A Bow-Wow Shop Primer: how to Interview Lord Byron

(or perhaps any other poet)                                               4

De Mirabilibis Pecci or The 7 Wonders - how

Enlightenment philosopher Thomas Hobbes inspired an

exhibition of  poetry and painting in celebration of

the Peak District                                                               5

TOM LOWENSTEIN, From Culbone Wood to Xanadu -

an extract from a prose poem in progress                            6

JOHN CRACE on why contemporary verse is so slippery         7

MARK ROPER,  four new poems                                         8

NANCY CAMPBELL goes in pursuit of poetry at the

Arctic Circle                                                                       9

EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH, two new poems                            10

JOHN HARTLEY-WILLIAMS descends into

the Poetry Inferno                                                             11

ROSEMARY SHEPPERD, six new poems                               12

BARRY FANTONI explains why poetry is tastier than a

maggoty apple                                                                   13

JUDITH KAZANTZIS, two new poems and an extract

from  a spasmodic memoir in progress                                   14

DAVID COOKE, six new poems                                             15

BRUNO CORSI, six newly discovered Ploems                           16

ROBERT SAXTON, four new poems                                        17

A Bow-Wow Shop investigation: How Editors Choose

What to Publish                                                                    18

MALCOLM CARSON, three poems from the 'Edgar'

sequence                                                                             19

A Bow-Wow Shop enquiry: why the French and

Lucian Freud don't quite fit                                                      20

IAN PARKS, six new poems                                                    21

HAMID ISMAILOV describes his various with English

Love Affairs                                                                          22

INGEBORG BACHMANN, five poems newly translated by

Hilary Kassman and Dorothea Grünzweig                                   23

PAUL ROSSITER describes Thomas A. Clark's version

of pastoral                                                                            24

MICHAEL GLOVER admires André Breton's indomitable wall

at the Centre Pompidou in Paris                                               25

REVIEWS:

NEW COLLECTIONS reviewed by JAMES SUTHERLAND-SMITH:

Christopher Pilling, Springing from Catullus

Sylva Fischerová, The Swing in the Middle of Chaos

Helen Ivory, The Breakfast Machine

Cheryl Follon, Dirty Looks

Elaine Randell, Faulty Mothering

Michael Haslam, A Cure for Woodness

PAMPHLETS reviewed by PETER DANIELS:

Graham Fulton, Twenty-Three Umbrellas

Words on Canvas: twenty new writers look at works in the National Galleries of Scotland

Clare Best, Treasure Ground

Paula Jennings, From the Body of the Green Girl

Jon Stone, Scarecrows

John McCullough, The Lives of Ghosts

Jude Rosen, A Small Gateway

Carole Bromley, Skylight

Sally Goldsmith, Singer

Anna Woodford, Party Piece

Other reviews:

Derek Walcott, White Egrets

Heimrad Backer, Transcript

John Ash, In the Wake of the Day

Brian Henry, Quarantine

Ernest Farres, Edward Hopper

Molly Peacock, The Second Blush                                        26

SUBMISSIONS     27                   

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS                                                  28

CONTRIBUTORS                                                           29