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Congratulations to Carcanet for paying equal attention to new poets and to modern classics. The Collected H.D., Mina Loy, William Carlos Williams, and Yvor Winters are all essential books, and Carcanet is doing a public service keeping them in print.
Thom Gunn
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PN Review 151
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The Fairground Scholar#Robert Minhinnick
your name upon my belly
your e-mail on my breast
when you carve your X upon my tongue
I'll know that I can rest
Now
can't feel your
pulse
can't taste your
dialect
can't follow your
gospel
can't read your
palm
can't remember
what I
can't remember
what it was I
wanted to say
but surely
it's what the
god of yellow
said to the
god of blue
there must be
green gods
too my sister
there must be
green gods too
Okay
we are doing it
your way: watching
the storm destroy its text,
the tattooist become his own prosody,
ants conspire on the forest floor
in syllables of carbon and hydrogen,
the child emerge from the surf
with all the tide's codes broken in her head;
Orion haul the empty cars around the SkyMaster;
the indicative being taken into custody,
Class A words bought and sold in The Buccaneer,
a baby born at the side of the road
and anointed with the black language; v
ideo games reciting the Iliad,
the Dalai Lama gathering up the jackpot in the Hi-Tide arcade,
Rimbaud's black and green vowels marching out of Somalia to meet him,
the drowning man arguing semantics with the sea.
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Title Information:
Series: PN Review
Imprint: PN Review
ISBN-10: 1 857546 73 3
ISBN-13: 978 1 857546 73 6
Edition: 1st
Format: Journal
Published: May 2003
Dimensions: 297x210mm
Pages: 80pp
Publisher: Carcanet Press
RRP: GBP£ 4.99
Discount: 10%
You Save: GBP£ 0.50
Price: GBP£ 4.49
Status: Available
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Table of Contents
1 Editorial
2 News & Notes
3 Letters from Marilyn Nelson, Marilyn Hacker,
Graham Roe
Reports
4 War Music - Neil Powell
5 Letter from Wales - Sam Adams
7 A Copper Gazelle - Marius Kociejowski
8 From a Journal - R.F. Langley
9 Letter from East Anglia - Alice Wooledge Salmon
10 Thoughts After Margate: alternative readings of
The Waste Land lines 300-302 - Raymond Tallis
Poems
14 The Fairground Scholar - Robert Minhinnick
23 A Sunday after Easter - Marilyn Hacker
30 The Art of Love (II)(translated by Len
Krisak) - Ovid
39 Two Poems - John Redmond
41 Three Poems - P.K. Page
47 Six Poems - Sheenagh Pugh
55 Ghost Seed - David Kinloch
58 Four Poems - Carmen Bugan
59 Ink Pellet: The Competition Results
Articles
17 Beyond La Grille - Richard Price
24 William Carlos Williams and Women (II):
an embattled courtship - Herbert Leibowitz
36 Shelf Lives 17: William Plomer - Peter Scupham
40 Stephen Raw: Lettering Artist - Edwin Morgan
Stephen Raw Memory Language
42 Form and Function - N.S. Thompson
49 'The Burning Baby' and the Bathwater II
- James Keery
55 The Muse and the Mouse - Alison Brackenbury
Reviews
61 onMisreading England - David Kennedy
61 on Anne Carson - Valerie Duff
62 on Anthony Burgess's Poetry - Olivier Burckhardt
64 on Three Welsh Poets - Patrick McGuinness
68 on R.S. Thomas - James McGrath
69 on Roland Mathias and Jeremy Hooker
- Robert P. Jones
71 on Daniel Weissbort - James McGrath
72 on Emma-Jane Arkady, Arjen Duinker and Kevin
Hart - Ian Pople
74 on Jack Mapanje's Gathering Seaweed
- David Kennedy
75 on Gabriel Josipovici - Stephen Mitchelmore
77 onTo Relish the Sublime - Tim Rawson
78 onA Conversation Piece - David C. Ward
78 onInstant Shakespeare - T.J.G. Harris
Cover image: Detail of 'Requiem Aeternam' by Stephen Raw © 2003. 11 x 4.5 ft. Acrylic and ink on watercolour paper.
Cartoons: Martina Jirankova-Limbrick
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