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Reviews, Reviewees - F
Reviews, Reviewees - F
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Ekbert Faas (Ted Hughes: The Unaccommodated Universe) |
reviewed by Elizabeth Waltheer (1982)
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Jenni Fagan (The Bone Library) |
reviewed by Aoife Lyall (2023)
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B.H. Fairchild (The Art of the Lathe) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (1999)
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Colin Falck |
reviewed by Raymond Tallis (1992)
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Colin Falck (Memorabilia) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1993)
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Padraic Fallon (Poems (1974)) |
reviewed by Stan Smith (1977)
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Padraic Fallon (Poems and Versions) |
reviewed by Neil Corcoran (1984)
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Padraic Fallon (Collected Poems, edited by Brian Fallon, with a foreword by Seamus Heaney) |
reviewed by Eavan Boland (1990)
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Peter Fallon (The Georgics of Virgil, translated by Peter Fallon) |
reviewed by Len Krisak (2005)
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Gerard Fanning (Easter Snow) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
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Louis Fantasia (Instant Shakespeare: A Proven Technique for Actors, Directors and Teachers) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (2003)
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John Fante (Ask the Dust; Dreams from Bunker Hill; The Wine of Youth; Wait Until Spring, Bandini; and West of Rome) |
reviewed by Peter Hazeldine (1989)
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U.A. Fanthorpe (Side Effects) |
reviewed by Peter Scupham (1980)
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U.A. Fanthorpe (Voices Off) |
reviewed by C.B. McCully (1986)
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U.A. Fanthorpe (A Watching Brief ) |
reviewed by Edwina Burness (1989)
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U.A. Fanthorpe (Neck-Verse) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
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U.A. Fanthorpe (Safe as Houses) |
reviewed by Marcella Edwards (1996)
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U.A. Fanthorpe (Christmas Poems) |
reviewed by Oliver Dennis (2003)
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U.A. Fanthorpe (Queuing for the Sun) |
reviewed by James McGrath (2003)
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U.A. Fanthorpe (Collected Poems 1978-2003) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2006)
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Michael Farley (Liminal and Harry Guest, Dealing with the Real World) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (1989)
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Paul Farley (The Ice Age) |
reviewed by David Green (2003)
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Paul Farley (Deaths of the Poets) |
reviewed by Tony Roberts (2017)
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Hans Faverey (Against the Forgetting: selected poems translated by Francis R. Jones) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1995)
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Vicki Feaver (Close Relatives) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1981)
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Vicki Feaver (The Handless Maiden) |
reviewed by Will Eaves (1995)
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Vicki Feaver (The Book of Blood) |
reviewed by Barry Wood (2007)
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Raymond Federman (Smiles on Washington Square) |
reviewed by Richard Martin (1986)
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Elaine Feeney (Rise) |
reviewed by Cian Murphy (2017)
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Lily Feiler (Marina Tsvetaeva: the Double Beat of Heaven and Hell) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1995)
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Elaine Feinstein (Some Unease and Angels) |
reviewed by Emma Fisher (1980)
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Elaine Feinstein (A Captive Lion: the life of Marina Tsvetayevá) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1988)
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Elaine Feinstein (Daylight) | reviewed by Ruth Fainlight (1997) |
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Elaine Feinstein (Dark Inheritance and Gold) |
reviewed by Eibhlín Evans (2001)
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Elaine Feinstein (Cities) |
reviewed by Dan Burt (2010)
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Frederick Feirstein (Fallout) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2009)
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Jennie Feldman (The Lost Notebook) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2006)
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Jennie Feldman (Swift) |
reviewed by Aime Williams (2013)
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Alison Fell (Kisses for Mayakovsky) |
reviewed by Chris McCully (1986)
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Alison Fell (Lightyear, with photographs by Ivan Coleman) |
reviewed by Jennifer L. Bauman (2006)
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Cliff Fell (The Adulterer's Bible) |
reviewed by Vivienne Neale (2004)
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John Felstiner (Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew) |
reviewed by Chris Gribble (1996)
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John Felstone (Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1999)
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James Fenton (Out of Danger) |
