Where Now for Political Culture?
Volume 98, No 3, Autumn 2008
Editor: Fiona Sampson
Poems
Robin Robertson, Tulips
Paul Farley, Moles, Newts
Craig Raine, Davos Documentary B&W
D.H.W. Grubb, Blue On Blue
Elaine Feinstein, A Dream Of Prague
Alan Jenkins, A Version Of Pastoral
Andrew Sant, Marvellous Harbours
Anjela Polonskaya, The Sea Has Neither Swans Nor
Bright Bedrooms
Paul Batchelor, Blodeuwedd
Tim Liardet, Like Slant Rain
John F. Deane, Ever This Night
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, Small Fox
Corsino Fortes, Letter From Bia d’Ideal (Cape Verde)
Thomas Lynch, Dear Mr. President
Political Culture? Two Poems, One Commission, Several Questions
Bernardine Evaristo, Normal
Carole Satyamurti ,The Legend Of The Dead Soldier
Matthew Sweeney, Fans
Greta Stoddart In The Kitchen
Tom Gilliver, from Vita E Bela
Anthony Thwaite, Approaching
Paul Henry, Wyneb Dros Do
Robert Hamberger, Arsehole Sonnet
Paul Bentley, Barnsley Abu (A Postcard to Paul Muldoon)
Chris Preddle, Second Letter To Ed
Peter Emerson, Downed Singer
Joe Dunthorne, Workshop Dream
Kajal Ahmad, The Letter
i. m. Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish, At A Train Station That Fell Off The Map
Centrefold
The Poetry Review Debate
John Walsh, Poetry And Political Culture
Blake Morrison,How Poetry Can Make Things Happen
Gwyneth Lewis, Criss-Crossings: Literary Adventures On Irish And Welsh Shores
Michel Hockx, Print Culture And The New Media In Post-Socialist China
Stephen Watts, ‘My Grandfather Worked In Pizza Express’
James W. Wood, ‘Song Of Scotland’
Reviews & Endpapers
John Burnside on Mick Imlah
Steven Matthews on Jorie Graham and Yang Lian
Sarah Crown on Elaine Feinstein
David Morley on Moniza Alvi
Douglas Houston on Vernon Scannell, Stephen Romer and Grey Gowrie
Sarah Wardle on Selima Hill
Vahni Capildeo on Vona Groarke, Andrew Sant, Ciaran Berry, Paul Batchelor, and Fady Joudah
Elaine Feinstein on Peretz Markish
Ruth O’Callaghan on Margo Berdeshevsky, Elena Shvarts and Adrienne Rich
Yves Bonnefoy, The Curved Planks
Editorial
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