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Reviews, Reviewees - W
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Amy Wack (Seren Selections, edited by Amy Wack) |
reviewed by Eleanor Crawforth (2006)
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Miriam Waddington (Collected Poems) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1990)
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Erica Wagner (Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the story of Birthday Letters) |
reviewed by Kate Clanchy (2000)
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Jan Wagner (Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees) |
reviewed by Jamie Osborn (2015)
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Jeffrey Wainwright (Poetry: The Basics) |
reviewed by Anthony Radice (2005)
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Jeffrey Wainwright (Clarity or Death!) |
reviewed by Alex Wylie (2009)
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Derek Walcott (The Fortunate Traveller) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1982)
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Derek Walcott (Remembrance and Pantomine) |
reviewed by Michael Bird (1982)
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Derek Walcott (Midsummer) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1985)
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Derek Walcott (Omeros) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1991)
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Derek Walcott (The Odyssey: A Stage Version) |
reviewed by Kate Chisholm (1993)
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Derek Walcott (The Bounty) |
reviewed by Andrew Zawacki (1998)
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Derek Walcott (The Prodigal) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2006)
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Derek Walcott (White Egrets) |
reviewed by Tony Roberts (2010)
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Anna Walczuk (Elizabeth Jennings and the Sacramental Nature of Poetry) |
reviewed by Dana Greene (2018)
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Alan Wald (The Revolutionary Imagination: The Poetry and Politics of John Wheelwright and Sherry Mangan) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1984)
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Rosmarie Waldrop ( Dissonance (if you are interested)) |
reviewed by Michael Peverett (2006)
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Alice Walker (Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2020)
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Marshall Walker (The Literature of the United States of America) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1984)
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Marshall Walker (Scottish Literature since 1707) | reviewed by Alan Riach (1998) |
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Marshall Walker (Dear Sibelius: Letter from a Junky) |
reviewed by Alan Riach (2009)
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Ted Walker (The High Path) |
reviewed by Jeremy Hooker (1983)
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Ted Walker (Hands at a Live Fire) |
reviewed by Michael Bird (1989)
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Alan Wall (Jacob) |
reviewed by Roger Caldwell (1994)
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Naomi Wallace (To Dance a Stony Field) |
reviewed by Rennie Parker (1996)
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Ronald Wallace (Plums, Stones, Kisses and Hooks) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)
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Chris Wallace-Crabbe (The Amorous Cannibal) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1986)
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Chris Wallace-Crabbe (Whirling) |
reviewed by Michael Duggan (1998)
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Chris Wallace-Crabbe (Rondo) |
reviewed by William Poulos (2019)
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Martin Walser (The Inner Man) |
reviewed by David Marriott (1987)
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Robert Walser (Selected Stories, translated by Christopher Middleton and others, with a foreword by Susan Sontag ) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1983)
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Brian Waltham (Masterclass) |
reviewed by Steven Blyth (1995)
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Peter Walton (Out of Season) |
reviewed by Matt Simpson (1980)
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David C. Ward (Internal Difference) |
reviewed by David Kinloch (2011)
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J. P. Ward (To Get Clear) |
reviewed by Ian McMillan (1983)
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Philip Ward (Impostors And Their Imitators) |
reviewed by Deborah Mitchell (1979)
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Noah Wardrip-Fruin (edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort) |
reviewed by Edward Picot (2003)
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Kat Payne Ware (The Live Album) |
reviewed by Rory Waterman (2021)
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Patrick Warner (Mole) |
reviewed by Evan Jones (2009)
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Sylvia Townsend Warner (Letters, ed. William Maxwell) |
reviewed by Claire Harman (1983)
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Sylvia Townsend Warner (Collected Poems, edited with an introduction by Claire Harman) |
reviewed by Glen Cavaliero (1983)
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Val Warner (Before Lunch) |
reviewed by Eavan Boland (1988)
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Val Warner (Tooting Idyll) |
reviewed by Stan Smith (2001)
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Robert Penn Warren (Rumor Verified) |
reviewed by Michael Hofmann (1983)
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Robert Penn Warren (The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren edited by John Burt with a foreword by Harold Bloom) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (1999)
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Rosanna Warren (Departure) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2006)
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Lewis Warsh (Elixir) |
reviewed by Daniel Kane (2023)
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Andrew Waterman (Over the Wall) |
reviewed by Neil Corcoran (1981)
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Rory Waterman (Belonging and Estrangement in the Poetry of Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Charles) |
reviewed by Andrew Latimer (2015)
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Rory Waterman (Wendy Cope) |
reviewed by N.S. Thompson (2022)
