Fleur Adcock
Patricia Beer
Charles Causley
Donald Davie
James Fenton
Thom Gunn
Tony Harrison
Seamus Heaney
John Heath-Stubbs
Ted Hughes
P. J. Kavanagh
Michael Longley
Czeslaw Milosz
Les Murray
John Peck
Gyorgy Petri
Craig Raine
Stephen Romer
Peter Scupham
C. H. Sisson
Ken Smith

'Most poets,' wrote Robert Hanks in the Independent, 'aren't likely to get an interviewer as knowledgeable and sympathetic as Wilmer.'

For Gillian Reynolds of the Telegraph, 'He proved an inspired choice . . . with a steady sense of judgment.'

Between autumn 1989 and spring 1992 Clive Wilmer interviewed a number of poets for Radio 3's 'Poet of the Month'. Poets Talking includes the transcripts of nineteen of these conversations, plus two interviews not recorded for the programme.

Wilmer chose poets he wanted to talk to, most of them with a substantial following, some deserving wider attention. Himself a poet of distinction, Wilmer speaks to fellow writers from within the craft they share. They discuss their lives, their approaches to language and form, and the ways in which their work draws upon and contributes to our common literary and civic worlds.