This issue crosses Wales, beginning in the Lleyn Peninsula with Round and Round, John Fuller's first major poem to be published since his 1995 collection, Stones and Fires, won the Forward Prize. Taking in Cork, Rome and Milan, the issue ends in border country, with Shrewsbury in flood on the eightieth anniversary of Wilfred Owen's leaving.
In city streets the dusty elms
Are pollarded like amputees;
The dying sunset overwhelms
The window-panes with prodigies
Of heavenly telegraphese;
Perched on a saddle like a skull,
A small boy bucks his bicycle.
- John Fuller, from Round and Round
Bernard O'Donoghue talks about his life, Ireland and the medieval:
...I wanted to put across the idea that people live in the same world in the country as they do in towns. To show the same truths working out with the same degree of sophistication...
Three poets lost in the Italian city: Umberto Fiori, Andrea Gibellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini
N. S. Thompson writes on the American New Formalist movement
New poems by Elizabeth Barrett, M. Rukmini Callimachi, Simon Carnell, John Chandler, Alistair Elliot, Giles Goodland, Jennifer L. Grigg, W. D. Jackson, Ian Pople, Peter Scupham, Merryn Williams
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