Tuesday
May082007
Chicago Review: British Poetry Issue
Tuesday 8 May, 2007
'The current British poetry issue presents two significant features.
The first—co-edited and introduced by Sam Ladkin & Robin Purves—presents 80 pages of poems by:
Andrea Brady
Chris Goode
Peter Manson
Keston Sutherland
Plus critical commentaries on the four poets by John Wilkinson, Jeremy Noel-Tod, Sam Ladkin, Simon Jarvis, & Matt Ffytche.
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The second feature presents fifteen reviews of new books of British poetry and well as some startling bonus material:
Calvin Bedient on Seamus Heaney & Charles Tomlinson
Forrest Gander on J.H. Prynne
V. Joshua Adams on Lee Harwood
R.H. Abbott on Michael Haslam
Michael Robbins on Martin Corless-Smith
Leila Wilson on Sarah Law
Heidi Lynn Staples on Peter Finch
Robert P. Baird on Peter Larkin
Rusty Morrison on Thomas A. Clark
John Lennox on Geraldine Monk
Kai Fierle Hedrick on Caroline Bergvall
Mark Scroggins on John Wilkinson
Peter Manson on Gael Turnbull
Adam Piette on Barry MacSweeney
Kent Johnson on Andrew Duncan
A long note by Keith Tuma on some younger British poets: Jow Lindsay, Emily Critchley, Sean Bonney, and others!
Letters by Peter Riley and Catherine Wagner
Poster insert by Andrew Duncan entitled "Styles of British Poetry 1945–2000"'
Familiarity breeds content.
The first—co-edited and introduced by Sam Ladkin & Robin Purves—presents 80 pages of poems by:
Andrea Brady
Chris Goode
Peter Manson
Keston Sutherland
Plus critical commentaries on the four poets by John Wilkinson, Jeremy Noel-Tod, Sam Ladkin, Simon Jarvis, & Matt Ffytche.
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* *
The second feature presents fifteen reviews of new books of British poetry and well as some startling bonus material:
Calvin Bedient on Seamus Heaney & Charles Tomlinson
Forrest Gander on J.H. Prynne
V. Joshua Adams on Lee Harwood
R.H. Abbott on Michael Haslam
Michael Robbins on Martin Corless-Smith
Leila Wilson on Sarah Law
Heidi Lynn Staples on Peter Finch
Robert P. Baird on Peter Larkin
Rusty Morrison on Thomas A. Clark
John Lennox on Geraldine Monk
Kai Fierle Hedrick on Caroline Bergvall
Mark Scroggins on John Wilkinson
Peter Manson on Gael Turnbull
Adam Piette on Barry MacSweeney
Kent Johnson on Andrew Duncan
A long note by Keith Tuma on some younger British poets: Jow Lindsay, Emily Critchley, Sean Bonney, and others!
Letters by Peter Riley and Catherine Wagner
Poster insert by Andrew Duncan entitled "Styles of British Poetry 1945–2000"'
Familiarity breeds content.
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