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PN Review 232

Volume 43 Number 2 November - December 2016

Alec Finlay, A Variety of Cultures: An Orchard of Apples & Plums, Jupiter Artland, 2016. Oak ladders for an orchard of native apples and plums. The ladders anticipate the eventual height of the pruned canopies, and a time when visitors will be able to climb amid the fruit and blossom. Photograph: Ruth Clark.
An accompanying book is available from Jupiter Artland.

INSIDE FRONT COVER

Pictures from a Library Stella Halkyard

Editorial

News & Notes

Letters

Poems

Drawing Lessons Jeffrey Wainwright

The Cabin Boy’ & Other Poems Gabriella Attems

Later Emperors Evan Jones

‘The Starfish’ & Other Poems Isabel Galleymore

Two Poems Mary Noonan

Biographia Literaria David Wheatley

Two Poems Tara Bergin

Two Poems Caroline Bird

‘The People on the Lawn’ & Other Poems Gerry McGrath

‘The Armchairs’ & Other Poems Vidyan Ravinthiran

Sanctuary Sequence Linda Anderson

Why? Joey Connolly

Apple Quartet Lisa Kelly

‘Caprice for Violin’ & Other Poems Jodie Hollander

Finding Dad Adam Feinstein

‘Who’s She’ & Other Poems Ned Denny

‘That crack...’ & Other Poems Gina Wilson

Reports

Not to Speak a Form of Speaking Vahni Capildeo

Sir Geoffrey Hill Rowan Williams

Letter from Wales Sam Adams

From the Journals R.F. Langley

Letter from the Patent Office P.C. Evans

Caroline West’s ‘Chesil Bank Fall’ Tom Lowenstein

An Unforgettable Series of Journeys on the Glasgow Underground Frank Kuppner

Reading Wordsworth: Two poems from Lyrical Ballads Thomas Kinsella

Features

Again Like a Dream: William Empson’s The Face of the Buddha Mark Thompson

The Book That Ate Itself: Travels in Surrealist New Zealand & Some Remarks on Surrealist Poetry in Britain Gregory O'Brien

Interrogating Shugborough Grevel Lindop

Bruno & the ‘Bonnefidèlien’ (i.m. Yves Bonnefoy) Chris Miller

Reviews

on Nikki Skillman Nicolas Tredell

on Helen Thaventhiran Mark Thompson

on Nicholas Barker Grant Shipcott

on The Poems of T. S. Eliot Matthew Creasy

on Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Lars Gustafsson Ross Cogan

on Jamie McKendrick and Derek Mahon David Spittle

on Seán Street Kevin J. Gardner

on Peter Makin Timothy Harris

on Sean Ashton Nicolas Tredell

on Ben Lerner David C. Ward

Twelve Pamphlets Alison Brackenbury

INSIDE BACK COVER

From Chetham’s Library Michael Powell

PN Review 232

Volume 43 Number 2 November - December 2016

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	PN Review 232 Volume 43 Number 2 November - December 2016 Alec Finlay, A Variety of Cultures: An Orchard of Apples & Plums, Jupiter Artland, 2016. Oak ladders for an orchard of native apples and plums. The ladders anticipate the eventual height of the pruned canopies, and a time when visitors will be able to climb amid the fruit and blossom. Photograph: Ruth Clark. An accompanying book is available from Jupiter Artland. INSIDE FRONT COVER Pictures from a Library Stella Halkyard Editorial News & Notes Letters Poems Drawing Lessons Jeffrey Wainwright The Cabin Boy’ & Other Poems Gabriella Attems Later Emperors Evan Jones ‘The Starfish’ & Other Poems Isabel Galleymore Two Poems Mary Noonan Biographia Literaria David Wheatley Two Poems Tara Bergin Two Poems Caroline Bird ‘The People on the Lawn’ & Other Poems Gerry McGrath ‘The Armchairs’ & Other Poems Vidyan Ravinthiran Sanctuary Sequence Linda Anderson Why? Joey Connolly Apple Quartet Lisa Kelly ‘Caprice for Violin’ & Other Poems Jodie Hollander Finding Dad Adam Feinstein ‘Who’s She’ & Other Poems Ned Denny ‘That crack...’ & Other Poems Gina Wilson Reports Not to Speak a Form of Speaking Vahni Capildeo Sir Geoffrey Hill Rowan Williams Letter from Wales Sam Adams From the Journals R.F. Langley Letter from the Patent Office P.C. Evans Caroline West’s ‘Chesil Bank Fall’ Tom Lowenstein An Unforgettable Series of Journeys on the Glasgow Underground Frank Kuppner Reading Wordsworth: Two poems from Lyrical Ballads Thomas Kinsella Features Again Like a Dream: William Empson’s The Face of the Buddha Mark Thompson The Book That Ate Itself: Travels in Surrealist New Zealand & Some Remarks on Surrealist Poetry in Britain Gregory O'Brien Interrogating Shugborough Grevel Lindop Bruno & the ‘Bonnefidèlien’ (i.m. Yves Bonnefoy) Chris Miller Reviews on Nikki Skillman Nicolas Tredell on Helen Thaventhiran Mark Thompson on Nicholas Barker Grant Shipcott on The Poems of T. S. Eliot Matthew Creasy on Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Lars Gustafsson Ross Cogan on Jamie McKendrick and Derek Mahon David Spittle on Seán Street Kevin J. Gardner on Peter Makin Timothy Harris on Sean Ashton Nicolas Tredell on Ben Lerner David C. Ward Twelve Pamphlets Alison Brackenbury INSIDE BACK COVER From Chetham’s Library Michael Powell PN Review 232 Volume 43 Number 2 November - December 2016
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