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Hans Christoph Bach (The Wedding at Port-au-Prince, translated from the German by Ralph Manheim) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1989)
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Thérèse Bachand (luce a cavallo) |
reviewed by John Muckle (2010)
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Paul Bachelor (The Sinking Road) |
reviewed by Henry King (2009)
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June Badeni (The Slender Tree, a life of Alice Meynell) |
reviewed by David Jesson-Dibley (1981)
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Rowland Bagnall (A Few Interiors) |
reviewed by Anthony Lawrence (2020)
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Elisaveta Bagryana (Penelope of the Twentieth Century: selected poems, translated by Brenda Walker) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1994)
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Charles Bainbridge (fifty fifty, edited by Charles Bainbridge, Tania Earnshaw, Selima Hill, Mimi Khalvati, Stephen Knight, Simon Smith) |
reviewed by Judy Kendall (2004)
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István Baka (Selected Poems. Translated by Peter Zollman and others) |
reviewed by Chris Miller (2005)
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David Baker (Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets and Poems) |
reviewed by David Spittle (2015)
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Kenneth Baker (Unauthorized Versions: Poems and their Parodies, edited by Kenneth Baker) |
reviewed by C.J. Fox (1991)
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Kenneth Baker (The Faber Book of Landscape Poetry, edited by Kenneth Baker) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (2001)
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Tony Baker (Three Part Invention & other scored occasions) |
reviewed by John Muckle (2004)
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Peter Bakowski (The heart at 3 a.m.) |
reviewed by Brian Henry (1999)
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John Balaban (Locusts at the Edge of Summer) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (1998)
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Peter Balakian (Ozone Journal and Vise and Shadow: Essays on the lyric imagination, poetry, art, and culture) |
reviewed by Jamie Osborn (2016)
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Chris Baldick (The Social Mission of English Criticism 1848-1932) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1985)
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Michael Baldwin (King Horn) |
reviewed by Steven Tuohy (1984)
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Iain Bamforth (Open Workings) |
reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (1998)
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Iain Bamforth (Scattered Limbs) |
reviewed by Kirsty Gunn (2021)
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Manuel Bandeira (Recife, translated by Eddie Flintoff ) |
reviewed by Bill Affleck (1986)
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Ari Banias (Anybody) | reviewed by David C. Ward (2019) |
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Stephen Bann (The True Vine: On Visual Representation and the Western Tradition ) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1991)
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Gavin Bantock (Dragons) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1981)
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Gavin Bantock (SeaManShip) |
reviewed by Edward Picot (2004)
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Amiri Baraka (The Collected Letters and Edward Dorn and Leroy Lucas, The Shoshoneans) |
reviewed by Alex Latter (2014)
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Yevgeny Baratynsky (Half-light & Other Poems bilingual edition) |
reviewed by Boris Dralyuk (2016)
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Ros Barber (How Things Are On Thursday) |
reviewed by Kate Keogan (2006)
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Ros Barber (Material) |
reviewed by Ben Wilkinson (2010)
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Mourid Barghouti (Midnight and Other Poems) |
reviewed by Marius Kociejowski (2010)
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George Barker (Dialogues etc.) |
reviewed by David Wright (1977)
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George Barker (Street Ballads) |
reviewed by David Wright (1993)
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George Barker (ROBERT FRASER The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker) |
reviewed by Julia Blackburn (2002)
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Howard Barker |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1991)
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Nicholas Barker (Visible Voices) |
reviewed by Grant Shipcott (2016)
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Sebastian Barker (On the Rocks) |
reviewed by Blake Morrison (1979)
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Sebastian Barker (The Dream of Intelligence) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
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Toby Barlow (Sharp Teeth) |
reviewed by Sidney Hart (2008)
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Mary Barnard (Assault on Mount Helion, a Literary Memoir) |
reviewed by Peter Levi (1985)
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Robert Barnard (Bodies) |
reviewed by Marghanita Laski (1987)
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Anthony Barnett (Fear and Misadventure; Mud Settles) |
reviewed by David Trotter (1979)
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Anthony Barnett (North North, I Said, No, Wait a Minute, South, Oh, I don't Know (148 Political Poems)) |
reviewed by Peter Riley (1987)
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Anthony Barnett (The Resting Bell) |
reviewed by Peter Riley (1988)
