Table of Contents

1 Editorial

2 News & Notes

3 Letters from Belle Randall, James Aitchison, John

   Wakeman, Simon Jenner, James Sutherland-Smith,

   Warren Hope.



Reports



5 Reach and Grasp - Lawrence Sail

7 Letter from Bornholm - Anne Born

8 Memories of Sidney Keyes - Milein Cosman

9 in Conversation with Nik Simpson, May 1997 and May

      1998 - Anne Ridler

12 The White Cities - Joseph Roth



Poems



14 Two Poems - Robert Gray

18 Four Poems - Michael Palmer

20 Five Poems - Moniza Alvi

27 Shot from the Fold - John Peck

28 Ten Arrivals - John Gallas

37 Four Poems - Marilyn Hacker

41 Four Poems - Judy Kendall

42 Four Poems - Ben Sonnenberg

46 Six Poems - Sujata Bhatt

52 Five Poems - Valerie Duff

53 Three Poems - Carmen Bugan

57 Four Poems - Peter Bland



Articles



16 On Neither Writing Nor Revising - Chris McCully

21 Paz and Vanguardism (Circulations of the Song

       - Michael Palmer

30 On French and English Poets - David Gervais

38 On Not Running Scared, Shakespeare, Milton and

      Dickens - John Lucas

42 The Trouble with Sean O'Brien - Alan Munton

50 Palpable Fact: James Schuyler and Immediacy

       - Peter Campion

54 Self-publication without Tears?-Writers with their

      own Websites - Edward Picot



Reviews



58 on George Barker - Julia Blackburn

59 on Antony Easthope - Nicolas Tredell

60 on Charles Tomlinson's American Essays - David C.

      Ward

61 on Dennis O'Driscoll's Essays - David C. Ward

62 on Kinsella's Collected Poems - Alex Davis

63 on Tom Paulin - Andrew McNeillie

65 on Geoffrey Hill - Anthony Rice

66 on Charlie Smith, Jeffrey Harrison and Dionisto D.

      Martinez - Patrick Mackie

67 on Wislawa Szymborska - Tess Mann

68 on Marin Sorescu - John Pilling

69 on Rabindranath Tagore - Dom Moraes

70 on Roger McGough - Caroline Bird

70 on Logue and Alexander translations - Matt Byden



Cover illustration: John Peck, 'Composition, First Series, 1981, V'.



Cartoons: Martina Jirankova-Limbrick