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July 1985

 
  • Philip Booth
  • Dannie Abse
  • James Berry
  • David Constantine
  • John Fuller
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The Curable Romantic

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The Explorers

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More than Meets the Eye

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Table of Contents

  • John Fuller
    • The Curable Romantic
    • Aubade ("Woken by the pale...")
    • Bud
  • Craig Raine
    • The Explorers
  • Peter Redgrove
    • More than Meets the Eye
    • Eden's Medicine
  • David Constantine
    • Sunken Cities
  • Penelope Shuttle
    • The Hell-Bender
    • The Knife Knows How
  • Medbh McGuckian
    • Ylang-Ylang
  • Anne Stevenson
    • Calendar
    • The Ballad of the Made Maid
  • Carol Rumens
    • Camouflage
  • Peter Porter
    • To Be on the Safe Side
    • Susannah and the Elders
  • Dennis O'Driscoll
    • Normally Speaking
    • Time Sharing
  • Bill Smith
    • Windy Bank
  • Peter Scupham
    • A Box of Ghosts
    • Observer Corps: 1940
  • Hugo Williams
    • Unfinished Poem
    • Waiting to Go On
  • Michael Hofmann
    • Not Talking
  • James Berry
    • What Is No Good?
  • Dannie Abse
    • Bloody Horse
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  • Philip Booth
    • Contemporary British Poetry: A Romantic Persistence?
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  • Craig Raine
  • Peter Redgrove
  • Carol Rumens
  • Peter Scupham
  • Penelope Shuttle
  • Bill Smith
  • Anne Stevenson
  • Hugo Williams
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