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Anthony Barnett (Little Stars and Straw Breasts; Michael Grant, ed., The Poetry of Anthony Barnett) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1993)
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Anthony Barnett (Little Stars and Straw Beasts: new poems and The Poetry of Anthony Barnett edited by Michael Grant) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1994)
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Anthony Barnett (Carp and Rubato) |
reviewed by Michael Grant (1995)
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Anthony Barnett (Antonyms & Others) |
reviewed by Ian Brinton (2012)
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Anthony Barnett (Poems & and Translations) |
reviewed by Timothy Harris (2013)
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Anthony Barnett (Lithos) |
reviewed by Ian Pople (2018)
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John Barnie (Sea Lilies: Selected Poems 1984 - 2003) |
reviewed by Peter Maber (2007)
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Willis Barnstone (Mexico in My Heart: New & Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Evan Jones (2016)
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Alex Barr (Letting in the Carnival) |
reviewed by C.B. McCully (1985)
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Simon Barraclough (Los Alamos Mon Amour) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2009)
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John Barrie (No Hiding Place - Essays on the New Nature and Poetry) |
reviewed by Roger Caldwell (1997)
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Peter Barry (Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court) |
reviewed by Matthew Francis (2007)
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Sebastian Barry (The Water Colourist) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1984)
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Sebastian Barry (The Engine of Owl-Light) |
reviewed by Francis Doherty (1989)
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Roland Barthes (A Lover's Discourse: fragments, translated by Richard Howard) |
reviewed by Christopher Norris (1980)
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Brian Bartlett (Wanting the Day: Selected Poems) |
reviewed by James McGrath (2005)
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Elizabeth Bartlett (A Lifetime of Dying) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1981)
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Elizabeth Bartlett (Strange Territory) |
reviewed by Chris McCully (1985)
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Elizabeth Bartlett (Look, No Face) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1992)
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Lee Bartlett (Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin: Selected Letters, edited by Lee Bartlett) |
reviewed by Richard Francis (1992)
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Jonathan Bate (The Song of the Earth) |
reviewed by Lawrence Coupe (2000)
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Jonathan Bate (Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life) |
reviewed by David Troupes (2016)
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Jeannine Baude (C'était un paysage, Océan, Concerto pour une roche) |
reviewed by Roger Little (1996)
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Charles Baudelaire (Complete Poems) |
reviewed by Michael Duggan (1999)
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Charles Baudelaire (Paris Blues: The Poems in Prose with La Fanfarlo, bilingual edition edited, introduced and translated by Francis Scarfe and The Complete Verse, bilingual edition edited, introduced and with plain prose translations by Francis Scarfe ) |
reviewed by John Taylor (2013)
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Jean Baudrillard (Cool Memories 1980-1985) |
reviewed by Robert Julian (1988)
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James K. Baxter (Selected Poems, edited and introduction by Paul Millar) |
reviewed by John Dennison (2010)
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Taner Baybars (Narcissus in a Dry Pool) |
reviewed by Matt Simpson (1980)
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Taner Baybars (Pregnant Shadows) |
reviewed by Ian McMillan (1982)
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John Bayley (Shakespeare and Tragedy) |
reviewed by Richard Swigg (1982)
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John Bayley (Housman's Poems) |
reviewed by Gregory Woods (1994)
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Dan Beachy-Quick (Of Silence and Song) |
reviewed by Valerie Duff (2018)
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Fred Beake (The Whiteness of Her Becoming) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
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Victoria Bean (Edited by Chris McCabe and Victoria Bean The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century) |
reviewed by Oliver Dixon (2016)
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Bruce Beasley (Summer Mystagogia) |
reviewed by Brian Henry (1998)
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Roderick Beaton (George Seferis) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1992)
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Simone de Beauvoir (Alice Schwarzer, Simone de Beauvoir Today: Conversations 1972-78, translated by Marianne Howarth ) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1985)
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Bruce Beaver (As it was) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1986)
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Zeina Hashem Beck (There Was and How Much There Was) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)
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Elaine Beckett (Faber New Poets) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
