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Reviews, Reviewees - G
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Judy Gahagan (Crossing the No-Man's Land) |
reviewed by Michael Duggan (1999)
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Judy Gahagan (Night Calling) |
reviewed by Rachel Elliot (2003)
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Katherine Gallagher (Passengers to the City) |
reviewed by Ruth Morse (1987)
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Katherine Gallagher (Acres of Light) |
reviewed by Joey Connolly (2017)
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Tess Gallagher (Portable Kisses) |
reviewed by Ra Page (1996)
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Tess Gallagher (Is, Not Is) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2020)
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John Gallas (Flying Carpets over Filbert Street) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1995)
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John Gallas (Mad John's Walk) |
reviewed by Rory Waterman (2021)
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Rhian Galllagher |
reviewed by Rachel Elliot (2003)
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Cathy Galvin (Rough Translation) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)
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Cathy Galvin (Walking the Coventry Ring Road with Lady Godiva) |
reviewed by Rory Waterman (2020)
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James Galvin (Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997) |
reviewed by Brian Henry (1998)
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Mirielle Gansel (and Reiner Kunze, In Time of Need, translated by Edmund Jephcott, with an essay by Ritchie Robertson) |
reviewed by Mark Thwaite (2006)
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Roger Garfitt (Given Ground) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1992)
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Beatrice Garland (The Invention of Fireworks) |
reviewed by Paul McLoughlin (2014)
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Elizabeth Garrett (The Rule of Three) |
reviewed by Keith Silver (1992)
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Elizabeth Garrett (A Two-Part Invention) |
reviewed by Michael Duggan (1999)
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Jean Garrigue (Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Richard Francis (1992)
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Deborah Garrison (A Working Girl Can't Win) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (1998)
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Deborah Garrison (A Working Girl Can't Win) |
reviewed by Kate Price (2000)
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Deborah Garrison (The Second Child) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2008)
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David Gascoyne (Journal 1936-1937) |
reviewed by Alan Young (1982)
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David Gascoyne (Collected Poems 1988) |
reviewed by C.J. Fox (1988)
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David Gascoyne (Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Ian Sansom (1995)
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David Gascoyne (Night Thoughts) |
reviewed by Sam Adams (1996)
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David Gascoyne (Selected Prose 1934-1996) |
reviewed by Sebastian Barker (1999)
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David Gascoyne (New Collected Poems, edited by Roger Scott) |
reviewed by Ian Brinton (2015)
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David Gascoyne (Anniversary Epistle to Allen Ginsberg) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)
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Jonathan Gash (Moneyspender) |
reviewed by Marghanita Laski (1987)
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Lorand Gaspar ('Vivre et écrire', La Nouvelle Revue française, March 1994 and Four Poems, translated from the French by Peter Riley) |
reviewed by Roger Little (1995)
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Lorand Gaspar (The Word at Hand) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1996)
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Simon Gaunt (The Song of Roland and Other Poems of Charlemagne, a new translation by Simon Gaunt and Karen Pratt) |
reviewed by Andrew Hadfield (2017)
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Gary Geddes (Light of Burning Towers: Poems New and Selected) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1992)
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Gary Geddes (The Terracotta Army) |
reviewed by Evan Jones (2008)
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Albert Gelpi (American Poetry after Modernism: The Power of the Word) |
reviewed by Gareth Reeves (2015)
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Gérard Genette (Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1998)
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David Gentleman (London, You're Beautiful: An Artist's Year) |
reviewed by Judith Chernaik (2012)
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Strickland Geoffrey (Structuralism or Criticism? Thoughts on How We Read) |
reviewed by David J. Levy (1982)
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Dai George (The Claims Office) |
reviewed by Josh Hinton (2015)
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Karen Gershon (My Daughters, My Sisters) |
reviewed by Blake Morrison (1978)
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Azita Ghahreman (Negative of a Group Photograph) |
reviewed by Jamie Osborn (2020)
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Waguih Ghali (Beer in the Snooker Club) |
reviewed by Grahame Smith (1989)
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Reginald Gibbons (The Ruined Motel) |
reviewed by Michael Hofmann (1983)
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Reginald Gibbons (How Poems Think) |
reviewed by Evan Jones (2017)
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Reginald Gibbons (How Poems Think) |
reviewed by Edmund Prestwich (2020)
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Henry Gifford (Poetry in a divided world) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1987)
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Henry Gifford (Poetry in a Divided World) |
reviewed by Lesley Chamberlain (1988)
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Terry Gifford (Ted Hughes: A Critical Study - with Neil Roberts) |
reviewed by Elizabeth Waltheer (1982)
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Mario Martín Gijón (Sur(rendering)) |
reviewed by Ian Seed (2021)
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Geoff Gilbert (Hold! West) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
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Amir Gilboa (The Light of Lost Suns: Selected Poems, translated by Shirley Kaufman) |
