Table of Contents

1 Editorial

2 News & Notes

3 Letters from George Steiner, Jackie Litherland,

   Constance Parrish and David Kennedy



Reports



5 A Foggy Day - Neil Powell

6 Letter from Belgrade - James Sutherland-Smith

9 Letter from Wales - Sam Adams

11 Painting, Coins - John Welch

12 i.m. Milton Kessler 1930-2000 - Judith Chernaik

14 From a Journal - R.F. Langley

14 The Poetical Remains of Madge Herron

       - Marius Kociejowski



Poems



15 My Moth: My Song - R.F. Langley

21 Two Poems - Sinead Morrissey

36 The Middleton Poems - Gillian Clarke

41 Two Poems (translated by John Gallas) - Giuseppe

      Giusti

42 Four Poems - Charles Tomlinson

48 Madonna in Porthcawl - Robert Minhinnick

49 The River Drivers - Matthew Hollis

55 Five Poems - Carrie Etter

68 Brunetto Latini - Lorna Goodison

72 Martha and Mary - John Muckle

78 Younger Men Have Birthdays Too - Linda Chase



Articles



18 Singing a New Song - Gabriel Josipovici

23 The Vienna Paradox (extracts) - Marjorie Perloff

38 Augustan Currencies - Peter Campion

43 Self-Made Man: Kafka and America - Iain Bamforth

50 The Furious Return of Robert Burns - Fenella

      Copplestone

56 George Crabbe: A Stranger in the City - Neil Powell

69 Letter for Lorna - Jon Soske

73 Strippers - Grevel Lindop



Reviews



87 on Kenneth White - David Kinloch

88 on Robert Crawford, Angus Calder and Helena

      Nelson - Richard Price

89 on Jibanananda Das - Moniza Alvi

90 on Robert Minhinnick's Six Welsh Poets - Meic

      Stephens

91 on Catherine Brennan - Sheenagh Pugh

91 on Kwane Dawes - Julie Mullaney

92 on Emma Lew

93 on Christopher Middleton and Jesper Svenbro - John

      Muckle

94 on Dennis O'Driscoll, Michael Hamburger and Hans Magnus Enzensburger - Michael Kinsella

95 on Don Paterson and Lavinia Greenlaw - Oliver Dennis

96 on Mick Delap - Judy Kendall



Cover image: Helene von Taussig, 'Exotic Dancer',

   c.1926.



Cartoons: Martina Jirankova Limbrick and Michael

   Augustin