The first issue of the Poetry Review under new editors David Herd and Robert Potts is out (did I, er-hem, mention before that I'm currently the Chair of the Poetry Society? - interest duly declared). The magazine is previewed at the Poetry Society's website at http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/ , where other details are also available, and includes: Andrew Duncan on the Tuma anthology (this essay is also up on the site) An essay by Ian Samson on "Happiness", and other essays on Elizabeth Bishop and Edwin Morgan New Work by John Tranter, John Ashbery, Clive Wilmer, Geoffrey Hill, and Alison Brackenbury and others Reviews which include Catriona O'Reilly on Kathleen Jamie, David Kennedy on Drew Milne, Jeremy Noel-Tod on J. H. Prynne, and others, and a questionnaire feature, one of whose respondents is Michael Haslam. The Poetry Society is also hosting a reading by John Tranter and Denise Riley, at the Poetry Studio in Betterton Street, London on August 15. Again details at that site. Richard ********************************************************************** Now open at the British Library Galleries: Trading Places : the East India Company and Asia (to 22 September) ********************************************************************* The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and notify the [log in to unmask] : The contents of this e-mail must not be disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the British Library. The British Library does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. *********************************************************************