CONTENTS

EDITORIALS             Michael Glover                                      1                                                                                         

NEWS & NOTES                                                                  3

THE BOW-WOW SHOP INDEX                                                4

EXCLUSIVE: EZRA POUND - an unseen drawing

by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska                                                      5

MARIUS KOCIEJOWSKI interviews a master

calligrapher in Aleppo                                                           6

JAMES SUTHERLAND-SMITH, new photo-poems                        7

FILM: DAME POLLY SYLLABIX reads from her

Collected Works                                                                   8

JOHN GREENING, three new poems                                        9

JULIAN BELL on Van Gogh and Poetry                                   10

MIKE BARTHOLOMEW-BIGGS, three new poems                     11

PETER REDGROVE, three unpublished poems

from the notebooks                                                           12

ROBERT CHANDLER on the untranslatability of

Pushkin                                                                            13

ROBERT ETTY, four new poems                                            14

POETS AT THE CINEMA: JOHN MOLE

three new cinema poems and 'The Flickering Dark,'  

cinematic encounters during childhood                                   15

HELEN TOOKEY, eight new poems                                         16

THE BOW-WOW SHOP'S first on-line chapbook:

NORM SIBUM's new homage to Sextus Propertius                    17

The British Poetry Debate: JAMES SUTHERLAND-

SMITH and CAROL RUMENS                                                 18

ROZ GODDARD, four new poems                                          19

An unpublished interview with CZESLAW MILOSZ                     20

RICCARDO HELD - a Venetian poet translates

some of Shakespeare's sonnets into Italian                             21

POETS AT THE CINEMA: ADAM FEINSTEIN

examines how poets have been represented and

misrepresented on the Big Screen                                         22

PETER ROBINSON, five new poems                                       23

MICHAEL GLOVER goes in pursuit of the ghost of

BERTOLT BRECHT in East Berlin                                            24

SUE HUBBARD, a new poem, with a Bow-Wow Shop

afternote about the flamboyant painter Yves Klein                   25

FILM: FANTIN LE FLANEUR blows a furious omarge to

e e cummings on the clarinet                                               26

ANNA DEAR, two new poems                                               27

MARTYN CRUCEFIX climbs Mam Tor with Milton's

'On Education' strapped to his back                                       28

PENELOPE SHUTTLE, four new poems                                   29

JAMES HARPUR finds something that painters can

do better than poets: still life                                               30

GABRIEL LEVIN translates HAIM NACHMAN BIALIK       31                            

FILM: A Tribute to JOHN ASHBERY - Ana Gumowska

and Desdemona O'Rahilly read 'This Room,'

simultaneously, in Russian and Polish!                                   32

Poets in Wartime: an extract from A Levant Journal

By GEORGE SEFERIS                                                          33

Poets in Wartime: Isaac Rosenberg,

painter and poet                                                                34

IVAN BUNIN: a short story, newly translated from

the Russian by ROBERT CHANDLER                                       35

REVIEWS:

Pamphlets reviewed by PETER DANIELS:

Oscar & Henry, Katy Evans-Bush

A Paston Letter, Ian Parks

Mistral, David Kennedy

Here's to the Home Country, Philip Morre

NEW COLLECTIONS reviewed by SUE HUBBARD:

Botsotso: an anthology of contemporary South

African Poetry, ed. Allan Kolski Horwitz & Ken Edwards         

Facing the Public, Martina Evans                                

Stone Poems, Douglas Skrief                                  

Hunts: poems 1979-2009, John Greening                    

Life Class, Glyn Hughes, Shoestring Press,

To the Moon - an anthology of Lunar Poems,                 

ed. Carol Ann Duffy                                                        

A Century of Poetry Review, ed. Fiona Sampson

New Collected Poems, Charles Tomlinson

Spindrift, Vona Groarke

Through the Square Window, Sinead Morrissey

Picasso, I Want My Face Back, Grace Nichols

New Collected Poems, Sylvia Townsend Warner 

Life is a Dream: Forty Years Reading Poems,            

Paul Durcan

A Genius for Failure: the life of Benjamin

Robert Haydon, Paul O'Keeffe          36

SUBMISSIONS                                                                37

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS                                                     38

CONTRIBUTORS                                                              39