Interview with Simon Armitage.

Feature on Modern French Poetry: Graham Nelson on "an elephant into a cage designed for a fox", anthologies in translation:

Poetry in the authentic French style asks a lot of us, with its great blocks of prose, its off-putting absence of narrative or realism, its generic landscapes, its self-indulgence, its tendency to kick the female body around, its aspiration to be about something...

Michael G. Kelly on more French views.

Translation: Jamie McKendrick's version of Rilke's "The Parrot House"; Toby Garfitt on the felicity of the young Eluard.

Reviews: Tim Kendall on Ted Hughes:

The problem with Birthday Letters is its machinery, deafeningly cranked into gear in too many of these poems. Never is the reader allowed to forget the inescapability of fate. Portents of doom fight for elbow room throughout the collection...

Robert Macfarlane on N. S. Thompson's "The Home Front".