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Vernon Watkins (The Breaking of the Wave) |
reviewed by Matt Simpson (1980)
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Vernon Watkins (Selected Verse Translations) |
reviewed by Sarah Matthews (1981)
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Vernon Watkins (Poems for Dylan) |
reviewed by Grevel Lindop (2004)
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Robert Watson (The Pendulum) |
reviewed by Nathan Ewer (1996)
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Stephen Watson (In this City) |
reviewed by Angela Smith (1988)
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Rebecca Watts (The Met Office Advises Caution) |
reviewed by Paul Stephenson (2017)
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Rebecca Watts (Red Gloves) |
reviewed by Yvonne Reddick (2021)
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Patricia Waugh (Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1986)
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Harold L. Weatherby (The Keen Delight: The Christian Poet in the Modern World) |
reviewed by David Levy (1978)
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A. Kingsley Weatherhead (The British Dissonance) |
reviewed by Robert Sheppard (1985)
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Barry Webb (Edmund Blunden: a Biography) |
reviewed by Robyn Marsack (1992)
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Christine Webb (After Babel) |
reviewed by Kate Keogan (2005)
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Harri Webb (Collected Poems. Edited by Meic Stephens) |
reviewed by Angharad Price (1996)
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Phyllis Webb (Hanging Fire) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1992)
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Ian Wedde (Tales of Gotham City) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1985)
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Simone Weil (an Anthology, edited and introduced by Siân Miles ) |
reviewed by Walter Michel (1986)
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Simone Weil (Formative Writings 1929-1941, edited and translated by Dorothy Tuck McFarland and Wilhelmina Van Ness) |
reviewed by Peter Hazeldine (1989)
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Theodore Weiss (The Man from Porlock) |
reviewed by Brian Morton (1983)
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Daniel Weissbort (What Was All the Fuss About?) |
reviewed by Lawrence Sail (2000)
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Daniel Weissbort (Letters to Ted) |
reviewed by James McGrath (2003)
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Denton Welch (Denton Welch, Fragments of a Life Story, edited and introduced by Michael De-la-Noy; Denton Welch, I Left My Grandfather's House, introduced by Michael De-la-Noy; and The Journals of Denton Welch, edited and introduced by Michael De-la-Noy) |
reviewed by Oliver Harris (1988)
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John Welch (Out Walking) |
reviewed by Robert Sheppard (1985)
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John Welch (Blood and Dreams and Erasures) |
reviewed by James Keery (1994)
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John Welch (Greeting Want) |
reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (2000)
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John Welch (Collected Poems) |
reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (2009)
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Robert Welch (Muskerry) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1992)
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G.A. Wells (The origin of language: aspects of the discussion from Condillac to Wundt) |
reviewed by Kenneth Cox (1989)
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Robert Wells (The Winter's Task) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1979)
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Robert Wells (Lusus) |
reviewed by Ian Pople (1999)
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Matthew Welton (We needed coffee but...) |
reviewed by Alex Wylie (2011)
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Albert Wendt (Shaman of Visions) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1986)
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Donald Wesling (The Chances of Rhyme: Device and Modernity) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1982)
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Donald Wesling (The New Poetries: Poetic Form since Coleridge and Wordsworth) |
reviewed by Lawrence Coupe (1987)
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Donald Wesling (Literary Voice: The Calling of Jonah) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1996)
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Michael Westlake (51 Soko) |
reviewed by Mike Sowerby (1991)
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Daniel Westover (R.S. Thomas: A Stylistic Biographay) |
reviewed by Sam Adams (2012)
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David Wevill (Collected Earlier Poems and Collected Later Poems) |
reviewed by Ian Pople (2023)
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David Wheatley (Contemporary British Poetry (Readersâ Guides to Essential Criticism)) |
reviewed by Peter Riley (2015)
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Susan Wheeler (Assorted Poems) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2013)
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Susan Wheeler (Meme) |
reviewed by Lucy Sheerman (2014)
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Peter Whigham (The Poems of Meleager, A Bilingual Edition, verse translations by Peter Whigham, introduction and literal translations by Peter Jay) |
reviewed by Michael Vince (1978)
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Peter Whigham (Letter to Juvenal: 101 epigrams from Martial, with an introduction by J. P. Sullivan ) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1987)
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Kenneth White (Open World: The Collected Poems, 1960-2000) |
reviewed by David Kinloch (2004)
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Landeg White (The View From The Stockade) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1992)
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Christiania Whitehead (The Garden of Slender Trust) |
reviewed by Kate Price (2000)
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Bruce Whiteman (The Invisible World is in Decline, Books II-IV) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1991)
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Clifton Whiten (One Poem: Poems Selected and New) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1990)
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John Whitworth (Unhistorical Fragments) |
reviewed by Michael Vince (1981)