reviewed by Roger Caldwell (1994)
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James Fenton (An Introduction to English Poetry) |
reviewed by N.S. Thompson (2002)
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Mária Ferenčuhová (Tidal Events: Selected Poems, translated by James Sutherland-Smith) |
reviewed by Ian Seed (2018)
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Feyyaz Fergar (The Bright is Dark Enough) |
reviewed by James Kirkup (1994)
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Howard A. Fergus (Volcano Verses) |
reviewed by Ian Dieffenthaller (2005)
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Robert Ferguson (Robert Ferguson, Henry Miller: A Life ) |
reviewed by Dominic Bevin (1991)
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Margaret W. Ferguson, (Rewriting the Renaissance. The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe, in series Women in Culture and Society, ed. Catherine R. Stimpson ) |
reviewed by Lynne Hancock and Lyndal Roper (1989)
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Gabriel Ferrater (Women and Days, translated by Arthur Terry) |
reviewed by Ian Pople (2005)
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Paul Ferris (Dylan Thomas) |
reviewed by Jem Poster (1987)
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David Ferry (Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse) |
reviewed by Kate Chisholm (1993)
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David Ferry (Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations and On This Side of the River: Selected Poems ) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2013)
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Jerzy Ficowski (Jerzy Ficowski, A Reading of Ashes, translated by Keith Bosley and Krystyna Wandycz ) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)
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Eva Figes (The Seven Ages) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1987)
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John Figueroa (The Chase) |
reviewed by Ruth Morse (1994)
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Annie Finch (Calendars) |
reviewed by Valerie Duff (2004)
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Peter Finch (Getting your Poetry Published and How to Publish your Poetry) |
reviewed by Robert Sheppard (1986)
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Roger Finch (What is Written in the Wind and Winter Sunlight) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1986)
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Roger Finch (According to Lilies) |
reviewed by James Kirkup (1993)
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Alec Finlay (Less 7 and Question your Teaspoons: Stonypathian Memories) |
reviewed by Heather Yeung (2012)
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Ian Hamilton Finlay (Heroic Emblems: introduction and commentaries by Stephen Bann) |
reviewed by Christopher Norris (1980)
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Ian Hamilton Finlay (A Celebration of the Grove , Interpolations in Hegel, and Talismans and Signifiers) |
reviewed by Thomas A. Clark (1986)
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Ian Hamilton Finlay (A Variation on Lines by Pope; Heraclitean Variations; and L'Idylle des Cerises, with Michael Harvey) |
reviewed by Thomas A. Clark (1988)
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Ian Hamilton Finlay (A Model of Order: Selected Letters on Poetry and Making, edited by Thomas A. Clark ) |
reviewed by Miles Champion (2009)
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John Finlay (A Prayer to the Father: Poetry and Prose, selected & edited by David Middleton and Mind and Blood: The Collected Poems of John Finlay, edited by David Middleton) |
reviewed by Clive Wilmer (1994)
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Keri Finlayson (Rooms) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2010)
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Stanley Fish (Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1990)
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Allen Fisher (Brixton Fractals, Spanner 25: Allen Fisher Necessary Business, and Unpolished Mirrors ) |
reviewed by Robert Sheppard (1987)
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Allen Fisher (Gravity) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (2005)
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Jessica Fisher (Frail-Craft) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2008)
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Roy Fisher (Poems 1955-1980) |
reviewed by Glen Cavaliero (1981)
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Roy Fisher (Poems 1955-1987) |
reviewed by Dennis Keene (1990)
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Roy Fisher (The Dow Low Drop: New and Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Ra Page (1996)
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Roy Fisher (The Long and the Short of It: Poems 1955-2005) |
reviewed by Matthew Sperling (2006)
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Roy Fisher (Standard Midland) |
reviewed by Peter Riley (2012)
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Roy Fisher (Slakki; New and Neglected Poems) |
reviewed by John Muckle (2018)
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Roy Fisher (The Citizen and the Making of City) |
reviewed by Kyle Lovell (2023)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (Poems 1911-1940, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli ) |
reviewed by Ian McMillan (1982)
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Penelope Fitzgerald (Charlotte Mew and her friends) |
reviewed by Claire Harman (1985)
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Margaret Fitzherbert (The Man Who Was Greenmantle: a Biography of Aubrey Herbert) |
reviewed by Peter Vernon (1985)
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Suzanna Fitzpatrick (Fledglings) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