reviewed by George Buchanan (1981)
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Pamela Gillilan (All Steel Traveller. New and Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Steven Blyth (1995)
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Natalia Ginzburg (The Little Virtues) |
reviewed by Tim Parks (1986)
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Dana Gioia (The Gods of Winter) |
reviewed by Richard Francis (1991)
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Dana Gioia (Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American Culture) |
reviewed by Richard Francis (1993)
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Dana Gioia (Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture) |
reviewed by J.R. Hellier (1994)
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Chrissie Gittins (Armature) |
reviewed by Judy Kendall (2004)
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Peter Gizzi (Some Values of Landscape and Weather) |
reviewed by Peter Riley (2004)
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Peter Gizzi (The Outernationale) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2008)
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Peter Gizzi (Threshold Songs) |
reviewed by Stephen Ross (2012)
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Peter Gizzi (In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems 1987â2011) |
reviewed by Ben Hickman (2014)
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Peter Gizzi (Sky Burial) |
reviewed by Ben Hickman (2020)
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Peter Gizzi (Fierce Elegy) |
reviewed by Declan Ryan (2024)
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Jon Glover (Our Photographs) |
reviewed by Paul McLoughlin (1987)
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Jon Glover (To the Niagara Frontier) |
reviewed by Keith Silver (1995)
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Michael Glover (Only So Much ) |
reviewed by Rory Waterman (2012)
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Louise Glück (The House on Marshland ) |
reviewed by Andrew Waterman (1978)
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Louise Glück (The Wild Iris) |
reviewed by Mark Doty (1996)
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Louise Glück (Meadowlands) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (1997)
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Louise Glück (Vita Nova) |
reviewed by Ian Tromp (2000)
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Louise Glück (Ulriche Draesner translates Louise Glück's Averno into German) |
reviewed by Evelyn Schlag (2008)
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Louise Glück (A Village Life) |
reviewed by Ian Tromp (2012)
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Louise Glück (Faithful and Virtuous Night) |
reviewed by Valerie Duff-Strautmann (2015)
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Louise Glück (American Originality) |
reviewed by Valerie Duff-Strautmann (2021)
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Louise Glück (Marigold and Rose) |
reviewed by Paul Franz (2023)
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Michael Gnarowski |
reviewed by Evan Jones (2017)
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Guntars Godins (Flying Blind, translated by Eugene O'Connell) |
reviewed by Carmen Bugan (2006)
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J.W. von Goethe (Faust, Part One, translated by David Luke) |
reviewed by Idris Parry (1989)
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John Gohorry (The Coast of Bohemia) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)
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John Gohorry (Talk into the Late Evening) |
reviewed by Keith Silver (1993)
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Albert Goldbarth (Saving Lives and Troubled Lovers in History) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2002)
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Jonathan Goldberg (Voice Terminal Echo. Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts) |
reviewed by Lynne Hancock and Lyndal Roper (1989)
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William Golding (The Hot Gates, A Moving Target, The Paper Men) |
reviewed by Mark Thompson (1985)
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Kenneth Goldsmith (Against Translation) |
reviewed by Evan Jones (2018)
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R. James Goldstein (The English Lyric Tradition: Reading Poetic Masterpieces of the Middle Ages and Renaissance) |
reviewed by Andrew Hadfield (2017)
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Peter Goldsworthy (This Goes WithThat: Selected Poems 1970-1990) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1993)
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George Gömöri (The Colonnade of Teeth: Modern Hungarian Poetry) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1997)
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Luis de Góngora (Selected Poems of Luis de Góngora: A Bilingual Edition, edited and translated by John Dent-Young and The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance, translated by Edith Grossman) |
reviewed by Andrew Hadfield (2008)
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Fernande Gontier (Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Lisa Nesselson) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1989)
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John Goodby (The Poetry of Dylan Thomas: Under the Spelling Wall ) |
reviewed by Ian Brinton (2014)
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Lorna Goodison (Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Vicki Bertram (2007)
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Natalya Gorbanevskaya (Selected Poems, trans by Daniel Weissbort) |
reviewed by Gerry McGrath (2012)
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Caroline Gordon ( 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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Grey Gowrie (The Right Place) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
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Hermann Grab (The Town Park and other stories, translated by Quintin Hoare) |
reviewed by Harry Guest (1989)
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Desmond Graham (A Rumtopf For Summer) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1991)
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Desmond Graham (The Marching Bands) |
reviewed by Ra Page (1996)
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Desmond Graham (After Shakespeare) |
reviewed by John Redmond (2002)
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Desmond Graham (The Green Parakeet) |
reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (2010)
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Jorie Graham (Region of Unlikeness) |