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Samuel Beckett (For to End Yet Again & Other Fizzles) |
reviewed by Edward Neill (1979)
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Samuel Beckett (Company) |
reviewed by Victoria Rothschild (1981)
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Samuel Beckett (Dream of Fair to Middling Women) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
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Samuel Beckett (The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1941-1956 [second volume of a projected four], edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck ) |
reviewed by W.S. Milne (2012)
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Madeleine Beckman (Hyacinths from the Wreckage) |
reviewed by Elizabeth Davies (2015)
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Jack Beeching (Images au Miroir/Mirror Images ) |
reviewed by Lawrence Sail (1980)
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Jack Beeching (The Invention of Love) |
reviewed by Charles Hobday (1997)
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Patricia Beer (Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Lawrence Sail (1980)
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Patricia Beer (Friend of Heraclitus) |
reviewed by Keith Silver (1993)
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Patricia Beer (Autumn) |
reviewed by Vona Groarke (1998)
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Martin Bell (Complete Poems, edited by Peter Porter) |
reviewed by Alan Munton (1990)
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Frances Bellerby (The First-Known) |
reviewed by David Wright (1978)
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Catherine Belsey (Critical Practice) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1983)
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Andrey Bely (The Dramatic Symphony, translated by Roger and Angela Keys, and The Forms of Art, translated by John Elsworth) |
reviewed by Avril Pyman (1987)
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Andrey Bely (Selected Essays, edited, translated and with an introduction by Stephen Cassedy) |
reviewed by Avril Pyman (1987)
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Chris Bendon (Constructions) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1992)
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J.A.W. Bennet (Poetry of the Passion - Studies in twelve centuries of English verse) |
reviewed by Andrew Louth (1984)
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Peter Bennet (Sky-Riding) |
reviewed by Chris McCully (1985)
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Bonnie A. Bennett (Donatello) |
reviewed by George Steiner (1985)
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Tony Bennett (Outside Literature) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1991)
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Connie Bensley (Moving In) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1985)
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Connie Bensley (Choosing To Be A Swan) |
reviewed by Rennie Parker (1995)
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Fiona Benson (Bright Travellers) |
reviewed by Yvonne Reddick (2016)
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Fiona Benson (Ephemeron) |
reviewed by Rebecca Hurst (2023)
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Asa Benveniste (Throw Out the Life Line, Lay Out the Corse: Poems 1965-1985) |
reviewed by Robert Sheppard (1985)
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Stephen Berg (With Akhmatova at the Black Gates) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)
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Stephen Berg (Oblivion) |
reviewed by Justin Quinn (1997)
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H.C. ten Berge (The White Shaman, edited by Theo Hermans, translated by various hands) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
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Bernard Bergonzi (Exploding English: Criticism, Theory, Culture) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1990)
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Bernard Bergonzi (War Poets and Other Subjects) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (2000)
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Anne Berkeley (The Men from Praga) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2011)
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Sara Berkeley (Home Movie Nights) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
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David Berman (Actual Air) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2000)
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April Bernard (Swan Electric) |
reviewed by Julia Forster (2004)
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Thomas Bernhard (In Hora Mortis / Under the Iron of the Moon, translated by James Reidel) |
reviewed by Edmund Hardy (2006)
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Charles Bernstein (Girly Man) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2007)
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Charles Bernstein (All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Richard Kostelanetz (2011)
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Gina Berriault (The Descent) |
reviewed by Mark Thompson (1988)
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Ted Berrigan (The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, edited by Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan) |
reviewed by Daniel Kane (2006)
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Ted Berrigan (The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan edited by Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan) |
reviewed by Yasmine Shamma (2011)
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Emily Berry (Dear Boy) |
reviewed by Lucy Sheerman (2014)
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Emily Berry (Stranger Baby) |
