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Reviews, Reviewees - A
Reviews, Reviewees - A
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Josephine Abbott (The Infinite Knot) |
reviewed by Jane Draycott (2018)
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Peter Abbs (Icons Of Time) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1991)
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Peter Abbs (Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2003)
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Peter Abbs (Earth Songs: A Resurgence anthology of contemporary eco-poetry, edited by Peter Abbs) |
reviewed by Peter Scupham (2004)
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Dannie Abse (Collected Poems 1948-1976) | reviewed by Neil Powell (1979) |
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Dannie Abse (Way Out in the Centre) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (1982)
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Dannie Abse (A Strong Dose of Myself) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1983)
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Shanta Acharya (What Survives is the Singing) |
reviewed by Ian Pople (2021)
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Gerrit Achterberg (selected poems, translated by Michael O'Loughlin) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
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Diane Ackerman (Jaguar of Sweet Laughter) |
reviewed by Richard Francis (1992)
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Peter Ackroyd (Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernism) |
reviewed by Andrew Crozier (1979)
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Peter Ackroyd (T. S. Eliot) |
reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1985)
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Peter Ackroyd (Chatterton) |
reviewed by Eavan Boland (1988)
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Virginia Hamilton Adair (Ants on the Melon) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (1997)
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Anna Adams (A Reply to Intercepted Mail) |
reviewed by Emma Fisher (1981)
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Anna Adams (Green Resistance: New Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Kate Price (1997)
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Sam Adams (Prichard's Nose) |
reviewed by Christopher Meredith (2010)
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Sam Adams (Letters from Wales: Memories and Encounters in Literature and Life) |
reviewed by Gwyneth Lewis (2024)
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Robert Adamson (Reading the River: Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Peter Riley (2005)
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Fleur Adcock (Below Loughrigg and The Inner Harbour) |
reviewed by Paul Wilkins (1981)
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Fleur Adcock (Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Ian McMillan (1984)
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Fleur Adcock (The Virgin and the Nightingale, Medieval Latin Poems translated by Fleur Adcock) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1984)
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Fleur Adcock (Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Michael Glover (1986)
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Fleur Adcock (The Incident Book) |
reviewed by Angela Smith (1988)
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Fleur Adcock (Selected Poems and Time Zones) |
reviewed by Tess Lewis (1992)
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Fleur Adcock (Looking Back) |
reviewed by Vona Groarke (1998)
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Fleur Adcock (Poems 1960-2000) |
reviewed by Julian Stannard (2000)
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Fleur Adcock (Dragon Talk) |
reviewed by Vivienne Neale (2010)
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Fleur Adcock (The Land Ballot) |
reviewed by Sue Leigh (2015)
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Fleur Adcock (Hoard) |
reviewed by Sue Leigh (2018)
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John Adlard (One Evening of Light Mist in London) |
reviewed by David Arkell (1981)
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John Adlard (the Lichfield Elegies) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1992)
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John Adlard (Songs for Dobra) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
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John Adlard (The Inextinguishable) |
reviewed by Anne Stevenson (1996)
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Lucile Adler (The Society of Anna) |
reviewed by Andrew Waterman (1978)
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John Agard (From the Devil's Pulpit) |
reviewed by Conor O'Callaghan (1999)
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Sister Mary Agnes (Harvest) |
reviewed by Toby Martinez de las Rivas (2017)
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Gösta Ågren (A Valley in the Midst of Violence translated by David McDuff) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
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AI (Vice: New and Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Ian Tromp (2000)
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AI (Dread) |
reviewed by Helena Nelson (2006)
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Conrad Aiken (Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken, ed. Joseph Killorin ) |
reviewed by D.G. Bridson (1979)
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Kaveh Akbar (The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine) |
reviewed by Rachel Mann (2023)
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Anna Akhmotova (Requiem and Poem without a Hero, translated by D. M. Thomas) |
reviewed by Jeffrey Wainwright (1978)
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Anna Akhmotova (Poems selected and translated by Lyn Coffin with an introduction by Joseph Brodsky) | reviewed by John Pilling (1984) |
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Anna Akhmotova (Selected Poems, translated by Richard McKane) | reviewed by John Pilling (1990) |
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Anna Akhmotova (The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, translated by Judith Herschemeyer, edited by Roberta Reeder) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
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Anna Akhmotova (My Half Century: selected prose edited by Ronald Meyer) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1995)