reviewed by Calvin Bedient (1994)
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Jorie Graham (Materialism) |
reviewed by Belle Randall (1995)
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Jorie Graham (The Errancy) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (1997)
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Jorie Graham (The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994) | reviewed by Justin Quinn (1997) |
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Jorie Graham (Overlord) |
reviewed by Andrew Rudd (2006)
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Jorie Graham (Runaway) |
reviewed by Maitreyabandhu (2021)
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W.S. Graham (Collected Poems) |
reviewed by Michael Schmidt (1980)
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W.S. Graham (Aimed at Nobody: Poems from Notebooks) |
reviewed by Brian Jones (1993)
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W.S. Graham (Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Matthew Francis (1996)
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W.S. Graham (New Collected Poems, edited by Matthew Francis, with a preface by Douglas Dunn) | reviewed by Richard Price (2004) |
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W.S. Graham (Speaking Towards You, edited by Ralph Pite and Hester Jones) |
reviewed by Peter Riley (2004)
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Lee Grandjean (Their Silence a Language) |
reviewed by Peter Carpenter (1996)
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Dominique Grandmont (Images au Miroir/Mirror Images ) |
reviewed by Lawrence Sail (1980)
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K.W. Gransden (The Last Picnic) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)
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Günter Grass (Selected Poems ) |
reviewed by Michael Cayley (1981)
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Ida Affleck Graves (A Kind Husband) |
reviewed by Loraine Fletcher (1995)
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Robert Graves (Poems selected by Robert Graves and Anthony Thwaite) |
reviewed by Nick Rhodes (1979)
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Robert Graves (Collected Writings on Poetry, edited by Paul O'Prey) |
reviewed by Patrick McGuinness (1995)
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Alisdair Gray (Collected Verses) |
reviewed by Andrew Walls (2011)
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Kathryn Gray (The Never-Never) |
reviewed by John Lyon (2005)
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Kathryn Gray (Flowers) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)
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Kathryn Gray (Hollywood or Home) |
reviewed by Sarah-Clare Conlon (2024)
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Robert Gray (Lineations) |
reviewed by Michael Duggan (1999)
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Robert Gray (Grass Script: Selected Earlier Poems and Lineations) |
reviewed by Ian Pople (2001)
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Robert Greacen (Collected Poems 1944-1994 and Even Without Irene. An Autobiography) |
reviewed by Charles Hobday (1996)
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Paul Green (A Comparative Daimon) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1991)
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Stephen Greenblatt (The Swerve: How The Renaissance Began) |
reviewed by Andrew Hadfield (2012)
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Jeffrey Greene (American Spirituals) |
reviewed by Kate Price (1999)
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Richard Greene (Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius) |
reviewed by Ross Cogan (2011)
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John Greening (The Tutankhamun Variations) |
reviewed by Keith Silver (1993)
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John Greening (To the War Poets) |
reviewed by Valerie Duff-Strautmann (2014)
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John Greening (Threading A Dream: A Poet on the Nile) |
reviewed by Andrew Hadfield (2018)
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John Greening (The Silence) |
reviewed by Kevin Gardner (2019)
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John Greening (Vapour Trails: Reviews and Essays on Poetry) |
reviewed by Martin Caseley (2021)
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Lavinia Greenlaw (Night Photograph) |
reviewed by Keith Silver (1994)
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Lavinia Greenlaw (Minsk) |
reviewed by Oliver Dennis (2004)
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Lavinia Greenlaw (A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde) |
reviewed by Andrew Hadfield (2015)
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Linda Gregerson (Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, 1976â2014) |
reviewed by Evan Jones (2016)
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Ian Gregor (Mark Kinkead-Weekes and Ian Gregor, William Golding: A Critical Study ) |
reviewed by Mark Thompson (1985)
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Andrew Greig (As Though We Were Flying) |
reviewed by Okechukwu Nzelu (2012)
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Kate Grenville (Bearded Ladies) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1987)
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C.M. Grieve (Annals of the Five Senses, introduction by Alan Bold) |
reviewed by Brian Morton (1984)
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Jasper Griffin (Virgil) |
reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1987)
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Bill Griffiths (A Tract against the Giants) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1990)
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Bill Griffiths (Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80), edited by Alan Halsey and Ken Edwards ) |
reviewed by John Muckle (2010)
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Bill Griffiths (Collected Poems and Sequences 1981â91) |
reviewed by John Muckle (2014)
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Eric Griffiths (The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry) |
reviewed by Peter Robinson (1990)
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Jane Griffiths (A Grip on Thin Air) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (2001)
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Jane Griffiths (Icarus on Earth) |
reviewed by Peter McDonald (2006)
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Jane Griffiths (Silent in Finisterre) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)
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Kate Griffiths (The Attitudes) |
reviewed by Jazmine Linklater (2022)
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Paul Griffiths (The Tilted Cup: Noh Stories) | reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2014) |
