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Judy Gahagan
(Crossing the No-Man's Land)
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Judy Gahagan
(Night Calling)
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Katherine Gallagher
(Passengers to the City)
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Katherine Gallagher
(Acres of Light)
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Tess Gallagher
(Portable Kisses)
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Tess Gallagher
(Is, Not Is)
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John Gallas
(Flying Carpets over Filbert Street)
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John Gallas
(Mad John's Walk)
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Rhian Galllagher
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Cathy Galvin
(Rough Translation)
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Cathy Galvin
(Walking the Coventry Ring Road with Lady Godiva)
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James Galvin
(Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997)
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Mirielle Gansel
(and Reiner Kunze, In Time of Need, translated by Edmund Jephcott, with an essay by Ritchie Robertson)
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Roger Garfitt
(Given Ground)
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Beatrice Garland
(The Invention of Fireworks)
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Elizabeth Garrett
(The Rule of Three)
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Elizabeth Garrett
(A Two-Part Invention)
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Jean Garrigue
(Selected Poems)
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Deborah Garrison
(A Working Girl Can't Win)
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Deborah Garrison
(A Working Girl Can't Win)
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Deborah Garrison
(The Second Child)
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David Gascoyne
(Journal 1936-1937)
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David Gascoyne
(Collected Poems 1988)
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David Gascoyne
(Selected Poems)
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David Gascoyne
(Night Thoughts)
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David Gascoyne
(Selected Prose 1934-1996)
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David Gascoyne
(New Collected Poems, edited by Roger Scott)
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David Gascoyne
(Anniversary Epistle to Allen Ginsberg)
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Jonathan Gash
(Moneyspender)
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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)
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Lorand Gaspar
(The Word at Hand)
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Simon Gaunt
(The Song of Roland and Other Poems of Charlemagne, a new translation by Simon Gaunt and Karen Pratt)
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Gary Geddes
(Light of Burning Towers: Poems New and Selected)
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Gary Geddes
(The Terracotta Army)
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Albert Gelpi
(American Poetry after Modernism: The Power of the Word)
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Gérard Genette
(Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation)
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David Gentleman
(London, You're Beautiful: An Artist's Year)
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Strickland Geoffrey
(Structuralism or Criticism? Thoughts on How We Read)
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Dai George
(The Claims Office)
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Karen Gershon
(My Daughters, My Sisters)
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Azita Ghahreman
(Negative of a Group Photograph)
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Waguih Ghali
(Beer in the Snooker Club)
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Reginald Gibbons
(The Ruined Motel)
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Reginald Gibbons
(How Poems Think)
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Reginald Gibbons
(How Poems Think)
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Henry Gifford
(Poetry in a divided world)
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Henry Gifford
(Poetry in a Divided World)
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Terry Gifford
(Ted Hughes: A Critical Study - with Neil Roberts)
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Mario Martín Gijón
(Sur(rendering))
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Geoff Gilbert
(Hold! West)
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Amir Gilboa
(The Light of Lost Suns: Selected Poems, translated by Shirley Kaufman)
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Pamela Gillilan
(All Steel Traveller. New and Selected Poems)
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Natalia Ginzburg
(The Little Virtues)
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Dana Gioia
(The Gods of Winter)
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Dana Gioia
(Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American Culture)
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Dana Gioia
(Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture)
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Chrissie Gittins
(Armature)
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Peter Gizzi
(Some Values of Landscape and Weather)
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Peter Gizzi
(The Outernationale)
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Peter Gizzi
(Threshold Songs)
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Peter Gizzi
(In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems 1987–2011)
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Peter Gizzi
(Sky Burial)
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Peter Gizzi
(Fierce Elegy)
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Jon Glover
(Our Photographs)
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Jon Glover
(To the Niagara Frontier)
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Michael Glover
(Only So Much )
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Louise Glück
(The House on Marshland )
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Louise Glück
(The Wild Iris)
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Louise Glück
(Meadowlands)
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Louise Glück
