Table of Contents

0 Stella Halkyard Pictures from a Library 02 Editorial 03 News & Notes 06 Letters 72 Contributors 73 Michael Powell From Chetham's LibraryPoems18 Jeffrey Wainwright - Drawing Lessons24 Gabriella Attems - The Cabin Boy' & Others25 Evan Jones - Later Emperors26 Isabel Galleymore - 'The Starfish' & Others27 Mary Noonan - Two Poems28 David Wheatley - Biographia Literaria34 Tara Bergin - Two Poems39 Caroline Bird - Two Poems40 Gerry McGrath - 'The People on the Lawn' & Others41 Vidyan Ravinthiran - 'The Armchairs' & Others42 Linda Anderson - Sanctuary Sequence48 Joey Connolly - Why?50 Lisa Kelly - Apple Quartet52 Jodie Hollander - 'Caprice for Violin' & Others53 Adam Feinstein - Finding Dad54 Ned Denny - 'Who's She' & Others56 Gina Wilson - 'That crack...' & OthersFeatures20 Mark Thompson - Again Like a Dream: William Empson's The Face of the Buddha29 Greg O'Brien - The Book That Ate Itself: Travels in Surrealist New Zealand & Some Remarks on Surrealist Poetry in Britain36 Grevel Lindop - Interrogating Shugborough45 Chris Miller - Bruno & the 'Bonnefidelien' (i.m. Yves Bonnefoy)Reports7 Vahni Capildeo - Not to Speak a Form of Speaking8 Rowan Williams - Sir Geoffrey Hill10 Sam Adams - Letter from Wales11 R. F. Langley - From the Journals12 P. C. Evans - Letter from the Patent Office13 Tom Lowenstein - Caroline West's 'Chesil Bank Fall'15 Frank Kuppner - An Unforgettable Series of Journeys - on the Glasgow Underground16 Thomas Kinsella - Reading Wordsworth: Two poems from Lyrical BalladsReviews57 Nicolas Tredell - on Nikki Skillman58 Mark Thompson - on Helen Thaventhiran60 Grant Shipcott - on Nicholas Barker61 Matthew Creasy - on The Poems of T. S. Eliot63 Ross Cogan - on Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Lars Gustafsson64 David Spittle - on Jamie McKendrick and Derek Mahon66 Kevin J. Gardner - on Sean Street67 Timothy Harris - on Peter Makin68 Nicolas Tredell - on Sean Ashton69 David C. Ward - on Ben Lerner70 Alison Brackenbury - Twelve Pamphlets

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Contains a piece by 2016 Forward Prize winner Vahni Capildeo

About the Author

Michael Schmidt FRSL, poet, scholar, critic and translator, C107was born in Mexico in 1947; he studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford, before settling in England. Among his many publications are several collections of poems and a novel, The Colonist (1981), about a boy's childhood in Mexico. He is general editor of PN Review and founder as well as managing director of Carcanet Press. He lives in Manchester. Luke Allan studied Literature & Creative Writing at UEA. Before joining Carcanet in 2015 he worked as a project manager in the Arts in Newcastle and Edinburgh, and managed Studio Alec Finlay and the poetry press Morning Star. He is founding-director of the poetry press sine wave peak and co-founder of the poetry magazine Butcher's Dog; he also edits the journal Quait and is former editor of the Newcastle Philosophy Society journal. In 2011 his poetry received a Northern Promise Award. His first collection, minimum soft exchange, will be published by MIEL in 2015