PN Review 220

Volume 41 Number 2 November - December 2014 Out of Stock
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Inside Front Cover

Pictures from a Library 17: George Cumberland Stella Halkyard

Inside Back Cover

Vestiges 11: William Wordsworth Adam Crothers

Editorial

News & Notes

Letters

Reports

Reading Dante’s Inferno in Port of Spain Vahni Capildeo

The Weather in Tokyo Paul Rossiter

Letter from Wales Sam Adams

Gamini Salgado Revisited Vidyan Ravinthiran

From a White Notebook (1) Frank Kuppner

Poetry

‘Noctilucent’ and Other Poems Judith Willson

A Letter to the Dead Lynette Roberts

‘Daphne’ and Other Poems Amanda Jernigan

Letter to an Elderly Poet’ and Other Poems Miles Burrows

‘Late Hour’ and Other Poems Paul Deaton

Epigrams translated by Brent Southgate Martial

Three Sketches of Cynthia translated by Patrick Worsnip Propertius

Interlude: Visionary Anger translated by Andrew Rubens and Henry King Benjamin Fondane

Two Poems James McGrath

‘Souvenir’ and Other Poems Joseph Minden

THE POLAR MUSE following p.32 with contributions from Lucy Hamilton, Sarah Howe, Rod Mengham, Drew Milne, redell Olsen, Andrea Porter, Lucy Sheerman, Rebecca Watts

INTRODUCTION

from THE DIARISTS Lucy Hamilton

THE INSTRUCTION OF CAPTAIN SCOTT Sarah Howe

OCCASIONAL INUIT Rod Mengham

i. WHITEOUT FILM FOR SNOW-GOGGLES Redell Olsen

ii. WHITEOUT FILM FOR SNOW-GOGGLES (LANDSCAPES) Redell Olsen

EXTRAPOLATED OBSERVATIONS AT THE SCOTT POLAR MUSEUM Lucy Sheerman

SOME MERGING AND SIMPLICATIONS OF THE GROUND COVER CLASSES Lucy Sheerman

INUA Andrea Porter

EMPEROR PENGUIN (THE POLAR MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE) Rebecca Watts

ANTARCTICA Rebecca Watts

REINDEER LICHEN Drew Milne

BIOGRAPHIES

IMAGES

Articles

More Than One View of Somewhere in Central Ukraine Horatio Morpurgo

Lynette Roberts and Dylan Thomas: Background to a Friendship Charles Mundye

Tomas Tranströmer: Schubert’s Ghost Gerry McGrath

Notes on Being My Own Bibliographer Aram Saroyan

Alessandro Spina’s Libyan Epic André Naffis-Sahely

Reviews

on Owen Sheers, Andrew Motion and Tom Paulin Roger Garfitt

on Maurice Riordan Rebecca Watts

on Niall Campbell Neil Powell

on Ilya Kaminsky Gerry McGrath

on Jenny Lewis Maya C. Popa

on Peter Gizzi Ben Hickman

on pamphlets by Derrick Buttress, Jay Ramsay, Tom Chivers, William Palmer, Christine De Luca Alison Brackenbury

on John Redmond’s Poetry and Privacy David Spittle

Buttercup Festival

Buttercup Festival David Troupes

A CELEBRATION OF EAVAN BOLAND
Edited by Jody Allen Randolph and Michael Schmidt
with contributions from

Introduction Jody Allen Randolph

A Woman Without a Country Eavan Boland

A Woman Without a Country: A Detail Eavan Boland

Reading Eavan Sapphire

‘You are dear and stand beside me’: Sappho’s Blessing and Sappho’s Charge Mark Doty

On ‘Making Money’ Paula Meehan

Greenish Silks: Reading Eavan Boland’s ‘Silenced’ Tara Bergin

Dictions and Discoveries Colm Tóibín

A Road to Poetry: Eavan Boland Maps the Body Politic David C. Ward

Domestic Interior Joan McBreen

Eavan Boland’s Daring Integrity: A Quick Glance at the Poet’s Context Thomas McCarthy

The Lost Land Rita Ann Higgins

Language as Truth Serum in Eavan Boland’s ‘The Oral Tradition’ Yusef Komunyakaa

Eavan Boland, the Good Manager Theo Dorgan

Expressing the Source: Eavan Boland and Adrienne Rich Máighréad Medbh

'Making Money' Lorna Goodison

Birds and their Masters Medbh McGuckian

Library Hours Gabrielle Calvocoressi

The Other Eavan Boland Jee Leong Koh

The Books We Hold More Closely to Us Elline Lipkin

‘Quarantine’ Linda Gregerson

In the Suburbs of Modernism Sandra M. Gilbert

A Conversation with Eavan Boland Shara McCallum

Cover: Cover image: a portrait of Eavan Boland as a child, by her mother, the painter Frances Kelly (1908–2002).