reviewed by Andrew Hadfield (2017)
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James Berry (Windrush Songs) |
reviewed by Gavin Hudson (2007)
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Liz Berry (The patron saint of schoolgirls) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2012)
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Wendell Berry (The landscape of harmony) |
reviewed by Kenneth Cox (1989)
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Wendell Berry (The Gift of Gravity: Selected Poems 1968-2000) |
reviewed by Grevel Lindop (2004)
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Wendell Berry (The Peace of Wild Things) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2018)
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Attilio Bertolucci (Selected Poems, bilingual edition, translated by Charles Tomlinson) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1994)
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Patrick Besson (Dara, translated by Nicole Irving ) |
reviewed by Harry Guest (1988)
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Crispin Best (Faber New Poets) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
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John Betjeman (Uncollected Poems) |
reviewed by Ian McMillan (1983)
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A.C. Bevan (Field Trips in the Anthropocene) |
reviewed by Rory Waterman (2020)
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Jill Bialosky (The End of Desire) |
reviewed by Brian Henry (1998)
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Frank Bidart (The Book of the Body) |
reviewed by David Holloway (1981)
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Frank Bidart (Desire) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (1998)
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Ruth Bidgood (The Print of Miracle) |
reviewed by Jeremy Hooker (1979)
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Ruth Bidgood (Lighting Candles) |
reviewed by Michael Bird (1984)
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Ruth Bidgood (Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Keith Silver (1993)
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Ruth Bidgood (The Fluent Moment) |
reviewed by Caroline Sylge (1997)
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Ruth Bidgood (Time Being) |
reviewed by Henry King (2010)
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Wolf Bierman (Poems and Ballads, translated by Steve Gooch) |
reviewed by Michael Hamburger (1979)
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Robert Billings (The Revels) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1987)
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Kate Bingham (Archway Sonnets) |
reviewed by Paul McLoughlin (2021)
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Caroline Bird (The Hat-Stand Union) |
reviewed by Maya Catherine Popa (2014)
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Julia Bird (Hannah and the Monk) |
reviewed by Henry King (2010)
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Rebecca Bird (Shrinking Ultraviolet) |
reviewed by Joe Carrick-Varty (2018)
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John Birtwhistle (Tidal Models) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1981)
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Elizabeth Bishop (The Collected Prose, edited by Robert Giroux) |
reviewed by Peter Levi (1985)
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Neil Bissoondath (Digging up the Mountains) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1988)
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Neil Bissoondath (Digging up the Mountains) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1989)
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David Black (Gravitations) |
reviewed by A. P. Swarbrick (1980)
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Thomas Blackburn (Post Mortem and Selected Poems) |
reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1979)
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Thomas Blackburn (Bread for the Winter Birds: Last Poems) |
reviewed by David Wright (1981)
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Thomas Blackburn (The Adjacent Kingdom: Collected Last Poems, edited and with an Introduction by Jean MacVean) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1989)
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Harry Blamires (Twentieth-century English Literature) |
reviewed by Fraser Steel (1984)
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Maurice Blanchot (The Last Man, translated by Lydia Davis) |
reviewed by Harry Guest (1989)
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Peter Bland (Paper Boats) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1994)
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Peter Bland (Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Michael Duggan (1998)
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Peter Bland (Remembering England) |
reviewed by Josh Hinton (2015)
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C. D. Blanton (Epic Negation: The Dialectical Poetics of Late Modernism) |
reviewed by Andrew Latimer (2016)
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Jean Bleakney (Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Carol Rumens (2017)
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Steen Steensen Blicher (The Diary of a Parish Clerk and other stories Introduction by Margaret Drabble. Translated by Paula Hostrup-Jessen) |
reviewed by David Arkell (1997)
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John Blight (Holiday Sea Sonnets) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1986)
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Alexander Blok (The Twelve, translated by Jack Lindsay ) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)
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Harold Bloom (The Flight to Lucifer) |
reviewed by Paul Carter (1981)
