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Reviews, Reviewees - J
Reviews, Reviewees - J
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Edmond Jabès (A Share of Ink, translated by Anthony Rudolf) |
reviewed by John Clark (1981)
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Philippe Jaccottet (Beauregard and Under Clouded Skies) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1996)
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Nicki Jackowska (The Knot Garden) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)
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Nicki Jackowska |
reviewed by John Berger (2000)
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Major Jackson (Roll Deep) |
reviewed by Ian Pople (2017)
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Michael Jackson (Going On) |
reviewed by Angela Smith (1988)
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W.D. Jackson (Opus 3) |
reviewed by Chris McCully (2020)
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Max Jacob (Advice to a Young Poet) |
reviewed by Deborah Mitchell (1979)
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Max Jacob (Hesitant Fire: Selected Prose of Max Jacob, translated and edited by Moishe Black and Maria Green) |
reviewed by Miles Champion (1992)
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Max Jacob (The Dice Cup, translated by Ian Seed) |
reviewed by Jeremy Over (2023)
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Rolf Jacobsen (The Silence Afterwards: selected poems of Rolf Jacobsen, translated by Roger Greenwald ) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1987)
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Dan Jacobson (The Story of the Stories: The Chosen People and its God) |
reviewed by Martin Jarrett-Kerr (1983)
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Naomi Jaffa (The Last Hour of Sleep) |
reviewed by Jackie Wills (2004)
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Clive James (Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin) |
reviewed by Martin Caseley (2020)
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John James (Berlin Return) |
reviewed by Geoffrey Ward (1984)
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John James (Sarments: New and Selected Poems) |
reviewed by John Muckle (2019)
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Frederic Jameson (Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1991)
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Frederic Jameson (The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1988) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1999)
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Kathleen Jamie (The Queen of Sheba) |
reviewed by Matthew Francis (1994)
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Kathleen Jamie (Jizzen) |
reviewed by Kate Clanchy (2000)
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Kathleen Jamie (Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead: Poems 1980-1994, selected by Lilias Fraser) |
reviewed by Leah Fritz (2002)
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Kathleen Jamie (The Bonniest Companie) |
reviewed by Sue Leigh (2016)
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Kathleen Jamie (Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Sue Leigh (2019)
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Juli Jana (ra-t) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2015)
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Mark Jarman (To the Green Man) |
reviewed by Ruth Fainlight (2005)
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Mark Jarman (Epistles) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2008)
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Randall Jarrell (The Complete Poems) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1982)
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Randall Jarrell (Kipling, Auden & Co. and Randall Jarrell's Letters, edited by Mary Jarrell ) |
reviewed by Jem Poster (1987)
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Randall Jarrell (on W.H. Auden, edited by Stephen Burt) |
reviewed by Peter Robinson (2005)
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Simon Jarvis (The Unconditional) |
reviewed by John Muckle (2006)
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Simon Jarvis (Night Office) |
reviewed by Adam Crothers (2014)
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David Jasper (The New Testament and the Literary Imagination) |
reviewed by Peter Levi (1988)
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Keith Jebb (A E Housman) |
reviewed by Alan Holden (1992)
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A. Norman Jeffares (Anglo-Irish Literature) |
reviewed by Fraser Steel (1984)
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (The Age of Phillis) |
reviewed by Andrew Hadfield (2021)
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Robinson Jeffers (Selected Poems, edited by Colin Falck) |
reviewed by C.J. Fox (1988)
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Robinson Jeffers (The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volume III, 1938-1962, edited by Tim Hunt) |
reviewed by C.J. Fox (1991)
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Alan Jenkins (Greenheart ) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1990)
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Alan Jenkins (Harm) |
reviewed by Will Eaves (1995)
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Alan Jenkins (The Drift) |
reviewed by Anthony Howell (2000)
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Islwyn Jenkins (Idris Davies of Rhymney ) |
reviewed by Jeremy Hooker (1991)
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Mike Jenkins (The Common Land ) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)
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Mike Jenkins (Empire of Smoke) |
reviewed by Richard Poole (1984)
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Mike Jenkins (This House My Ghetto) |
reviewed by Rennie Parker (1996)
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Nigel Jenkins (Song and Dance) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)
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Nigel Jenkins (Blue) |
reviewed by Patrick McGuinness (2003)
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Paul Jenkins (Radio Tooth) |
reviewed by Brian Henry (1998)
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Simon Jenner (About Bloody Time) |
reviewed by James Keery (2010)
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Elizabeth Jennings (Consequently I Rejoice) | reviewed by Neil Powell (1979) |
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Elizabeth Jennings (Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Michael Cayley (1980)
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Elizabeth Jennings (Moments of Grace) |
reviewed by Fraser Steel (1981)
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Elizabeth Jennings (Collected Poems) |
reviewed by Peter Levi (1987)
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Elizabeth Jennings (Familiar Spirits) |
reviewed by Howard Osborne (1995)
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Elizabeth Jennings (Praises) |
reviewed by Caitriona O'Reilly (1999)
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Carrie Jerrell (After the Revival) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2010)
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Three Continents) |
reviewed by Edwina Burness (1988)
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Adam Johnson (Collected Poems, edited with an Afterword by Neil Powell) |
reviewed by Peter Scupham (2003)
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Kate Johnson (Gods) |