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Steve Griffiths (Anglesey Material) |
reviewed by John Clarke (1981)
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Geoffrey Grigson (History of Him) |
reviewed by Jem Poster (1981)
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Geoffrey Grigson (Blessings, Kicks and Curses: A Critical Collection; Collected Poems 1963-1980; and The Private Art: A Poetry Note-Book) |
reviewed by Jem Poster (1983)
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Anne Grimes (Alice's Cat) |
reviewed by James McGrath (2005)
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Vona Groarke (Shale) |
reviewed by Matthew Francis (1995)
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Vona Groarke (Other People's Houses) |
reviewed by Sinéad Morrissey (2000)
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Vona Groarke (Flight) |
reviewed by Michael A. Kinsella (2002)
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Vona Groarke (Juniper Street) |
reviewed by Heather Clark (2006)
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Vona Groarke |
reviewed by John Redmond (2009)
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Vona Groarke (Link: Poet and World) |
reviewed by Kathryn Maris (2022)
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Vona Groarke (Woman of Winter) |
reviewed by Gwyneth Lewis (2024)
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Emily Grosholz (The Stars of Earth) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2019)
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John Gross (Oxford Book of Aphorisms) |
reviewed by Idris Parry (1983)
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Philip Gross (Familiars and The Ice Factory) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1985)
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Philip Gross (Cat's Whisker) |
reviewed by Lawrence Sail (1988)
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Philip Gross (The Air Mines of Mistila) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1989)
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Philip Gross (The Son of the Duke of Nowhere ) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1991)
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Philip Gross (J.D.) |
reviewed by Keith Silver (1995)
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Philip Gross (The Egg of Zero) |
reviewed by Roger Caldwell (2006)
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Philip Gross (Love Songs of Carbon) |
reviewed by Edmund Prestwich (2016)
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David Grubb (It Comes With A Bit of Song) |
reviewed by Nick Telfer (2008)
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David H.W. Grubb (The Elephant in the Room) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2005)
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Eve Grubin (The House of Our First Loving) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
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Durs Grünbein |
reviewed by André Naffis-Sahely (2010)
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Susan Gubernat (The Zoo at Night) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2019)
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Suzanne Guerlac (Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre; Valéry, Breton) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1998)
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Harry Guest (Elegies) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)
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Harry Guest (Lost and Found) |
reviewed by Chris McCully (1985)
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Harry Guest (Last Harvest) |
reviewed by Ian Pople (2021)
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Charles Gullans (Imperfect Correspondances and Many Houses) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)
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Hjalmar Gullberg (Gentleman, Single, Refined, tr. Judith Moffett ) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)
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Daniel Gunn (Psychoanalysis and Fiction: An Exploration of Literary and Psychoanalytic Borders) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1990)
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Kirsty Gunn (Imagined Spaces) |
reviewed by Iain Bamforth (2021)
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Thom Gunn (Jack Straw's Castle, The Missed Beat, and To the Air) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (1978)
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Thom Gunn (Selected Poems 1950-1975) | reviewed by Dick Davis (1980) |
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Thom Gunn (The Occasions of Poetry: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography and The Passages of Joy) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (1983)
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Thom Gunn (The Man with Night Sweats) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (1992)
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Thom Gunn (Collected Poems) |
reviewed by Eavan Boland (1993)
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Thom Gunn (Boss Cupid) |
reviewed by Greg Woods (2000)
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Grass Günter (Die Rättin) |
reviewed by Michael Hamburger (1987)
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Ivor Gurney (Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney, edited and introduced by P. J. Kavanagh) |
reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1983)
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Ivor Gurney (Stars in a Dark Night: The Letters of Ivor Gurney to the Chapman Family, edited by Anthony Boden, with a Foreword by Michael Hurd) |
reviewed by R.K.R. Thornton (1987)
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Ivor Gurney (The Piano Music of Ivor Gurney and Edward Elgar, performed by Alan Gravill) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1992)
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Ivor Gurney (Poems) |
reviewed by Roderic Dunnett (1997)
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Ivor Gurney (Seven Sappho Songs, words by William Bliss Carman) |
reviewed by Roderic Dunnett (2001)
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John Gurney (Wheal Zion) |
reviewed by Michael Vince (1981)
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Ralph Gustafson (The Moment Is All: Selected Poems 1944-83) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1987)
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Lars Gustafsson (Selected Poems, translated by John Irons) |
reviewed by Ross Cogan (2016)
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Dafydd ap Gwilym (A Selection of Poems, edited by Rachel Bromwich) |
reviewed by Sam Adams (1985)
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