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PN Review 214

Volume 40 Number 2 November - December 2013

Cover image: John Pule and Gregory O'Brien, Sailing to Raoul, 2012,
etching and aquatint, 30 × 20 cm. From the exhibition Hands to Bathe – Imagining a Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary, Navy Museum, Auckland, New Zealand.

Inside Front Cover

Pictures from a Library 11:
'I have lived. Here is the proof': A Portrait of a Living Archive Stella Halkyard

Editorial

News & Notes

Letters from Iain Bamforth, Denis Rixson, Silas Gunn

Reports

Keys to the Song of Just Nothing Vahni Capildeo

Taylor of Sevenoaks Neil Powell

Astropoetics from the Snug Duncan MacKay

Soupault/Gâteau Mark Dow

Letter from Wales Sam Adams

A Very Common Predicament, I Dare Say Frank Kuppner

Poems

'On Not Picking Mushrooms with a Famous Writer' and Other Poems Tara Bergin

'Rational Dress' and Other Poems Caoilinn Hughes

Two Poems Jeri Onitskansky

Three Uncollected Poems Lynette Roberts

Two Poems Tim Liardet

'Tap Dogs' Music' and Other Poems Les Murray

Two Poems Ned Denny

Glesga Prayer Molly Vogel

Two Poems Tom Docherty

For Dominic and Roger Crouch Okechukwu Nzelu

Personajes: Poems after Remedios Varo Lesley Saunders

What Does it Mean? Shanta Acharya

'Prize-Giving' and Other Poems Ian Seed

'Babylon V' and Other Poems Adam Czerniawski

'Song for Ghosts and the Lost' and Other Poems translated by Gregg Ellis Philippe Soupault

'Eucalyptus' and Other Poems John F. Deane

Articles

Out of the Badlands Iain Sinclair

The Poet's Total Involvement: Denise Levertov Eavan Boland

Outside the Imaginary Museum: Lynette Roberts and Keidrych Rhys Charles Mundye

Edmund Wilson and the Poets Tony Roberts

Letter to Nikita Khrushchev, translated by Yvonne Green and Sergey Makarov Vasily Grossman

Keeping it Concrete: Edwin Morgan in the Sixties James McGonigal

Catchwords 22 Iain Bamforth

Philippe Soupault in Conversation, translated by Gregg Ellis Bernard Morlino

A Millennial Decade: John F. Deane's Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill Thomas Dillon Redshaw

Reviews

on John Drury's Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert Mark Nicholls

on Neil Powell's Benjamin Britten: A Life for Music John Matthias

on Mark Thompson's Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš Chris Miller

on Peter McDonald's Sound Intentions John McAuliffe

on Andrew Karpati Kennedy's Chance Survivor Yudit Kiss

on Claude Royet-Journoud John Taylor

on Amy Sara Carroll Adam Crothers

on Susan Wheeler David C. Ward

on Helen Ivory James Sutherland-Smith

on Owen Sheers Ross Cogan

on Nick Laird, David Harsent and Derek Mahon Joey Connolly

on Robert Stark's Ezra Pound's Early Verse and Lyric Tradition Andrew Latimer

Inside Back Cover

Vestiges 5: John Cleveland Adam Crothers

PN Review 214

Volume 40 Number 2 November - December 2013

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	PN Review 214 Volume 40 Number 2 November - December 2013 Cover image: John Pule and Gregory O'Brien, Sailing to Raoul, 2012, etching and aquatint, 30 × 20 cm. From the exhibition Hands to Bathe – Imagining a Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary, Navy Museum, Auckland, New Zealand. Inside Front Cover Pictures from a Library 11: 'I have lived. Here is the proof': A Portrait of a Living Archive Stella Halkyard Editorial News & Notes Letters from Iain Bamforth, Denis Rixson, Silas Gunn Reports Keys to the Song of Just Nothing Vahni Capildeo Taylor of Sevenoaks Neil Powell Astropoetics from the Snug Duncan MacKay Soupault/Gâteau Mark Dow Letter from Wales Sam Adams A Very Common Predicament, I Dare Say Frank Kuppner Poems 'On Not Picking Mushrooms with a Famous Writer' and Other Poems Tara Bergin 'Rational Dress' and Other Poems Caoilinn Hughes Two Poems Jeri Onitskansky Three Uncollected Poems Lynette Roberts Two Poems Tim Liardet 'Tap Dogs' Music' and Other Poems Les Murray Two Poems Ned Denny Glesga Prayer Molly Vogel Two Poems Tom Docherty For Dominic and Roger Crouch Okechukwu Nzelu Personajes: Poems after Remedios Varo Lesley Saunders What Does it Mean? Shanta Acharya 'Prize-Giving' and Other Poems Ian Seed 'Babylon V' and Other Poems Adam Czerniawski 'Song for Ghosts and the Lost' and Other Poems translated by Gregg Ellis Philippe Soupault 'Eucalyptus' and Other Poems John F. Deane Articles Out of the Badlands Iain Sinclair The Poet's Total Involvement: Denise Levertov Eavan Boland Outside the Imaginary Museum: Lynette Roberts and Keidrych Rhys Charles Mundye Edmund Wilson and the Poets Tony Roberts Letter to Nikita Khrushchev, translated by Yvonne Green and Sergey Makarov Vasily Grossman Keeping it Concrete: Edwin Morgan in the Sixties James McGonigal Catchwords 22 Iain Bamforth Philippe Soupault in Conversation, translated by Gregg Ellis Bernard Morlino A Millennial Decade: John F. Deane's Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill Thomas Dillon Redshaw Reviews on John Drury's Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert Mark Nicholls on Neil Powell's Benjamin Britten: A Life for Music John Matthias on Mark Thompson's Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš Chris Miller on Peter McDonald's Sound Intentions John McAuliffe on Andrew Karpati Kennedy's Chance Survivor Yudit Kiss on Claude Royet-Journoud John Taylor on Amy Sara Carroll Adam Crothers on Susan Wheeler David C. Ward on Helen Ivory James Sutherland-Smith on Owen Sheers Ross Cogan on Nick Laird, David Harsent and Derek Mahon Joey Connolly on Robert Stark's Ezra Pound's Early Verse and Lyric Tradition Andrew Latimer Inside Back Cover Vestiges 5: John Cleveland Adam Crothers PN Review 214 Volume 40 Number 2 November - December 2013
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