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Sarah Fletcher |
reviewed by Bebe Ashley (2024)
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Rose Flint (The Blue Horse of Morning) |
reviewed by Tess Lewis (1992)
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Rose Flint (Nekyia) |
reviewed by Kate Keogan (2004)
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Leontia Flynn (These Days) |
reviewed by John Lyon (2005)
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Leontia Flynn (The Radio) |
reviewed by Sasha Dugdale (2018)
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Leontia Flynn (Taking Liberties) |
reviewed by Tara Bergin (2024)
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Tony Flynn (Body Politic) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
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Jennifer Elise Foerster (Bright Raft in the Afterweather) |
reviewed by Yvonne Reddick (2019)
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Kate Foley (A Fox Assisted Cure) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2014)
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Michael Foley (Insomnia in the Afternoon) |
reviewed by Ian Sansom (1994)
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Benjamin Fondane (Cinepoems and Others trans. M. Abidor et al) |
reviewed by Chris Miller (2017)
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Duncan Forbes (Taking Liberties) |
reviewed by Fenella Copplestone (1994)
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John Forbes (New and Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1994)
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John Forbes (Damaged Glamour) |
reviewed by Brian Henry (1999)
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Peter Forbes (Abolishing the Dark) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1985)
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Carolyn Forché (The Country Between Us) |
reviewed by Robert Sheppard (1984)
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Carolyn Forché (Blue Hour) |
reviewed by Judy Kendall (2004)
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Carolyn Forché (The Country Between Us) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2020)
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Carolyn Forché (In the Lateness of the World) |
reviewed by Jennifer Wong (2020)
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Ford Madox Ford ( A Literary Friendship: Correspondence Between Caroline Gordon and Ford Madox Ford, edited by Brita Lindberg-Seyersted) |
reviewed by Sara Haslam (2000)
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Mark Ford (Landlocked) |
reviewed by John Ashbery (1993)
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Mark Ford (The New York Poets: An Anthology, edited by Mark Ford) |
reviewed by Brian Morton (2004)
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Mark Ford ( A Driftwood Altar: Essays and Reviews) |
reviewed by Michael Peverett (2006)
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Mark Ford (Mr and Mrs Stevens and Other Essays and Six Children) |
reviewed by André Naffis-Sahely (2011)
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Mark Ford (Enter, Fleeing) |
reviewed by Julian Stannard (2019)
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Robin Ford (Never Quite Prepared for Light) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2005)
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Nigel Forde (A Map of the Territory) |
reviewed by Philip McCardle (2004)
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Veronica Forrest-Thomson (Collected Poems and Translations) |
reviewed by James Keery (1991)
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Veronica Forrest-Thomson (Collected Poems) |
reviewed by John Muckle (2009)
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Tua Forsstrom (I Studied Once at a Wonderful Faculty) |
reviewed by Gerry McGrath (2006)
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Franco Fortini (Summer is not all: selected poems, translated by Paul Lawton) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
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Roy Foster (On Seamus Heaney) |
reviewed by John McAuliffe (2021)
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Alastair Fowler (From the Domain of Arnheim) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1982)
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Janet Frame (Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Evan Jones (2008)
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Angela France (Lessons in Mallemaroking) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2012)
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Linda France (Red) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
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Claude Francis (Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Lisa Nesselson) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1989)
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Dick Francis (Bolt) |
reviewed by Marghanita Laski (1987)
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Matthew Francis (Blizzard) |
reviewed by James Sale (1997)
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Matthew Francis (Dragons) |
reviewed by Jem Poster (2001)
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Matthew Francis (Whereabouts) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2006)
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Richard Francis (Swansong) |
reviewed by Oliver Harris (1989)
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James Franco (Directing Herbert White) |
reviewed by Adam Crothers (2015)
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Bashabi Fraser (The Homing Bird) |
reviewed by Yogesh Patel (2018)
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Daniel Fraser (Iron Lung) |
reviewed by Rory Waterman (2021)
