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The Last of the Lights#Hugh MacDiarmid

The Last of the Lights

I belonged to a little town
And liked to walk at nights
Out into the dark country roads
Beyond the last of the lights
And what I liked as a boy
Tho' I grow old is still my joy.

And now as over the years I look back
It seems each of my companions then
- A girl, the moon, a few stars or the lack
Of any of these were one and the same. - Now again
Content beyond the last light I go, and have
No companion - even myself - in the grave.

PNR 154 November - Decenber 2003

Poems by Sheenagh Pugh, Elaine Feinstein, Patrick McGuinness, Peter McDonald, Roger Garfitt, Patrick Mackie, Sebastian Barker, Stanley Moss, Michael Hamburger, Tom Payne and Marilyn Hacker.

Features include
Hugh MacDiarmid after twenty-five years
Giles Goodland and James Keery on the Apocalyptic Manifesto
Charles Mundye rediscovers Ezra Pound's operas
Judy Kendall on the jamming of Edward Thomas
David Gervais on why Edward Thomas isn't Thomas Hardy
Esther Quin on why Bob Dylan isn't Bertolt Brecht

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Table of Contents

1 Editorial

2 News & Notes

3 Letters from Mark Beech

Reports

3 C.H. Sisson (1914-2003) - Michael Schmidt

5 A Foggy Day - Neil Powell

7 Carmen Bugan in Conversation - Rebecca Loncraine

8 Auckland Letter - Peter Bland

9 Letter from Wales - Sam Adams

11 Diary from Poland - David Kennedy

12 From a Journal - R.F. Langley

12 Synchronicity and Tobacco Smoke - Marius

      Kociejowski

Poems

15 Four Poems - Sheenagh Pugh

32 Three Poems - Elaine Feinstein

33 Five Poems - Patrick McGuinness

37 Four Poems - Peter McDonald

41 Daffodils - Roger Garfitt

41 Two Poems - Tom Crowther

45 Five Poems - Patrick Mackie

46 Two Poems - Sebastian Barker

50 An American Hero - Stanley Moss

51 Two Poems - Michael Hamburger

52 Tom Payne's Propertius - Tom Payne

57 Poems and Translations - Marilyn Hacker

Articles

17 Hugh MacDiarmid after 25 Years - John Manson,

      Dorian Grieve and Alan Riach

22 John Goodland and the Apocalyptic Manifesto: notes

      from the son of a literary footnote

23 The Apocalyptic Manifesto: Apocalypse or The Whole Man

   Giles Goodman

26 `The Burning Baby and the Bathwater' IV - James

       Keery

35 Ezra Pound's Operas - Charles Mundye

38 'Cock Crow':Why Edward Thomas isn't Thomas Hardy

       - David Gervais

42 Jammed - Judy Kendall

47 Stumbling on Lost Cigars of Bertolt Brecht: Bob

      Dylan's Rebellion - Esther Quin

54 Meditations on the Exote: Victor Segalen

      John Pilling

60 Form and Function IV: Form and Audience

      N.S. Thompson

Reviews

65 on books about Ford Madox Ford - Nicolas Tredell

66 on U.A. Fanthorpe - James McGrath

67 on Martha Kapos, Judy Gahagan, Gregory Warren Wilson

      and Rhian Gallagher - Rachel Elliot

68 on Barry MacSweeney - Roger Caldwell

69 on The New Media Reader - Edward Picot

Cover image: Stephen Cohn, 'Still Life with Fruit Bowl',

   undated.

Cartoons: Martina Jirankova-Limbrick and Michael

   Augustin

Michael Schmidt FRSL, poet, scholar, critic and translator, was born in Mexico in 1947; he studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford, before settling in England. Among his many publications are several collections of poems and a novel, The Colonist (1981), about a boy’s childhood in Mexico. He is general ... read more

Awards won by Michael Schmidt Winner, 2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem - Sasha Dugdale's 'Joy', published in PN Review 227 (PN Review 227 )

Praise for Michael Schmidt 'Its pleasures are longer term ones: as you return to it and re-read its substantial selections, you come to appreciate how and what each contributor is working on.'

