Ars poeticaCover of Poetry Review 97:2

Volume 97, No 2, Summer 2007

Editor: Fiona Sampson 

Scott Morris talked to Fiona Sampson about the issue...

 

Is Performance Poetry Dead?

Find out in Cornelia Grabner's article which explores the genre's social and political roots. With comments from Luke Wright and Lemn Sissay

The Lyric Principle: Part 1: The Sense of Sound.

What makes a poem? Don Paterson looks at the properties, qualities and essential elements needed to make a poem. To be continued in the autumn issue.

 

 

 

 

Poems

Andrea Dow, Semele
Peter Porter, The Castaway Is Washed Ashore
John Burnside, An Essay Concerning Solitude
Medbh McGuckian, How Despair May Be Transformed Into A Diamond,
Tavoletta
David Morley, Sèsi O Lety Písku
Ruth Padel, Mother Of Pearl
Neetha Kunaratnam, The Afterlife
Jean Sprackland, Thaw
J.P.Nosbaum, Hiroshige Misremembered
Linda Chase, Sometimes Snow
Ian Davidson, Skulte And Saulkrasti
Tomaž Šalamun, The Man I Respected, Scarlet Toga
Claire Malroux, Grottoes
Pascale Petit, The Treekeeper’s Tale
John F. Deane, The Jesus Bones
Tim Liardet, Ur-blue
Jane Duran, Tuna
Anne Stevenson, Before Eden
Conor O’Callaghan, The Pilot Light, The Armoury Golf Range
Seán O’Ríordáin, Apathy Is Out
Nick Laird, Terrain
Matthew Francis, Was
Tom Lowenstein, Six Untitled Poems From A Longer Sequence
Stephen Knight, Where I Stand
Jane Holland, Flood At Boscastle
John Powell Ward, The Humanist’s Creed
Gregory Warren Wilson, Sleepless At Dawn
Friedrich Hölderlin, Brevity

Centrefold

Don Paterson, The Lyric Principle: Part 1: The Sense Of Sound
Christian Wiman, Some Notes On Poetry And Religion
Cornelia Grabner, Is Performance Poetry Dead?

Reviews

Steve Matthews on Edwin Morgan
David Morley on John Burnside's new direction
Niall Griffiths on the Collected Tony Harrison
Adam Thorpe on poems of widowhood from Tess Gallagher and Elaine Feinstein
Jay Parini on poetry of Ireland: Thomas Kinsella, Eavan Boland and Maurice Riordan
Kit Fan on cultural archaeology by Simon Armitage, Sean O’Brien and Louise Gluck
Jane Holland on debuts by Daljit Nagra, Claire Crowther and Tiffany Atkinson
Alan Brownjohn on the poetry wars…
Tim Liardet on the embodied self in Bill Manhire, Michael Schmidt and John Agard
Roger Caldwell on Caroline Bird, Sasha Dugdale, Katherine Gallagher and Claire Shaw
Meryl Pugh on three books in search of the contemporary audience for poetry

Endpapers

Editorial
Yuyutsu R D Sharma, Letter from Kathmandu
Letter to the Editor
Prose Sculpture Poems
Contributors