(Vita Nova)
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Louise Glück
(Ulriche Draesner translates Louise Glück's Averno into German)
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Louise Glück
(A Village Life)
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Louise Glück
(Faithful and Virtuous Night)
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Louise Glück
(American Originality)
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Louise Glück
(Marigold and Rose)
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Michael Gnarowski
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Guntars Godins
(Flying Blind, translated by Eugene O'Connell)
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J.W. von Goethe
(Faust, Part One, translated by David Luke)
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John Gohorry
(The Coast of Bohemia)
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John Gohorry
(Talk into the Late Evening)
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Albert Goldbarth
(Saving Lives and Troubled Lovers in History)
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Jonathan Goldberg
(Voice Terminal Echo. Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts)
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William Golding
(The Hot Gates, A Moving Target, The Paper Men)
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Kenneth Goldsmith
(Against Translation)
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R. James Goldstein
(The English Lyric Tradition: Reading Poetic Masterpieces of the Middle Ages and Renaissance)
Subscribers only reviewed by Andrew Hadfield (2017)
Peter Goldsworthy
(This Goes WithThat: Selected Poems 1970-1990)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hulse (1993)
George Gömöri
(The Colonnade of Teeth: Modern Hungarian Poetry)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Pilling (1997)
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)
Subscribers only reviewed by Andrew Hadfield (2008)
Fernande Gontier
(Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Lisa Nesselson)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1989)
John Goodby
(The Poetry of Dylan Thomas: Under the Spelling Wall )
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Lorna Goodison
(Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems)
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Natalya Gorbanevskaya
(Selected Poems, trans by Daniel Weissbort)
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Caroline Gordon
( A Literary Friendship: Correspondence Between Caroline Gordon and Ford Madox Ford, edited by Brita Lindberg-Seyersted)
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Grey Gowrie
(The Right Place)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
Hermann Grab
(The Town Park and other stories, translated by Quintin Hoare)
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Desmond Graham
(A Rumtopf For Summer)
Subscribers only reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1991)
Desmond Graham
(The Marching Bands)
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Desmond Graham
(After Shakespeare)
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Desmond Graham
(The Green Parakeet)
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Jorie Graham
(Region of Unlikeness)
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Jorie Graham
(Materialism)
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Jorie Graham
(The Errancy)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (1997)
Jorie Graham
(The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994)
reviewed by Justin Quinn (1997)
Jorie Graham
(Overlord)
Subscribers only reviewed by Andrew Rudd (2006)
Jorie Graham
(Runaway)
Subscribers only reviewed by Maitreyabandhu (2021)
W.S. Graham
(Collected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Schmidt (1980)
W.S. Graham
(Aimed at Nobody: Poems from Notebooks)
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W.S. Graham
(Selected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Matthew Francis (1996)
W.S. Graham
(New Collected Poems, edited by Matthew Francis, with a preface by Douglas Dunn)
reviewed by Richard Price (2004)
W.S. Graham
(Speaking Towards You, edited by Ralph Pite and Hester Jones)
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Lee Grandjean
(Their Silence a Language)
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Dominique Grandmont
(Images au Miroir/Mirror Images )
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K.W. Gransden
(The Last Picnic)
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)
Günter Grass
(Selected Poems )
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Ida Affleck Graves
(A Kind Husband)
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Robert Graves
(Poems selected by Robert Graves and Anthony Thwaite)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nick Rhodes (1979)
Robert Graves
(Collected Writings on Poetry, edited by Paul O'Prey)
Subscribers only reviewed by Patrick McGuinness (1995)
Alisdair Gray
(Collected Verses)
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Kathryn Gray
(The Never-Never)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Lyon (2005)
Kathryn Gray
(Flowers)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)
Kathryn Gray
(Hollywood or Home)
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Robert Gray
(Lineations)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Duggan (1999)
Robert Gray
(Grass Script: Selected Earlier Poems and Lineations)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian Pople (2001)
Robert Greacen
(Collected Poems 1944-1994 and Even Without Irene. An Autobiography)
Subscribers only reviewed by Charles Hobday (1996)
Paul Green
(A Comparative Daimon)
Subscribers only reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1991)
Stephen Greenblatt
(The Swerve: How The Renaissance Began)
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Jeffrey Greene
(American Spirituals)
Subscribers only reviewed by Kate Price (1999)
Richard Greene
(Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius)
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John Greening
(The Tutankhamun Variations)
Subscribers only reviewed by Keith Silver (1993)
John Greening
(To the War Poets)
Subscribers only reviewed by Valerie Duff-Strautmann (2014)
John Greening
(Threading A Dream: A Poet on the Nile)
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John Greening
(The Silence)
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John Greening
(Vapour Trails: Reviews and Essays on Poetry)
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Lavinia Greenlaw
(Night Photograph)
Subscribers only reviewed by Keith Silver (1994)