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Harold Bloom (Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1984)
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Harold Bloom (The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2016)
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Edmund Blunden (Edmund Blundenâs Undertones of War Edited by John Greening) |
reviewed by Robyn Marsack (2016)
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Jonathan Blunk (James Wright: A Life in Poetry) |
reviewed by Tony Roberts (2018)
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Robert Bly (This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood) |
reviewed by Andrew Waterman (1979)
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Robert Bly (Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Ian Tromp (1999)
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Ronald Blythe (From the Headlands) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1983)
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Jean Boase-Beier (New Poetry from Eastern and Central Europe. Edited by Jean Boase-Beier, Alexandra Büchler and Fiona Sampson) |
reviewed by Chris Miller (2005)
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Jean Boase-Beier (Poetry of the Holocaust: An Anthology) |
reviewed by Tara Bergin (2020)
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Johannes Bobrowski (From The Rivers, translated by Ruth and Matthew Mead) |
reviewed by Michael Vince (1978)
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Carl Bode (Practical Magic) |
reviewed by Ruth Morse (1982)
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Nina Bogin (The Winter Orchards) |
reviewed by Jennie Feldman (2001)
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Willard Bohn ((ed.), Surrealist Poetry: An Anthology) |
reviewed by Jeremy Over (2018)
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Willard Bohn (Reading Apollinaireâs Calligrammes) |
reviewed by Beverley Bie Brahic (2018)
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Eavan Boland (The War Horse) |
reviewed by Stan Smith (1978)
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Eavan Boland (The Journey) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (1988)
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Eavan Boland (The Lost Land) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (1999)
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Eavan Boland (The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, edited by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland) |
reviewed by Ian Tromp (2001)
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Eavan Boland (Domestic Violence) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2007)
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Eavan Boland (A Journey With Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet) |
reviewed by Andrew Walls (2012)
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Eavan Boland (The Historians) |
reviewed by Kate Arthur (2021)
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Rosita Boland (Muscle Creek) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
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Alan Bold (Thom Gunn & Ted Hughes) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (1978)
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Alan Bold (MacDiarmid: The Terrible Crystal) |
reviewed by Brian Morton (1984)
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Alan Bold ((ed.), W. H. Auden: The Far Interior) |
reviewed by Jem Poster (1988)
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Alan Bold (MacDiarmid [Christopher Murray Grieve]: A Critical Biography) |
reviewed by David Craig (1989)
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Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani (Knitting Drum-Machines for Exiled Tongues) |
reviewed by Oliver Dixon (2023)
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Peter de Bolla (Art Matters) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2002)
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Edward Bond (At the Inland Sea) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1998)
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Yves Bonnefoy (Things dying things newborn: selected poems of Yves Bonnefoy, translated by Anthony Rudolf, with wood engravings by Willow Winston ) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1986)
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Yves Bonnefoy (Early Poems 1947-1959 translated by Galway Kinnell and Richard Peaver and In The Shadow's Light translated by John T. Naughton) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1991)
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Yves Bonnefoy (On the Motion and Immobility of Douve, translated by Galway Kinnell) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
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Yves Bonnefoy (Écrus sur l'art et livres avec les artistes, La Vie errante, and Remarques sur le dessin) |
reviewed by Roger Little (1994)
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Yves Bonnefoy (New and Selected Poems, edited by John Naughton and Antony Rudolf and The Lure and the Truth of Painting: selected essays on art, edited by Richard Stamelman) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1996)
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Yves Bonnefoy (The Arrière-Pays) |
reviewed by Chris Miller (2012)
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Yves Bonnefoy (Beginning and End of the Snow, translated by Emily Grosholz with watercolours by Farhad Ostovani ) |
reviewed by Beverley Bie Brahic (2013)
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Yves Bonnefoy (The Red Scarf: Followed by Two Stages and Additional Notes) |
reviewed by Chris Miller (2021)
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Sean Bonney (Poisons, Their Antidotes) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (2004)
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Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné (Doe Songs) |
