October 2023 Issue David Wheatley Burdens of a Nobel Laureate The Letters of Seamus Heaney By Christopher Reid (ed) LR
March 2021 Issue Andrew McMillan Confessions of a New Elizabethan The Letters of Thom Gunn By Michael Nott, August Kleinzahler & Clive Wilmer (edd)
December 2020 Issue David Wheatley Poet of Procrastination The Selected Letters of John Berryman By Philip Coleman & Calista McRae (edd) LR
October 2018 Issue Sally Bayley Plath’s Passions The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II: 1956–1963 By Peter K Steinberg & Karen V Kukil (edd) LR
December 2016 Issue George Szirtes Poet in the Making The Alien in the Chapel: Ferenc Békássy, Rupert Brooke's Unknown Rival - Poems and Letters By George Gömöri & Mari Gömöri (ed) LR
May 2008 Issue Elspeth Barker A Mouse on the Jasmine Diaries, Letters and Recollections By Lynette Roberts (Edited by Patrick McGuinness) LR
December 2007 Issue Alan Brownjohn How the Poet Became Letters of Ted Hughes By Christopher Reid (ed) LR
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