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John Whitworth (Poor Butterflies) |
reviewed by Ian McMillan (1983)
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John Whitworth (Tennis and Sex and Death ) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1990)
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John Whitworth (Making Love to Marilyn Monroe: The Faber Book of Blue Verse, edited by John Whitworth) |
reviewed by Barry Wood (2007)
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Michael H. Whitworth (Einstein's Wake) |
reviewed by Kate Price (2002)
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Christopher Whyte (Bho Leabhar-Latha Maria Malibran) |
reviewed by Mark Ryan Smith (2010)
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Susan Wicks (Singing Under Water) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
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Susan Wicks (Driving My Father and The Key) |
reviewed by Vona Groarke (1997)
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Susan Wicks (The Clever Daughter) |
reviewed by Caroline Sylge (1997)
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Anna Wigley (Dürer's Hare) |
reviewed by Julie Mullaney (2006)
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Menno Wigman (The World by Evening) |
reviewed by Ian Seed (2021)
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Richard Wilbur (New and Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Eavan Boland (1990)
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Richard Wilbur (Mayflies. New Poems and Translations) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2000)
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Richard Wilbur (Richard Wilbur in conversation with Peter Dale, Between the Lines) |
reviewed by N.S. Thompson (2002)
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Richard Wilbur (Collected Poems 1943 - 2004) |
reviewed by Tony Roberts (2006)
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Oscar Wilde (Oscar Wilde and others, Teleny, edited and with an introduction by John McRae ) |
reviewed by Roger Cardinal (1988)
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David G. Wilkins (Donatello) |
reviewed by George Steiner (1985)
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Ben Wilkinson (For Real) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2015)
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John Wilkinson (Bones of Contention) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1991)
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John Wilkinson (Down to Earth) |
reviewed by Val Nolan (2009)
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John Wilkinson (Lyric in Its Times and My Reef My Manifest Array) |
reviewed by Ian Brinton (2019)
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Judith Wilkinson (Canyon Journey) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
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John Willett (Brecht in Context: Comparative Approaches) | reviewed by Michael Hamburger (1984) |
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C.K. Williams (A Dream of Mind) |
reviewed by Richard Francis (1993)
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C.K. Williams (Repair) |
reviewed by Jem Poster (2000)
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C.K. Williams (Repair) |
reviewed by Ian Tromp (2000)
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C.K. Williams (The Singing) |
reviewed by Kate Price (2004)
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C.K. Williams (Collected Poems) |
reviewed by Roger Caldwell (2007)
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C.K. Williams (Wait) |
reviewed by Charlie Cocksedge (2011)
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C.K. Williams (Falling Ill) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2017)
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Francis Williams (Flotsam) |
reviewed by Jeremy Hooker (1989)
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Francis Williams (Wild Blue) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (2000)
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Hugo Williams (Writing Home) |
reviewed by Peter Levi (1986)
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Hugo Williams (Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Andrew Waterman (1989)
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Hugo Williams (Self-Portrait With a Slide) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1992)
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Hugo Williams (Dock Leaves) |
reviewed by Keith Silver (1995)
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Hugo Williams (Dock Leaves) |
reviewed by Fenella Copplestone (1995)
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Hugo Williams (Freelancing: Adventures of a Poet) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (1996)
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Hugo Williams (Billy's Rain) |
reviewed by Anthony Howell (2000)
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Hugo Williams (Lines Off) |
reviewed by Maitreyabandhu (2020)
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John Hartley Williams (Bright River Yonder) |
reviewed by Neil Powell (1989)
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John Hartley Williams (The Ship) |
reviewed by Nick Telfer (2008)
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John Hartley Williams (Assault on the Clouds) |
reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (2013)
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Miller Williams (Distractions ) |
reviewed by Dick Davis (1982)
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Patrick Williams (Trails) |
reviewed by Ian McMillan (1982)
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Raymond Williams (Marxism and Literature) |
reviewed by Paul Edwards (1979)
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Raymond Williams (Loyalties) |
reviewed by Mike Westlake (1986)
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Rhian Williams (The Poetry Toolkit: The Essential Guide to Studying Poetry) |
reviewed by John Lyon (2009)
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Rowan Williams (Resurrection: Interpreting the Easter Gospel, The Poems of Rowan Williams, and Writing in the Dust: Reflections on 11th September and its Aftermath) |
reviewed by W.S. Milne (2004)
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Rowan Williams (Headwaters) | reviewed by Rachel Mann (2011) |
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Claire Williamson (Visiting the Minotaur) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2019)
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Henry Williamson (The Man, The Writings. Brocard Sewell) |
reviewed by Glen Cavaliero (1981)
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Margaret Williamson (Sappho's Immortal Daughters) |
reviewed by Felicity Rosslyn (1996)
