Welcome
to the ninth verbal manifestation of
Features
in this issue include:
Kubla
Hoopla! A terrible tale of
missing poem parts - see
Editorials
Unsung
Heroines of Martyrdom: the Pyre-Builders – see News
& Notes
Marius
Kociejowski
interviews Liu HongBin,
Chinese
poet in exile
Sebastian
Barker:
Monastery of Light: the Sitochori Poems
Carpe
Diem: a gift of a painting by David Hockney for all our
faithful readers – see Editorials
Common
Illnesses of Poets described and diagnosed in News & Notes
Oh,
the opportunistic tedium of the backyard poetry scene!
-
see Editorials
Tour
de Force! Nicholas Moore
translates
Baudelaire's 'Spleen' in
31 different ways
Tom
Lowenstein
re-enters Culbone Wood in the company of Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
The
luscious dependability of chocolate shrimps -
John
Ashbery
in conversation with Michael
Glover
The
Odd Coupling: early Sylvia
Plath
translates an even earlier Pierre
Ronsard, with
a learned afterword or two by
Yves Bonnefoy
Alison
Brackenbury
asks where all the short poems have gone
Where
Poets Should Live: a
Bow-Wow Shop
Users' Guide – see News
& Notes
Decapitating
the Angels: James Harpur
tells
dark tales of sacred desecration
A
Last Conversation: Michael Glover remembers
Herbert Lomas and
presents a selection of his unpublished poems
The
Bow-Wow Shop 20th
Century Poetry Pub Quiz:
an indispensible template
John
Hartley Willians describes the nature of EXTRILISM
And
Barry Fantoni issues
the Dépechist's
manifesto, an art movement for our times
Painter
George Shaw
describes POETS DAY
Marketing
the Inedible: Kevin
O'Rahilly
returns in News &
Notes
Mudwrestling
in Cyberspace: see News & Notes
Happy
200th!
The Edward Lear birthday
Picture Show
Solemn
Anniversary of the Poetry Paralympiad Announced in Editorials
The
mysterious afterlife of the Poetry
Review investigated in News
& Notes
New
poems by: Christopher
Middleton, Sebastian Barker, Matthew Clegg, Martin Kratz, Niall
Campbell, Kathryn Daszkiewicz, Miki Byrne, Tom Lowenstein, Donna
Jones, Ian Seed, Oliver Dixon, Roy Marshall, Neil Curry and James
Harpur