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Maram al-Massri (A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor: Selected Poems. Translated by Khaled Mattawa. Bilingual Arabic-English edition) |
reviewed by Eric Ormsby (2005)
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Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi (A Monkey at the Window: Selected Poems translated by Sarah Maguire and Mark Ford) |
reviewed by N.J. Stallard (2018)
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Adnan Al-Sayegh (Ten Poems) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)
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Alain-Fournier (Poems, translated by Anthony Costello, Anthony Howell & Anita Marsh) |
reviewed by Ian Brinton (2017)
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Laureano Albán (The Endless Voyage, translated by Frederick Fornoff ) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1986)
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Pierre Albert-Birot (The First Book of Grabinoulor, translated by Barbara Wright) |
reviewed by Kevin Taylor (1987)
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Anne-Marie Albiach ("Vocative Figure', revised second edition, translations by Anthony Barnett and Joesph Simas) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
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Richard Aldington (Exile and Other Poems) |
reviewed by John Greening (2024)
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Keith Aldritt (The Poet as Spy: The Life and Wild Times of Basil Bunting) |
reviewed by Ian Pople (1999)
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Yuz Aleshkovsky (Kangaroo, translated from the Russian by Tamara Glenny) |
reviewed by Raymond Cooke (1987)
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Yuz Aleshkovsky (Kangaroo, translated from the Russian by Tamara Glenny) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1990)
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Meena Alexander (Raw Silk) |
reviewed by Moniza Alvi (2005)
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Michael Alexander (The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound ) |
reviewed by William Cookson (1980)
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Michael Alexander (Old English Riddles from the Exeter Book ) |
reviewed by John Clarke (1981)
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Michael Alexander (Twelve Poems) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)
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Michael Alexander (Old English Literature) |
reviewed by Brian Morton (1985)
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Michael Alexander (Beowulf: A Verse Translation) |
reviewed by Matt Bryden (2002)
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Michael Alexander |
reviewed by Henry King (2008)
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Michael Alexander (Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England) |
reviewed by Judith Willson (2008)
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Pierre Alferi (Personal Pong) |
reviewed by James Keery (1999)
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Lucy Alford (Forms of Poetic Attention) |
reviewed by Chris Miller (2021)
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Ghazi Algosaibi (Arabian Essays) |
reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1983)
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Kazim Ali ( Inquisition) |
reviewed by Joe Carrick-Varty (2018)
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Dante Alighieri (The Divine Comedy: Inferno, trans. J.G. Nichols) |
reviewed by Andrew Hadfield (2011)
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A.M. Allchin (The Joy of All Creation: An Anglican Meditation on the Place of Mary) |
reviewed by Brian Morton (1985)
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Fergus Allen (Mrs Power Looks Over the Bay) |
reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (2000)
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Racheal Allen (Faber New Poets 9) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2015)
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Racheal Allen (Kingdomland) |
reviewed by Aoife Lyall (2021)
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Drummond Allison (Collected Poems, edited by Stephen Benson) |
reviewed by Charlie Louth (1995)
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Drummond Allison (Collected Poems) |
reviewed by Bernard Bergonzi (1995)
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Gillian Allnutt |
reviewed by Neil Powell (1989)
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Gillian Allnutt (Blackthorn) |
reviewed by Rennie Parker (1995)
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Gillian Allnutt (Nantucket and the Angel) |
reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (1998)
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Gillian Allnutt (Nantucket and the Angel) |
reviewed by Michael Tolkien (1998)
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Gillian Allnutt (Lintel) |
reviewed by Sophie Hannah (2001)
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Gillian Allnutt (Sojourner) |
reviewed by Oliver Dennis (2005)
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Antony Alper (The Life of Katherine Mansfield) |
reviewed by Claire Harman (1981)
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Nuar Alsadir (Fourth Person Singular) |
reviewed by Sasha Dugdale (2018)
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Charles Altieri (The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After) |
reviewed by Edward Ragg (2006)
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A. Alverez (New and Selected Poems) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2003)
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Susan Amert (In A Shattered Mirror: the later poetry of Anna Akhmatova) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
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Yehuda Amichai (Amen) |
reviewed by Paul Wilkins (1980)
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Yehuda Amichai (Love Poems: a bilingual selection) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1983)
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Yehuda Amichai (The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1997)
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Kingsley Amis (Collected Poems 1944-1979) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (1980)
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Martin Amis (Einstein's Monsters) |
reviewed by Mark Thompson (1988)
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Martin Amis (Experience) |
reviewed by Frederic Raphael (2000)
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A.R. Ammons (The Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Michael Hamburger (1979)
