September 2020 Issue Robert Chandler Comrade, Shed No Tears Russia is Burning: Poems of the Great Patriotic War By Maria Bloshteyn (ed) Vasili Tyorkin By Alexander Tvardovsky (Translated from Russian by James Womack) Wait for Me By Konstantin Simonov (Translated from Russian by Mike Munford)
February 1990 Issue Michael De-La-Noy When They Were Young Seeds in the Wind: 20th Century Juvenilia from W B Yeats to Ted Hughes By Neville Braybrooke (ed) LR
February 1985 Issue Craig Raine Stylistic Prohibition The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse By Roger Lonsdale LR
April 2002 Issue Robert Nye We Could Do With A Few More, Monsieur After Shakespeare: An Anthology By John Gross ed. LR
September 1980 Issue Edwin Morgan Poetry – the Place of the Will Poetry Book Society: The First 25 Years 1954–1978 By Eric W White (ed) LR
November 1983 Issue David Profumo Coming Out The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse By Stephen Coote (Ed) Mae West is Dead: Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction By Adam Mars–Jones (Ed) LR
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