reviewed by Yvonne Reddick (2019)
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Malika Booker (Pepper Seed) |
reviewed by Lucy Sheerman (2016)
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Martin Booth (British Poetry 1964-84: Driving Through The Barricades) |
reviewed by Paul McLoughlin (1986)
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Elisabeth Borchers (Fish Magic, translated by Anneliese Wagner ) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1990)
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Kevin Borman (Seasons in a Raw Landscape) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)
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Jenny Bornholdt (Lost and Somewhere Else) |
reviewed by Maitreyabandhu (2020)
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Sean Borodale (Human Work) |
reviewed by Joey Connolly (2016)
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Leonid Borodin (Partings, translated by David Floyd) |
reviewed by Raymond Cooke (1989)
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Roo Borson (Intent, or The Weight of the World and Intent, or The Weight of the World) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1991)
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Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska (Pocket Apocalypse, translated by Gerry Murphy) |
reviewed by Carmen Bugan (2006)
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Keith Bosley (Stations) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1981)
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Keith Bosley (The Great Bear: A Thematic Anthology of Oral Poetry in the Finno-Ugrian Languages) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1995)
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Keith Bosley (The Wedding Guest: Selected Poems, edited by Owen Lowery and Anthony Rudolf) |
reviewed by Hilary Davies (2019)
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Alain Bosquet (Instead of Music, translated by William Frawley ) |
reviewed by John Clark (1981)
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Ronald Bottrall (Against a Setting Sun) |
reviewed by Chris McCully (1985)
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André du Bouchet (Openwork: Poetry and Prose translated by Paul Auster and Hoyt Rogers) |
reviewed by Chris Miller (2015)
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Eva Bourke (Piano) |
reviewed by Charlie Cocksedge (2012)
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Derek Bourne-Jones (Floating Reefs) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)
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Pierre Boutang (Maurras, la destinée et l'œvre) |
reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1985)
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Nicolas Bouvier (The Scorpion-Fish, translated by Robyn Marsack) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1989)
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Emmanuel Bove (My Friends, translated by Janet Louth) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1987)
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Helen Bowell (The Barman) |
reviewed by Joe Carrick-Varty (2022)
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Edgar Bowers (Living Together: new and collected poems ) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1979)
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Edgar Bowers (Witnesses) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)
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Malcolm Bowie (Freud, Proust and Lacan: theory as fiction) |
reviewed by Raymond Tallis (1989)
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Arthur Boyars (Dictations: Selected Poems 1940-2009 ) |
reviewed by Elaine Feinstein (2012)
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Karin Boye (Complete Poems, translated by David McDuff) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1995)
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Robert Boyers (Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner) |
reviewed by Tony Roberts (2024)
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Charles Boyle (House of Cards) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1983)
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Charles Boyle (Sleeping Rough) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (1988)
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Charles Boyle (The Disguise, Poems 1977â2001) |
reviewed by Edmund Prestwich (2021)
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Nicholas Boyle (Who Are We Now? Christian Humanism and the Global Market from Hegel to Heaney) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1999)
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Bozhidar Bozhilov (American Pages, tr. Cornelia Bozhilova) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)
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Rosalind Brackenbur (Coming Home the Long Way Round the Mountain) |
reviewed by Matthew Francis (1993)
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Malcolm Bradbury |
reviewed by Oliver Harris (1988)
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Richard Bradford (The Look of it: A Theory of Visual Form in English Poetry) |
reviewed by Roger Little (1995)
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Richard Bradford (The Odd Couple: The Curious Friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin) |
reviewed by James Booth (2013)
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Adam Bradley (The History of Pop) |
reviewed by Julian Stannard (2018)
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Joe Brainard (The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard) |
reviewed by Daniel Kane (2012)
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Michael Branch (The Great Bear: A Thematic Anthology of Oral Poetry in the Finno-Ugrian Languages) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1995)