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A.R. Ammons (The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons) |
reviewed by Richard Francis (1992)
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A.R. Ammons (Collected Poems, 1951-1971; Garbage. A Poem; and Worldly Hopes) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2002)
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Michael Anania (Riversongs) |
reviewed by Andrew Waterman (1981)
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Michael Anania (Continuous Showings and Nightsongs & Clamors) |
reviewed by Ian Pople (2020)
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Anthony Anaxagorou (After the Formalities) |
reviewed by Evan Jones (2020)
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Linda Anderson (The Station Before) |
reviewed by Genevieve Stevens (2020)
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Perry Anderson (A Zone of Engagement and English Questions) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1992)
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Perry Anderson (The Origins of Postmodernity) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1999)
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Carlos Drummond De Andrade (The Minus Sign, translated from the Portuguese by Virginia de Araujo) |
reviewed by Donald Davie (1982)
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Eugénio de Andrade |
reviewed by John Pilling (1986)
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Chris Andrews (Lime Green Chair) |
reviewed by Aime Williams (2013)
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Elmer Andrews (The Poetry of Seamus Heaney) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1989)
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Nin Andrews (The Book of Orgasms) |
reviewed by Robert P. Jones (2003)
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Ivo Andric (Conversation with Goya translated by Celia Hawkesworth and Andrew Harvey) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
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Maya Angelou (On the Pulse of the Morning) |
reviewed by Richard Francis (1993)
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Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (The Scattered Papers of Penelope: New and Selected Poems ) |
reviewed by Evan Jones (2009)
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Diana Anphimiadi (Beginning to Speak) |
reviewed by Rory Waterman (2019)
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Romalyn Ante (Antiemetic for Homesickness) |
reviewed by Yvonne Reddick (2021)
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Guillaume Apollinaire (The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire, translated by Donald Revell) |
reviewed by Robert Archambeau (2005)
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Aharon Appelfeld (To the Land of the Reeds) |
reviewed by Bernard Harrison (1988)
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Aharon Appelfeld (The Immortal Bartfuss, translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1989)
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Louis Aragon (Treatise on Style translated and with an introduction by Alyson Waters) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1992)
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Louis Aragon (Les Chambres, tr. John Manson) |
reviewed by Jamie Osborn (2019)
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Jean Arasanayagam (Reddened Water Flows Clear) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1991)
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Robert Archambeau (Home and Variations) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2005)
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Robert Archambeau (Laureates and Heretics) |
reviewed by Henry King (2010)
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Emma-Jane Arkady (Lithium) |
reviewed by Ian Pople (2003)
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David Arkell (Looking for Laforgue, an informal biography) |
reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1981)
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Rae Armatrout (Next Life) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2008)
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Rae Armatrout (Versed) |
reviewed by John Muckle (2009)
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Rae Armatrout (Versed) |
reviewed by Henry King (2010)
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Rae Armatrout (Money Shot) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2011)
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Rae Armatrout (Party: New and Selected Poems 2001â2015) |
reviewed by Ian Pople (2018)
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Simon Armitage (Zoom!) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1990)
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Simon Armitage (Kid) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1992)
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Simon Armitage (Xanadu) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
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Simon Armitage (Book of Matches) |
reviewed by Keith Silver (1994)
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Simon Armitage (Killing Time) |
reviewed by Jem Poster (2000)
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Simon Armitage (The Universal Home Doctor) |
reviewed by Sarah Wardle (2005)
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Simon Armitage (Homer's Odyssey and Tyrannosaurus Rex versus the Corduroy Kid) |
reviewed by Stephen Procter (2007)
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Simon Armitage (Homer's Odyssey) |
reviewed by Henry King (2008)
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Simon Armitage (Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989â2014) |
reviewed by Rachel Mann (2015)
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Simon Armitage (Pearl) |
reviewed by Jane Draycott (2016)
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Karen Armstrong (A Short History of Myth) |
reviewed by Lawrence Coupe (2006)
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Paul B. Armstrong (Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1991)
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Craig Arnold (Shells) |
reviewed by Ian Tromp (1999)
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Les Arnold (Shaker City) |
reviewed by Jeremy Hooker (2000)
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Nicky Arscott (Soft Mutation) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
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Mona Arshi (Dear Big Gods) |
reviewed by Hal Coase (2020)