Jane Routh, The North 66

'...this is the joy of New Poetries VIII: time and again you discover refreshing and compelling new styles and subjects'

Jake Morris-Campbell, The Poetry School

'...probably the most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world.'
John Ashbery 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines.'
Simon Armitage 'It has attempted to take poetry out of the backwaters of intellectual life and to find in it again the crucial index of cultural health.'
Cairns Craig, Times Literary Supplement

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PN Review 154 Edited by Michael Schmidt Series: PN Review Imprint: PN Review Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Description Excerpt Editor Contents Awards Reviews The Last of the Lights#Hugh MacDiarmid The Last of the Lights I belonged to a little town And liked to walk at nights Out into the dark country roads Beyond the last of the lights And what I liked as a boy Tho' I grow old is still my joy. And now as over the years I look back It seems each of my companions then - A girl, the moon, a few stars or the lack Of any of these were one and the same. - Now again Content beyond the last light I go, and have No companion - even myself - in the grave. PNR 154 November - Decenber 2003 Poems by Sheenagh Pugh, Elaine Feinstein, Patrick McGuinness, Peter McDonald, Roger Garfitt, Patrick Mackie, Sebastian Barker, Stanley Moss, Michael Hamburger, Tom Payne and Marilyn Hacker. Features include Hugh MacDiarmid after twenty-five years Giles Goodland and James Keery on the Apocalyptic Manifesto Charles Mundye rediscovers Ezra Pound's operas Judy Kendall on the jamming of Edward Thomas David Gervais on why Edward Thomas isn't Thomas Hardy Esther Quin on why Bob Dylan isn't Bertolt Brecht PN Review is published six times a year and is available via subscription �29.50 for one year - 6 issues (�35.00 for Institutions) �56.50 for Two years - 12 issues (�68 for Institutions) All individual subscribers have access to PN Review Online. For further information please contact us on 0161 834 8730 or email: pnr@carcanet.u-net.com Table of Contents 1 Editorial 2 News & Notes 3 Letters from Mark Beech Reports 3 C.H. Sisson (1914-2003) - Michael Schmidt 5 A Foggy Day - Neil Powell 7 Carmen Bugan in Conversation - Rebecca Loncraine 8 Auckland Letter - Peter Bland 9 Letter from Wales - Sam Adams 11 Diary from Poland - David Kennedy 12 From a Journal - R.F. Langley 12 Synchronicity and Tobacco Smoke - Marius Kociejowski Poems 15 Four Poems - Sheenagh Pugh 32 Three Poems - Elaine Feinstein 33 Five Poems - Patrick McGuinness 37 Four Poems - Peter McDonald 41 Daffodils - Roger Garfitt 41 Two Poems - Tom Crowther 45 Five Poems - Patrick Mackie 46 Two Poems - Sebastian Barker 50 An American Hero - Stanley Moss 51 Two Poems - Michael Hamburger 52 Tom Payne's Propertius - Tom Payne 57 Poems and Translations - Marilyn Hacker Articles 17 Hugh MacDiarmid after 25 Years - John Manson, Dorian Grieve and Alan Riach 22 John Goodland and the Apocalyptic Manifesto: notes from the son of a literary footnote 23 The Apocalyptic Manifesto: Apocalypse or The Whole Man Giles Goodman 26 `The Burning Baby and the Bathwater' IV - James Keery 35 Ezra Pound's Operas - Charles Mundye 38 'Cock Crow':Why Edward Thomas isn't Thomas Hardy - David Gervais 42 Jammed - Judy Kendall 47 Stumbling on Lost Cigars of Bertolt Brecht: Bob Dylan's Rebellion - Esther Quin 54 Meditations on the Exote: Victor Segalen John Pilling 60 Form and Function IV: Form and Audience N.S. Thompson Reviews 65 on books about Ford Madox Ford - Nicolas Tredell 66 on U.A. Fanthorpe - James McGrath 67 on Martha Kapos, Judy Gahagan, Gregory Warren Wilson and Rhian Gallagher - Rachel Elliot 68 on Barry MacSweeney - Roger Caldwell 69 on The New Media Reader - Edward Picot Cover image: Stephen Cohn, 'Still Life with Fruit Bowl', undated. Cartoons: Martina Jirankova-Limbrick and Michael Augustin Michael Schmidt FRSL, poet, scholar, critic and translator, was born in Mexico in 1947; he studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford, before settling in England. Among his many publications are several collections of poems and a novel, The Colonist (1981), about a boy’s childhood in Mexico. He is general ... read more Awards won by Michael Schmidt Winner, 2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem - Sasha Dugdale's 'Joy', published in PN Review 227 (PN Review 227 ) Praise for Michael Schmidt 'Its pleasures are longer term ones: as you return to it and re-read its substantial selections, you come to appreciate how and what each contributor is working on.' *Jane Routh, The North* 66** '...this is the joy of New Poetries VIII: time and again you discover refreshing and compelling new styles and subjects' Jake Morris-Campbell, The Poetry School '...probably the most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world.' John Ashbery 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines.' Simon Armitage 'It has attempted to take poetry out of the backwaters of intellectual life and to find in it again the crucial index of cultural health.' Cairns Craig, Times Literary Supplement	Share this... 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PN Review 154

Edited by Michael Schmidt