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Rand Brandes (Seamus Heaney: A Bibliography, 1959- 2003) |
reviewed by Dennis O'Driscoll (2008)
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Kamau Brathwaite (Middle Passages) |
reviewed by Fenella Copplestone (1993)
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Richard Brautigan (So the Wind Wonât Blow It All Away) |
reviewed by Lauren Webb (2020)
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Paul Bray (Terrible Woods: Poems 1965-2008) |
reviewed by Evan Jones (2011)
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Alfred Brendel (One Finger Too Many) |
reviewed by Michael Duggan (1999)
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Catherine Brennan (Angers, Fantasies and Ghostly Fears: Nineteenth-Century Women from Wales and English Language Poetry) |
reviewed by Sheenagh Pugh (2004)
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Maeve Brennan (The Philip Larkin I Knew) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2003)
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André Breton (Poems of André Breton: a bilingual anthology translated and edited by Jean-Pierre Cauvin and Mary Ann Caws ) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1983)
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Bretyen Breytenbach (Judas Eye) |
reviewed by Dennis Walder (1989)
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Patrick Bridgwater (Poet of Expressionist Berlin: the life and work of Georg Heym) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1992)
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André Brink (Mapmakers: Writing in a State of Siege) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1983)
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Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (An Unchanging Blue: Selected Poems 1962-1975, translated by Mark Terrill) |
reviewed by Peter Riley (2012)
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Geoffrey Brock (Weighing Light) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2006)
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Geoffrey Brock (Voices Bright Flags) |
reviewed by Henry King (2015)
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Lucie Brock-Broido (Stay, Illusion) |
reviewed by Evan Jones (2014)
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Joseph Brodsky (A Part of Speech) |
reviewed by Lawrence Sail (1981)
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Emily Brontë (Poems of Solitude. Foreword by Helen Dunmore) |
reviewed by James McGrath (2005)
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Rupert Brooke (Letters from America and The Collected Poems) |
reviewed by Bronwen Williams (1989)
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Rupert Brooke (Song of Love, Letters of Rupert Brooke and Noel Olivier, edited by Pippa Harris) |
reviewed by F.T. Prince (1992)
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Rupert Brooke (Sixteen Poems Selected by Henry Maas) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
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Christine Brooke-Rose (Stories, Theories and Things) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1991)
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Christine Brooke-Rose (Remake) |
reviewed by Michael Grant (1996)
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Christine Brooke-Rose (Invisible Author: Last Essays) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2002)
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David Brooks (The Cold Front) |
reviewed by Ruth Morse (1984)
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Sarah Broom (Contemporary British and Irish Poetry) |
reviewed by Barry Woods (2006)
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Nicole Brossard (Selections) |
reviewed by John Muckle (2010)
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Andy Brown (Hunting the Kinnayas) |
reviewed by Tony Roberts (2005)
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Jacqueline Brown (Thinking Egg) |
reviewed by Matthew Francis (1993)
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Judy Brown (One of the Summer People) | reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2014) |
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Merle E. Brown (Double Lyric: Divisiveness and Communal Creativity in Recent English Poetry) |
reviewed by Robyn Marsack (1982)
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Alan Brownjohn (A Night in the Gazebo) |
reviewed by Glen Cavaliero (1981)
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Alan Brownjohn (Collected Poems ) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1984)
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Rosanna Bruno (Euripides: The Trojan Women: A comic) |
reviewed by Hilary White (2022)
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Colette Bryce (Self-Portrait in the Dark) |
reviewed by Henry King (2010)
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Colette Bryce (Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Will Maclean (2018)
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Sam Buchan-Watts (Faber New Poets) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
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Sam Buchan-Watts (Path Through Wood) |
reviewed by Hal Coase (2022)
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George Buchanan (Possible Being) |
reviewed by Stephen Bann (1981)
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Alexandra Büchler (New Poetry from Eastern and Central Europe. Edited by Jean Boase-Beier, Alexandra Büchler and Fiona Sampson) |
reviewed by Chris Miller (2005)
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Heather Buck (Psyche Unbound) |
reviewed by Rennie Parker (1995)
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Suzanne Buffam (The Irrationalist) |
reviewed by Evan Jones (2011)
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Charles Bukowski (Ham on Rye) |
reviewed by Oliver Harris (1986)
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Charles Bukowski (War All the Time) |