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Kevyn Alan Arthur (England and Nowhere) |
reviewed by Ruth Morse (1994)
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Manuel Asensi (J. Hillis Miller; or, Boustrophedonic Reading, trans. Mabel Richart) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2000)
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John Ash (The Bed & other poems) |
reviewed by Harry Guest (1983)
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John Ash (The Goodbyes) |
reviewed by Robert Sheppard (1984)
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John Ash (Disbelief ) |
reviewed by Robert Sheppard (1988)
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John Ash (Two Books: The Anatolikon / To the City) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (2003)
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John Ashbery (As We Know) |
reviewed by Simon Howard (1982)
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John Ashbery (Flow Chart) |
reviewed by Richard Francis (1992)
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John Ashbery (Hotel Lautreamont) |
reviewed by Richard Francis (1993)
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John Ashbery (And the Stars Were Shining) |
reviewed by Richard Francis (1994)
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John Ashbery (Can You Hear, Bird) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1996)
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John Ashbery (The Mooring of Starting Out and Wakefulness) |
reviewed by Roger Caldwell (1998)
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John Ashbery (Other Traditions. Charles Eliot Norton Lectures and Your Name Here) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2001)
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John Ashbery (A Worldly Country) |
reviewed by Daniel Kane (2007)
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John Ashbery (Something Close to Music) |
reviewed by Harry Sanderson (2022)
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Cliff Ashby (The Dogs of Dewsbury) |
reviewed by David Wright (1978)
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Cliff Ashby (Lies & Dreams) |
reviewed by Ian McMillan (1983)
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Cliff Ashby (Plain Song: Collected Poems 1960-1985) |
reviewed by Michael Cullup (1986)
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David Ashford (John Company, An Epic) |
reviewed by Paul Ingram (2023)
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Sean Ashton (Living in a Land) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2016)
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Anthony Astbury (A Field of Large Daises: A Greville Press Anthology 1975-2010 edited by Anthony Astbury) |
reviewed by Will Eaves (2011)
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Virginia Astley (The Curative Harp) | reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2015) |
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Miguel Angel Asturias (Men of Maize, translated by Gerald Martin) |
reviewed by Stephe M. Hart (1989)
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Polly Atkin (Much with Body) |
reviewed by Charlotte Wetton (2022)
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Donald Atkinson (Graffiti For Hard Hearts) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
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Tiffany Atkinson (Catulla et Al) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2012)
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Tiffany Atkinson (So Many Moving Parts) |
reviewed by Lucy Sheerman (2016)
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Attar (The Conference of the Birds translated by Sholeh Wolpe) |
reviewed by Ian Pople (2018)
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Derek Attridge (Moving Words: Forms of English Poetry) |
reviewed by David Spittle (2014)
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Derek Attridge (The Work Of Literature) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2015)
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David Attwooll (David Attwooll (poems) & Andrew Walton (drawings) Otmoor) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)
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Margaret Atwood (Murder in the Dark) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1985)
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Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale) |
reviewed by Elizabeth Baines (1987)
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Margaret Atwood (Poems 1965-1975) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1991)
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Margaret Atwood (Morning in the Burned House) |
reviewed by Keith Silver (1995)
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Margaret Atwood (The Penelopiad) |
reviewed by Lawrence Coupe (2006)
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W.H. Auden (Collected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelson) |
reviewed by Alan Young (1978)
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W.H. Auden (Norse Poems) |
reviewed by Bill Manhire (1982)
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W.H. Auden (The Critical Heritage, edited by John Haffenden ) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (1985)
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W.H. Auden (Letters from Iceland) |
reviewed by Mark Thompson (1986)
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W.H. Auden |
reviewed by Janet Montefiore (1997)
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W.H. Auden (Prose 1926-1938) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (1998)
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Michael Augustin (A Certain Koslowski â The Directorâs Cut) |
reviewed by Ross Cogan (2020)
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Paul Auster (The Art of Hunger and Other Essays) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1983)
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Paul Auster (Collected Poems) |
reviewed by Evan Jones (2009)
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Annemarie Austin (Back from the Moon) |
reviewed by Judy Kendall (2004)
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George Austin (A Journey to Faith) |
reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1992)
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Janette Ayachi (Hand Over Mouth Music) |
reviewed by Hal Coase (2020)
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Leo Aylen (Return to Zululand) |
reviewed by Peter Howe (1981)
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Leo Aylen (Red Alert: This Is A God Warning) |
reviewed by Ian McMillan (1982)
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