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Rupert Loydell, Editor

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Current Articles

CURSE YOUR BRANCHES
David Bazan's new way of thinking

THE ROOM MUST BE FILLED
Philip Roth, Jeremy Reed & Myung Mi Kim

ANTICIPATION CROWDS THE CACTUS CAKE
Jake O'Leary's Language of Excess

ARCANA AND OTHER POEMS
James McLaughlin is transported

ON AND ON AND ON
Molly Peacock's The Second Blush

ACROSS THE PURPLE HEATHER
Peter Gillies on Thomas A Clark

YOU AS ONLY I KNOW
a poem sequence by John Mingay

MAKING WAVES
Nathan Thompson is in Poemland

A BIG BIT OF BREAD
& PLENTY OF CHEESE
Philip Terry on Jeremy Over

THREE SEA-WINDS
AND ONE TATTERED COAT
new titles reviewed by John Mingay

MORE THAN FOURTEEN LINES
Camille Martin's Sonnets

GOD OF HIS OWN IMAGINATION
David Briggs' Fool

VISTAS AND TWISTED EXPLANATIONS
James MacLaughlin's Odes

DAVID NASH IS NOT YOUR FRIEND
But he might be your cousin

HOMONYMS MADE PALPABLE AGAIN
Sheila E Murphy's Vespers

WHERE IT'S AT
Recent art and music books

WHERE DEEPS OF FEELING ARE
John McKeown's Sea of Leaves

EARS FINDING THE SHIFT
New freedoms, new translations

SCATTERING DUST IS GOOD PRACTICE
Camille Martin's double sonnets

THE EDITOR'S PICKS 2009

UNNATURAL EVOLUTION
Tony Lopez's Darwin

A CONTINENT APPEARS
Mary Michaels' Tide

A CENTURY OF POETRY REVIEW
Jane Holland catches her breath

SHE DREAMED; HIS WORLD SHIFTED
Carolyn Hart's Aurora

ANDY WARHOL IS NOT YOUR FRIEND
But he might be your cousin

SEARCHING FOR TROLLS
The Dark Monarch and The Psychick Bible

PENGUINS IN PERIWIGS
and other new poems by K.J. Hannah Greenberg

ONE WORLD OR ANOTHER
Peter Dent's interlocking planes

DECEIVING WILD CREATURES
Steve Spence on Jeremy Over

ARE WE NOT DRAWN...
On the beach with Peter Philpott

IT IS THE SAME VOICE IN THE MOUTH
Ian Seed repeats the procedure

THE DOOR OF TALDIR
Bill Sherman on Paul Evans

MISTS & FLAMES
Abi Curtis' Unexpected Weather

THE SWEEP AND TUG OF LANGUAGE
Alan Halsey's Term as in Aftermath

AN ASSAULT UPON THE CITADEL
Robert Sheppard's Warrant Error

FROM THE BOOK OF RANDOM ACCESS
Alan Baker is crossing the great water

SOME STATIC HAS TAKEN HOLD
Simon Perchik needs more batteries

NOAH NEVER RESTS
Peter Gillies reviews The Ark Builders

THERE IS WAY TOO MUCH
ALLITERATION IN THE SEA
James McLaughlin is having language problems

RECTANGLES NOT COTTONREELS
Phil Maillard is running full

LONDON: GHOST AUTOPSY
from Nick Scammell's sequence

HEY, DEAN YOUNG!
Tom Craze is experiencing a sugar low

ANIMALS ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS
"I wish he had written much more."

REMARKABLE
Botsotso. An anthology of contemporary
South African poetry

IAN McKEEVER AND ALAN GOUK
Rupert Loydell tries to get the overall picture

THE BACKWOODSMAN
Martin Caseley on Robert Frost on campus

POETRY AS A MIRROR OF THE NATION
David Kennedy reviews Voice Recognition

NEVER SITTING STILL FOR LONG
Steve Waling on four new collections

KNOWLEDGE OF TREES
Angela Topping on Peter Street

PABLO NERUDA WANTED TO
John Levy talks to spiders

SETTING THE IMAGINATION TO WORK
Rob Mackenzie is left feeling slightly lyrical

YOU ARE ALIVE & CAN THINK
despite the evidence, says Martin Stannard

A MODE OF MIND
David Hart tussles with more translations

A PASSAGE TO MORE THAN INDIA
Phil Maillard on John Gimblett

BLOGGER & BLATHER
Bill Greenwell doesn't get it

UPBEAT & DOWNBEAT
Betsy Sholl & Kevin Goodan

WHAT IS A POET WITHOUT A WINDOW?
Lauren Witts looks out

REINVENTING THE LANDSCAPE
Chris McCully & Matthew Welton

MEDITATIONS, SPECULATIONS, FRAGMENTS
Bill Greenwell on 3 new collections

THE SEA'S NOT LEVEL
declares Glenn R. Frantz

UNSETTLED OR INDEFINITE
James McLaughlin gets experimental

AS IF
Brandon Roy's Unusual Zoo

NO TRUTHS LIKE THE OLD TRUTHS
Gary Boswell on Adrian Mitchell & John Agard

MY OWN DEAD & NAKED POET
thinks Mark Goodwin

KEEPING SALT SOLVENT
Phil Brown on Luke Kennard & Tom Chivers

TALKING ABOUT ART
Recent art books, July 2009

A NOTE ON PROCESS
by George Ttoouli

SECRET MEANINGS
Ben Parker on 3 new collections

THE MARMALADE MY FRIEND IS ALL ON ME
confesses Nathan Thompson

NOWHERE'S FAR
Phil Bowen is strangely contemporary

SLIPPERY STUFF
Marina Tsvetaeva's New Selected Poems

THE PALACE OF OBLIVION
George Ttoouli on Peter Davidson

DON'T COUNT ON DECENCY
The Chronicles of Dave Turnip

A RIVER MIGHT EMERGE AS A METAPHOR
Jesse Garrick's Storied Rivers

LANGUAGE AND THINGS
Steve Spence on Giles Goodland

THE OLD DEVIL
R.S. Thomas' letters

INTERVIEWS & OVERVIEWS,
BIOGRAPHIES & BULLSHIT
Recent music books, June 2009

TWENTY MINUTES IN MANHATTAN
Michael Sorkin's New York

A GUIDE TO THE PERPLEXED?
Steve Spence on Philip Kuhn

DID WE SEE WHAT WE THOUGHT WE SAW?
Peter Dent skips the clear out

VISIBLE, AUDIBLE, TRUE OR FAITHFUL?
Larissa Miller & Augustus Young

MEMOS TO SELF
A is for anything you want it to be

FAITH & TRUST
Gardening with Cole Swensen

THE TASK IN HAND
David Hart on new translations

HOWLING IN THE DARK
at The Migraine Hotel

SOMETHING FROM NOTHING
new poems by Daniel Y Harris

PROBLEMS WITH HUMANS
Adrienne Rich's essays

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