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Elizabeth Willis (Meteoric Flowers) |
reviewed by Nick Telfer (2006)
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Emily Wills (Unmapped) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
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Jackie Wills (Fever Tree) |
reviewed by Kate Keogan (2004)
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Clive Wilmer | reviewed by Thom Gunn (1983) |
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Clive Wilmer (Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Peter Carpenter (1996)
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Clive Wilmer (The Falls) |
reviewed by Jem Poster (2001)
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Clive Wilmer (New and Collected Poems) |
reviewed by Jem Poster (2012)
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Eleanor Wilner (Otherwise) |
reviewed by Richard Francis (1994)
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A.N. Wilson (The Life of John Milton) |
reviewed by Timothy Harris (1983)
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David Wilson (Slope) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)
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Elizabeth Wilson (Prisons of Glass) |
reviewed by Elizabeth Baines (1987)
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Emily Wilson (The Odyssey) |
reviewed by Evan Jones (2018)
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Frances Wilson (Rearranging the Sky) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2005)
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Gregory Warren Wilson (Jeopardy) |
reviewed by Rachel Elliot (2003)
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Janet Wilson (Fleur Adcock) |
reviewed by Julian Stannard (2009)
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Christian Wiman (Hard Night) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2006)
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Sarah Wimbush (Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands) |
reviewed by Joey Connolly (2023)
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Alison Winch (Trouble) |
reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)
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Alison Winch (Darling, Itâs Me) |
reviewed by Jonathan Catherall (2020)
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Sheila Wingfield (Collected Poems) |
reviewed by Chris McCully (1985)
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Ron Winkler (Fragmented Waters, trans. Jake Schneider) |
reviewed by Ian Seed (2018)
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Caspar Wintermans (Alfred Douglas: A Poet's Life and his Finest Work) |
reviewed by Rachel Martin (2007)
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Jeanette Winterson (Weight) |
reviewed by Lawrence Coupe (2006)
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Hubert Witheford (A Blue Monkey for the Tomb) |
reviewed by Michael Hulse (1994)
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Jane Wodening (from The Book of Legends) |
reviewed by Charles Tomlinson (1994)
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Alex Wong (Poems Without Irony) |
reviewed by Peter Scupham (2017)
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Cyril Wong (Infinity Diary) | reviewed by Jee Leong Koh (2021) |
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Gregory Woods (We Have the Melon) |
reviewed by James Kirkup (1993)
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Gregory Woods (The District Commissioner's Dreams) |
reviewed by David Kinloch (2003)
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Gregory Woods (Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World) |
reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2016)
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Gerard Woodward (Householder) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1991)
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Gerard Woodward (Householder) |
reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1992)
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David Woolley (Hepworth: a celebration, edited by David Woolley) |
reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)
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William Wootten (The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter) |
reviewed by Michael Daniels (2017)
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Dorothy Wordsworth (Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland (1803)) |
reviewed by Elisabeth Russell Taylor (1994)
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Jessica Wordsworth (The New Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry edited by Jonathan and Jessica Wordsworth) |
reviewed by Duncan Wu (2002)
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Jonathon Wordsworth (The New Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry edited by Jonathan and Jessica Wordsworth) |
reviewed by Duncan Wu (2002)
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C.D. Wright (Casting Deep Shade) |
reviewed by Valerie Duff (2019)
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Charles Wright (Chickamauga) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (1996)
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Charles Wright (Scar Tissue) |
reviewed by James O'Connor (2007)
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Charles Wright (Oblivion Banjo) |
reviewed by M.C. Caseley (2020)
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David Wright (Metrical Observations) | reviewed by Jonathan Barker (1982) |
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David Wright (Selected Poems) |
reviewed by Dennis Keene (1990)
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Franz Wright (Walking to Martha's Vineyard) |
reviewed by David C. Ward (2005)
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James Wright (To a blossoming pear tree ) |
reviewed by John Pilling (1980)
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James Wright (This Journey) |
reviewed by Dennis Keene (1983)
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Judith Wright (Australian Bibliographies and The Cry of the Dead) |
reviewed by Peter Levi (1983)
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Judith Wright (Phantom Dwelling ) |
reviewed by Ruth Morse (1987)
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Kit Wright (Bump-Starting the Hearse) |
reviewed by Steven Tuohy (1984)
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Kit Wright (Hoping It Might Be So) |
reviewed by Sophie Hannah (2001)
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Lynne Wycherley (At The Edge of Light) |
reviewed by Vivienne Neale (2004)
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Adam Wyeth (The Art of Dying) |
reviewed by Tara Bergin (2018)
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