Lavinia Greenlaw
(Minsk)
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Lavinia Greenlaw
(A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde)
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Linda Gregerson
(Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, 1976–2014)
Subscribers only reviewed by Evan Jones (2016)
Ian Gregor
(Mark Kinkead-Weekes and Ian Gregor, William Golding: A Critical Study )
Subscribers only reviewed by Mark Thompson (1985)
Andrew Greig
(As Though We Were Flying)
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Kate Grenville
(Bearded Ladies)
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C.M. Grieve
(Annals of the Five Senses, introduction by Alan Bold)
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Jasper Griffin
(Virgil)
Subscribers only reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1987)
Bill Griffiths
(A Tract against the Giants)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hulse (1990)
Bill Griffiths
(Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80), edited by Alan Halsey and Ken Edwards )
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Bill Griffiths
(Collected Poems and Sequences 1981–91)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Muckle (2014)
Eric Griffiths
(The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry)
Subscribers only reviewed by Peter Robinson (1990)
Jane Griffiths
(A Grip on Thin Air)
Subscribers only reviewed by David Kennedy (2001)
Jane Griffiths
(Icarus on Earth)
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Jane Griffiths
(Silent in Finisterre)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)
Kate Griffiths
(The Attitudes)
Subscribers only reviewed by Jazmine Linklater (2022)
Paul Griffiths
(The Tilted Cup: Noh Stories)
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2014)
Steve Griffiths
(Anglesey Material)
Subscribers only reviewed by John Clarke (1981)
Geoffrey Grigson
(History of Him)
Subscribers only reviewed by Jem Poster (1981)
Geoffrey Grigson
(Blessings, Kicks and Curses: A Critical Collection; Collected Poems 1963-1980; and The Private Art: A Poetry Note-Book)
Subscribers only reviewed by Jem Poster (1983)
Anne Grimes
(Alice's Cat)
Subscribers only reviewed by James McGrath (2005)
Vona Groarke
(Shale)
Subscribers only reviewed by Matthew Francis (1995)
Vona Groarke
(Other People's Houses)
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Vona Groarke
(Flight)
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Vona Groarke
(Juniper Street)
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Vona Groarke
Subscribers only reviewed by John Redmond (2009)
Vona Groarke
(Link: Poet and World)
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Vona Groarke
(Woman of Winter)
Subscribers only reviewed by Gwyneth Lewis (2024)
Emily Grosholz
(The Stars of Earth)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (2019)
John Gross
(Oxford Book of Aphorisms)
Subscribers only reviewed by Idris Parry (1983)
Philip Gross
(Familiars and The Ice Factory)
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1985)
Philip Gross
(Cat's Whisker)
Subscribers only reviewed by Lawrence Sail (1988)
Philip Gross
(The Air Mines of Mistila)
Subscribers only reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1989)
Philip Gross
(The Son of the Duke of Nowhere )
Subscribers only reviewed by David Kennedy (1991)
Philip Gross
(J.D.)
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Philip Gross
(The Egg of Zero)
Subscribers only reviewed by Roger Caldwell (2006)
Philip Gross
(Love Songs of Carbon)
Subscribers only reviewed by Edmund Prestwich (2016)
David Grubb
(It Comes With A Bit of Song)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nick Telfer (2008)
David H.W. Grubb
(The Elephant in the Room)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2005)
Eve Grubin
(The House of Our First Loving)
Subscribers only reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
Durs Grünbein
Subscribers only reviewed by André Naffis-Sahely (2010)
Susan Gubernat
(The Zoo at Night)
Subscribers only reviewed by David C. Ward (2019)
Suzanne Guerlac
(Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre; Valéry, Breton)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1998)
Harry Guest
(Elegies)
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)
Harry Guest
(Lost and Found)
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Harry Guest
(Last Harvest)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ian Pople (2021)
Charles Gullans
(Imperfect Correspondances and Many Houses)
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)
Hjalmar Gullberg
(Gentleman, Single, Refined, tr. Judith Moffett )
Subscribers only reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)
Daniel Gunn
(Psychoanalysis and Fiction: An Exploration of Literary and Psychoanalytic Borders)
Subscribers only reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1990)
Kirsty Gunn
(Imagined Spaces)
Subscribers only reviewed by Iain Bamforth (2021)
Thom Gunn
(Jack Straw's Castle, The Missed Beat, and To the Air)
Subscribers only reviewed by Neil Powell (1978)
Thom Gunn
(Selected Poems 1950-1975)
reviewed by Dick Davis (1980)
Thom Gunn
(The Occasions of Poetry: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography and The Passages of Joy)
Subscribers only reviewed by Neil Powell (1983)
Thom Gunn
(The Man with Night Sweats)
Subscribers only reviewed by Neil Powell (1992)
Thom Gunn
(Collected Poems)
Subscribers only reviewed by Eavan Boland (1993)
Thom Gunn
(Boss Cupid)
Subscribers only reviewed by Greg Woods (2000)
Grass Günter
(Die Rättin)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hamburger (1987)
Ivor Gurney
(Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney, edited and introduced by P. J. Kavanagh)
Subscribers only reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1983)
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)
Subscribers only reviewed by R.K.R. Thornton (1987)
Ivor Gurney
(The Piano Music of Ivor Gurney and Edward Elgar, performed by Alan Gravill)
Subscribers only reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1992)
Ivor Gurney
(Poems)
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Ivor Gurney
(Seven Sappho Songs, words by William Bliss Carman)
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John Gurney
(Wheal Zion)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Vince (1981)
Ralph Gustafson
(The Moment Is All: Selected Poems 1944-83)
Subscribers only reviewed by Michael Hulse (1987)
Lars Gustafsson
(Selected Poems, translated by John Irons)
Subscribers only reviewed by Ross Cogan (2016)
Dafydd ap Gwilym
(A Selection of Poems, edited by Rachel Bromwich)
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