From the March 1994 Issue Will Three Survive? The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry in English By Ian Hamilton (ed)
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From the March 1995 Issue New Selected Spells by the Royal Witch Doctor New Selected Poems 1957-1994 By Ted Hughes LR
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From the November 2007 Issue Love’s Lodgings Lost The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street By Charles Nicholl LR
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From the September 2006 Issue Name: Seemore. Crime: Extreme. Collected Poems 1943–1993 By Martin Seymour-Smith (Edited by Peter Davies) LR
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