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G.S. Fraser (Essays on Twentieth-century Poets) |
reviewed by Una Allis (1979)
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G.S. Fraser (A Short History of English Poetry and Poems, ed. Ian Fletcher and John Lucas) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1982)
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Robert Fraser (Night Thoughts: The Surreal Life of the Poet David Gascoyne) |
reviewed by Tom Docherty (2012)
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Stephen Fredman (The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition) |
reviewed by Jeremy Hooker (1995)
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Lewis Freed (T. S. Eliot: The Critic as Philosopher) |
reviewed by David Levy (1981)
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Nicolas Freeling (Cold Iron) |
reviewed by Marghanita Laski (1987)
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Cal Freeman |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
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Philip Freeman (Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet) |
reviewed by Sue Leigh (2018)
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Ulli Freer (Speakbright Leap Passwood) |
reviewed by John Muckle (2004)
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André Frénaud |
reviewed by Anthony Rudolf (1981)
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Anne French (Seven Days on Mykonos) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1994)
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Tom French (Company) |
reviewed by Bebe Ashley (2023)
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Maria Fresta (Mix Don't Blend) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1994)
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Daisy Fried (Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice) |
reviewed by Jason Guriel (2014)
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Erich Fried (100 Poems Without A Country) |
reviewed by Paul Wilkins (1980)
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Nicholas Friedman (Petty Theft) |
reviewed by Ian Pople (2020)
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Raymond Friel (Seeing the River) |
reviewed by Rennie Parker (1995)
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Gerhard Fritsch (Between Evening and Night) |
reviewed by Paul Coates (1982)
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Leah Fritz (Somewhere En Route: Poems 1987-1992) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
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John Frow (Genre) |
reviewed by Olivier Burckhardt (2007)
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Mark Frutkin (The Alchemy of Clouds) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1986)
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Northrop Frye (The Great Code: The Bible and Literature) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1983)
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John Fuller (Lies and Secrets) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (1981)
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John Fuller (The Beautiful Inventions) |
reviewed by Steven Tuohy (1983)
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John Fuller (Waiting for the Music) |
reviewed by Dennis Keene (1983)
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John Fuller (Selected Poems of John Fuller 1954-1982) |
reviewed by Jon Glover (1986)
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John Fuller (The Grey Among the Green) |
reviewed by Tom Phillips (1989)
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John Fuller (The Mechanical Body) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1991)
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John Fuller (Collected Poems) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (1998)
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John Fuller (Now and for a Time) |
reviewed by Andrew McNeillie (2002)
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John Fuller (Ghosts) |
reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (2005)
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John Fuller (Pebble & I) |
reviewed by John Lyon (2011)
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John Fuller (Asleep & Awake) |
reviewed by John Lucas (2021)
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Roy Fuller (The Individual and his Times (a selection of the poetry of Roy Fuller edited by V. J. Lee)) |
reviewed by Dennis Keene (1983)
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Roy Fuller (Consolations) |
reviewed by Eavan Boland (1987)
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Roy Fuller (Image of a Society and The Ruined Boys) |
reviewed by Peter Hazeldine (1988)
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Roy Fuller (Available for Dreams) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (1990)
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Roy Fuller (Last Poems) |
reviewed by John Killick (1993)
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William Fuller (Quorum) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2014)
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Alice Fulton (Felt) |
reviewed by Rachel Elliot (2002)
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Alice Fulton (Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Jennifer L. Bauman (2006)
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Graham Fulton (Knights of the Lower Floors) |
reviewed by David Herd (1995)
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Raymond Furness (Raymond Furness and Malcolm Humble A Companion to Twentieth Century German Literature) |
reviewed by Michael Hamburger (1992)
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Paul Fussell (Abroad: British Literary Travelling between the Wars) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1981)
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