reviewed by Jeremy Hooker (1989)
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Louis Johnson (True Confessions of the Last Cannibal) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1988)
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Mary Johnson (Here on Earth) |
reviewed by Chris McCully (1984)
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Nicholas Johnson (Etruscan Reader I) |
reviewed by James Keery (1999)
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Andrew Johnston (How to Talk) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1994)
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Charles Johnston (The Irish Lights) |
reviewed by Chris McCully (1984)
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Charles Johnston (Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Peter Levi (1986)
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Dafydd Johnston (Canu Maswedd yr Oesoedd Canol: Medieval Welsh Erotic Poetry, edited, with English translations and an introduction, by Dafydd Johnston) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1992)
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Bramwell Jones (Cadence Notes) |
reviewed by Deborah Mitchell (1979)
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Brian Jones (The Island Normal ) |
reviewed by Michael Cayley (1981)
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Brian Jones (The Children of Separation) |
reviewed by Paul McLoughlin (1987)
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Brian Jones (Brian Jones, New & Selected Poems ) |
reviewed by Grevel Lindop (2014)
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David Jones (The Kensington Mass) |
reviewed by Neil Corcoran (1979)
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David Jones (The Roman Quarry, edited by Harman Grisewood and René Hague) |
reviewed by Peter Levi (1982)
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David Jones |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1982)
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David Jones (The Narrows) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)
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David Jones (Man and Poet, edited by John Matthias) |
reviewed by Jeremy Hooker (1991)
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David Jones (Wedding Poems, edited by Thomas Dilworth) |
reviewed by Alex Davis (2002)
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David Jones (In Parenthesis) |
reviewed by Luke Kennard (2011)
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David Jones (The Grail Mass and Other Works) |
reviewed by Hilary Davies (2020)
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Evan Jones (Left at the Post) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1986)
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Gayl Jones (Song for Almeyda & Song for Anninho) |
reviewed by Nell Osborne (2022)
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Glyn Jones (Profiles: a visitor's guide to writing in twentieth-century Wales) |
reviewed by Sam Adams (1982)
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Glyn Jones |
reviewed by Vona Groarke (1997)
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John Jones (Dostoevsky) |
reviewed by Michael Bird (1984)
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John Jones (Shakespeare at Work) |
reviewed by Emma Tristram (1997)
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K. Jones (Beliefs and Religion) |
reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1978)
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Kathleen Jones (Learning not to be First: The Life of Christina Rossetti) |
reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1992)
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Oliver Jones (Refugees Welcome: Poems in a Time of Crisis , ed. Oliver Jones) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
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Peter Jones |
reviewed by Michael Schmidt (1979)
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Peter Jones (An Introduction to 50 American Poets) |
reviewed by Donald Davie (1980)
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Andrew Jordan (The Mute Bride) |
reviewed by Jeremy Hooker (1998)
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Andrew Jordan (Ha Ha) |
reviewed by Jeremy Hooker (2007)
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Jenny Joseph (Beyond Descartes) |
reviewed by Steven Tuohy (1983)
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Jenny Joseph (Persephone) |
reviewed by Elizabeth Baines (1987)
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Jenny Joseph (Ghosts and Other Company) |
reviewed by Matthew Francis (1996)
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Jenny Joseph (Extended Similes) |
reviewed by Vona Groarke (1998)
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Harry Josephine-Giles (Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel) |
reviewed by Paul March-Russell (2023)
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Gabriel Josipovici (Four Stories) | reviewed by Lawrence Sail (1979) |
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Gabriel Josipovici (Writing and the Body) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1984)
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Gabriel Josipovici (Contre-Jour: a triptych after Pierre Bonnard) |
reviewed by James Hansford (1986)
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Gabriel Josipovici (The Book of God: A Response to the Bible) |
reviewed by Gerald Hammond (1989)
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Gabriel Josipovici (Text and Voice: Essays 1981-1991) |
reviewed by Matthew Hodges (1993)
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Gabriel Josipovici (A Life) | reviewed by Anthony Rudolf (2001) |
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Gabriel Josipovici (Goldberg: Variations) |
reviewed by Stephen Mitchelmore (2003)
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Gabriel Josipovici ('Heart's Wings' & Other Stories) |
reviewed by Vesna Main (2011)
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Gabriel Josipovici (Infinity: The Story of a Moment) |
reviewed by David Winters (2012)
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Pierre Jean Jouve (Despair Has Wings: Selected Poems, translated by David Gascoyne, edited with an introductory essay by Roger Scott) |
reviewed by John Muckle (2008)
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Trevor Joyce (Fastness: A Translation from the English of Edmund Spenser) |
reviewed by Andrew Hadfield (2018)
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Alan Judd (Ford Madox Ford ) |
reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1990)
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Maryann De Julio (Rhetorical Landscapes: the poetry and art criticism of Jacques Dupin) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1993)
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Enrique Juncosa (Bay of Flags and Other Poems) |
reviewed by James Womack (2013)
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Donald Justice (Platonic Scripts) |
reviewed by Ruth Morse (1987)
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Donald Justice (New and Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Justin Quinn (1997)
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Donald Justice (Orpheus Hesitated Beside the Black River: Poems 1952-1997) |
reviewed by Sebastian Barker (1999)
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Donald Justice (Donald Justice in conversation with Philip Hoy, Between the Lines) |
reviewed by N.S. Thompson (2002)
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