Contents
EDITORIALS Michael Glover 1
NEWS & NOTES 3
JOHN ASHBERY interviewed by Michael Glover 4
SEBASTIAN BARKER, The Sitochori Poems 5
GEORGE SHAW describes 'Poets Day' 6
MATTHEW CLEGG, poems 7
KATHRYN DASZKIEWITZ, poems 8
LIU HONGBIN interviewed by MARIUS KOCIEJOWSKI 9
SYLVIA PLATH translates PIERRE RONSARD, with an
essay by YVES BONNEFOY 10
CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON, new poems 11
PETER DANIELS translates Vladislav Khodasevich 12
NIALL CAMPBELL, new poems 13
BARRY FANTONI launches DEPECHISM,
the new art movement for our times 14
JAMES HARPUR on sacred art and the currents
of iconoclasm 15
JOHN HARTLEY WILLIAMS describes the condition of
Extrilism 16
MIKI BYRNE, new poems 17
DONNA JONES, a new poem 18
MARTIN KRATZ, new poems 19
NEIL CURRY, new poems 20
IAN SEED, new poems 21
OLIVER DIXON, new poems 22
TOM LOWENSTEIN lipsyncs for SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
in a new extract from In Culbone Wood 23
ROY MARSHALL, new poems 24
THE BOW-WOW SHOP 20th CENTURY POETRY PUB QUIZ:
a template 25
Happy 200th! The EDWARD LEAR Birthday Picture Show 26
Our Last Conversation: A Tribute to HERBERT LOMAS,
with a selection of unpublished poems 27
NICHOLAS MOORE translates BAUDELAIRE's poem 'Spleen' in
thirty-one different ways 28
ALISON BRACKENBURY on the fate of the short poem 29
REVIEWS by JAMES-SUTHERLAND-SMITH,
PETER DANIELS,
HILARY DAVIES and OLIVER DIXON 30
CONTRIBUTORS 31
SUBMISSIONS/ARCHIVE 32
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 33