reviewed by Michael Hofmann (1986)
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Charles Bukowski (Essential Bukowski, Selected and edited by Abel Debritto) |
reviewed by Rowland Bagnall (2017)
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Basil Bunting (Uncollected Poems, edited with notes by Richard Caddel) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1992)
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Basil Bunting (Briggflatts) |
reviewed by Tony Roberts (2010)
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Anthony Burgess (Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems, edited by Kevin Jackson) |
reviewed by Olivier Burckhardt (2003)
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Allan Burgis (Full Circle) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)
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Richard Burns (The Manager. A Poem) |
reviewed by Francis R. Jones (2003)
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Robert Burns (Bawdy Verse And Folksongs, written and collected by Robert Burns; introduced by Magnus Magnusson and The Merry Muses of Caledonia, edited by James Barke and Sydney Goodsir Smith, with a Prefatory Note and some authentic Burns Texts contributed by J. DeLancey Ferguson) |
reviewed by I.A. Liddle (1985)
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Will Burns (Faber New Poets 10) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2015)
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John Burnside (The Hoop) |
reviewed by Tom Phillips (1989)
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John Burnside (Feast Days) |
reviewed by W.N. Herbert (1992)
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John Burnside (The Myth of the Twin) |
reviewed by Will Eaves (1995)
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John Burnside (Swimming in the Flood) |
reviewed by Ra Page (1996)
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John Burnside (A Normal Skin) |
reviewed by Brian Henry (1997)
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John Burnside (The Light Trap) |
reviewed by Julia Forster (2002)
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John Burnside (The Good Neighbour) |
reviewed by Tony Roberts (2006)
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John Burnside (Still Life with Feeding Snake) |
reviewed by John Muckle (2018)
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John Burnside (Still Life with Feeding Snake) |
reviewed by Rory Waterman (2018)
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Janet Burroway (Material Goods) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)
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Colin Burrows (Imitating Authors) |
reviewed by Geoffrey Heptonstall (2023)
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Miles Burrows (Take Us the Little Foxes: collected poems) | reviewed by N.S. Thompson (2022) |
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Dan Burt (Searched for Text) |
reviewed by Elaine Feinstein (2009)
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Dan Burt (Certain Windows) |
reviewed by Will Eaves (2011)
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Stephanie Burt (Donât Read Poetry) |
reviewed by Edmund Prestwich (2020)
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Stephen Burt (The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence) |
reviewed by Ruth Hawthorn (2008)
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Stephen Burt (The Forms of Youth: 20th-Century Poetry and Adolescence) |
reviewed by Heather Clark (2009)
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Stephen Burt (The Art of the Sonnet) | reviewed by Philip Terry (2010) |
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Stephen Burt (The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary Poems and How to Read Them) |
reviewed by Henry King (2017)
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Stephen Burt (The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them) |
reviewed by Tony Roberts (2017)
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Stephen Burt (Advice from the Lights) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2019)
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Eberhard Busch (Karl Barth-His life from Letters and Autobiographical Texts, translated by John Bowden) |
reviewed by Andrew Louth (1980)
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Duncan Bush (Aquarium) |
reviewed by Michael Bird (1984)
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Ronald Bush (T. S. Eliot, A Study in Character and Style) |
reviewed by Dennis Keene (1985)
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Christopher Butler (After the Wake: An essay on the contemporary avant-garde) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1982)
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Ron Butlin (The Exquisite Instrument) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)
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Derrick Buttress (Welcome to the Bike Factory) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2014)
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Mary Butts (The Crystal Cabinet) |
reviewed by Nathalie Blondel (1989)
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Dino Buzzati (A Love Affair, translated by Joseph Green) |
reviewed by Roger Cardinal (1988)
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Don Byrd (Charles Olson's Maximus) |
reviewed by Adrian Clarke (1981)
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James Byrne (Blood/Sugar) |
reviewed by Oliver Dixon (2010)
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Michael Byrne (Modern Scottish Women Poets, edited and introduced by Dorothy McMillan and Michael Byrne) |
reviewed by Vivienne Neale (2004)
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John Byrum (Alan Halsey, John Byrum, Geraldine Monk, Ahadada Reader 1) |
reviewed by Philip Terry (2005)
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