter Didsbury's new book

UNTIL THE CAMERA SEES YOUJ
Jane Routh

DARK AND LIGHT LOCKED
Mark Goodwin

JENNIFER MOXLEY
reviewed by Stephanie Cleveland

BEE ATIFIC
and other bee poems by Richard Mais

A MUSIC OF ISLANDS
Jane Thorpe

A WHEN I"M ASLEEP IN A BEDROOM
THEY WAKE ME UP AND KILL ME
BUT I'M GETTING TOO OLD FOR THAT
Martin Stannard

CHAOS AND BEAUTY

Paul Donnelly on Chris McGregor

THE PORCUPINE'S KISS

Robert Joyce on Stephen Dobyn's latest

WHISPERS STUMBLE AWKWARDL
Y
i n Maurice Oliver's poetry

BLUECHROME
Matt Simpson investigates

PHOENIX NEW WRITING
Luke Kennard gets sent to Coventry

ASLEEP IN THE SEED

and other new poems by Larissa Szporluk

PAINTED LADIES
Gordon Read by Sally Chisholm

RETHINKING AFRICA
Matt Simpson takes a [Andrew] Peek

KNITTING WITH WORDS
Poetry by Malgorzata Kitowski

SEAMANSHIP
William Oxley is at sea with Gavin Bantock

DIRK BOGARDE REVISITES VENICE
and other poems by Louise Cole

CASCADES OF LIGHT
John Deane by David Grubb

PETER READING
reviewed by Paul Rowland

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER
David Chorlton can't focus

FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS
film fun with Malgorzata Kitowski

SAINTS, MYSTICS, DARK LANDSCAPES
Sally Chisholm reviews Sarah Law and Rose Flint

BOOKS I HAVE THROWN AWAY
Robert Joyce's discards

THE YEAR THAT WAS
Stephen Middleton's 2003

THE BEST OF 2003
readers' lists

THE MUSEUM OF LIGHT
reviewed by Matt Bryden

KISSES THREE
Matt Simpson grapples
with the Green Knight


LAST TRICKS

Peter Redgrove
reviewed & remembered

DON'T ASK ME WHAT I MEAN
The Martin Stannard Awards Show

BLUE CITY ANGELS
new poems by Rose Flint

THE LATEST
CK Williams reviewed

HARD WATER
Matt Simpson is longing to connect with Jean Sprackland

A FATAL DULLNESS
James Reiss sends William Oxley to sleep

DIONYSUS IN THE USA

Paula Bardell reviews John Gist

DISCUSSING THE MISSING VOICE
poems by Dianne Darby

FULL OF STAR'S DREAMING
i.m. Peter Redgrove 1932-2003

THE SOUND OF ONE-HAND CLAPPING

a big hand, please, for Sarah Law

A GREAT THING
Tony Lopez on Tom Raworth

ANYBODY'S STORY
Andrew Shields reviews Stephen Dunn

TO TRAVEL OR NOT TO TRAVEL?
Andy Brown takes to the road with Peter Riley

WHO WINGS HIS WHY
ee cummings revisited

AN OPEN LETTER
Stannard on MacSweeney

THE LIGHT OF DAY
Paul Rowland on Devorah Day

A DANGEROUS CHICANE
new poems by Andy Green

GEORGE OPPEN'S NEW COLLECTED POEMS

Clark Allison

TWO NEW ARC BOOKS
reviewed by Thomas White

THE MIND OF A MONKEY
poetry by Christopher Hogg

DISSOLVING BORDERS
Paul Donnelly on some recent jazz

COMPOSE MESSAGE
new poems by Marianne Morris

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST
Paul Rowland reviews Carolyn Forché and W.B. Keckler

CHILDREN OF PARADISE
and other poems by Jesse Lee Kercheval

CATHERINE HALES
is just passing through

DIVERSIONS AND DIVISIONS
William Oxley on Stephen Oliver

NORTHERN LIGHTS
Matt Simpson's book reviews

FREEDOM FRIES & GOOD SOUP
Peter Shippy is on the menu

THE PROSE SPIRIT
Andy Brown on two new books

SYMPHONY NO 1.
Paul Rowland composes

OVERWHELMED
George Oppen's Collected Poems

INSERT THE WORD
Huw Jones does

MISSIVES FROM HOTEL PARTICULIER
Paul Donnelly muses on Frank O'Hara

BETWEEN A AND O
Martin Burke makes the trip

LEAF HUTS AND SNOW-HOUSES
Sam Smith reviews Olav Hauge

SIX PARAGRAPHS 5 & 6
Clark Allison continues

NEW CENTURY NORTH AMERICAN POETS
Angela Topping on a new anthology

NAVIGATORS AND EXPLORERS

New from Shoestring Press

from SUSPENDED GOLD
prose poems by Norman Jope

A BOOK TO INHABIT
Sam Smith on Wayne Lante