December 2023 Issue Rowan Williams The Poet’s Burden On Czesław Miłosz: Visions from the Other Europe By Eva Hoffman
April 2021 Issue Joanna Kavenna She Hated Poetry Readings This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew By Julia Copus
September 2002 Issue Thomas Hodgkinson He Was Not a Coward Wilfred Owen: A New Biography By Dominic Hibberd LR
August 2018 Issue John Sutherland The Hazards of his Love-Bed Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to 'Good-bye to All That' (1895–1929) By Jean Moorcroft Wilson
December 1999 Issue Jeremy Lewis Case History of a Literary Groupie Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism By David Lemming
April 2017 Issue Donald Rayfield Witness to a Century Miłosz: A Biography By Andrzej Franaszek (Edited & translated by Aleksandra & Michael Parker)
February 2017 Issue Robert Crawford Voice from the Asylum The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics and Madness of Ezra Pound By Daniel Swift
December 1989 Issue Florence O’Donoghue Let the Fools Rage Yeats the European By A Norman Jeffares (ed) LR
May 2003 Issue Peter Washington War Made Him Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches - A Biography (1918-1967) By Jean Moorcroft Wilson LR
October 2003 Issue Brenda Maddox Yeats The Protestant W B Yeats: A Life, Vol II- The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 By R F Foster LR
June 2004 Issue Jeremy Lewis The Clownish Poet Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography By John Sutherland LR
October 2004 Issue Allan Massie Less of the Tiresome Teddy Betjeman: The Bonus of Laughter By Bevis Hillier LR
February 2015 Issue Seamus Perry Possum Emerges Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land By Robert Crawford The Letters of T S Eliot: Volume 5, 1930–1931 By Valerie Eliot & John Haffenden (edd)
September 2014 Issue Matthew Sperling Good, Bad & Ugly Ezra Pound: Poet – A Portrait of the Man and His Work, Volume II, The Epic Years 1921–1939 By A David Moody LR
May 2009 Issue Peter McDonald Faces in the Crowd The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, H D and the Imagists By Helen Carr
October 2007 Issue Peter McDonald Red-Headed Rebel Ezra Pound: Poet I – The Young Genius, 1885–1920 By A David Moody LR
April 2006 Issue Andro Linklater Orkney’s Laureate The Life of George Mackay Brown: Through the Eye of a Needle By Maggie Fergusson LR
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