November 2024 Issue Nicholas McDowell Awake, Arise, or Be Forever Fallen What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost By Orlando Reade
December 2023 Issue Rowan Williams The Poet’s Burden On Czesław Miłosz: Visions from the Other Europe By Eva Hoffman
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April 2021 Issue Joanna Kavenna She Hated Poetry Readings This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew By Julia Copus
March 1995 Issue David Utterson Privacy Was an Obsession Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography By Gary Fountain and Peter Brazeau LR
September 2002 Issue Thomas Hodgkinson He Was Not a Coward Wilfred Owen: A New Biography By Dominic Hibberd LR
June 1982 Issue M R D Foot Another King Alfred The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson Vol 1 1821-1850 By Cecil Y Lang and Edgar F Shannon, Jr (ed) LR
May 1991 Issue Michael Thorn Pierce Me, Probe Me Learning not to be First: The Life of Christina Rossetti By Kathleen Jones
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
April 1998 Issue Nicholas Murray Rare Case of a Poet who Doubted His Own Genius A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold By Ian Hamilton LR
December 1999 Issue Jeremy Lewis Case History of a Literary Groupie Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism By David Lemming
September 2000 Issue Charles Nicholl Short, Fierce Life of a Homicidal Cupid Rimbaud By Graham Robb LR
April 2017 Issue Donald Rayfield Witness to a Century Miłosz: A Biography By Andrzej Franaszek (Edited & translated by Aleksandra & Michael Parker)
November 1993 Issue Sylvia Clayton Blake’s Progress Witness against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law By E P Thompson LR
February 2017 Issue Robert Crawford Voice from the Asylum The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics and Madness of Ezra Pound By Daniel Swift
July 2016 Issue Seamus Perry What Lies Beneath Housman Country: Into the Heart of England By Peter Parker
December 1989 Issue Florence O’Donoghue Let the Fools Rage Yeats the European By A Norman Jeffares (ed) LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
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