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EDITORIAL

Dark Horse History
(Issue 9/10, Summer 2000)

POEMS

Andrew Hudgins
Poem: Subject Matter
(Issue 5, Summer 1997)

Kirkpatrick Dobie
Four Poems
(Issue 9/10, Summer 2000)

James Robertson
Two Poems
(Issue 12/13, Winter 2001-2002)

Marcia Menter
Poem: The Secret Saline Society
(Issue 12/13, Winter 2001-2002)

Bill Coyle
Two Poems
(Issue 12/13, Winter 2001-2002)

Gabriella Mirollo
Poem: Free Clinic
(Issue 12/13, Winter 2001-2002)

Chris Powici
Poem: The Town
(Issue 12/13, Winter 2001-2002)

James McGonigal
A version of Horace's 'Aequam memento rebus in arduis'
&
Raise Your Hats, Gentlemen

(Issue 15, Summer 2003)

Gael Turnbull
Poem: Do You
(Issue 15, Summer 2003)

Jon Mooallem
Poem: Fanny Meow-Meow's, "A Place For Beverage and Breasts"
(Issue 15, Summer 2003)

Anne Sheldon
Poem: Monday Morning
(Issue 15, Summer 2003)

newCatherine Tufariello
Poem: Two Trees

Laura Sheahen
Poem: Nomad
(Issue 16, Spring 2004)


INTERVIEWS

Edwin Morgan in Conversation
(Issue 5, Summer 1997)

Iain Crichton Smith at 70
(Issue 6, Spring 1998)

Douglas Dunn in Conversation
(Issue 8, Autumn 1999)

Anne Stevenson in Conversation
(Issue 9/10, Summer 2000)

Timothy Murphy in Conversation
(Issue 9/10, Summer 2000)

Philip Hobsbaum in Conversation
(Issue 14, Summer 2002)

ESSAYS

Peter Dale
The State of Modernism
(Issue 5, Summer 1997)

Laurence Lerner
The History of a Poem
(Issue 5, Summer 1997)

Timothy Murphy
Reminiscences of Robert Penn Warren
(Issue 6, Spring 1998)

Philip Hobsbaum
Ted Hughes at Cambridge
(Issue 8, Autumn 1999)

Alasdair D. F. Macrae
Remembering Iain Crichton Smith
(Issue 8, Autumn 1999)

Mark Halliday
Moose Failure
(Issue 9/10, Summer 2000)

Anne Stevenson
Poetry and the Planet: Anne Stevenson on Jonathan Bate
(Issue 12/13, Winter 2001-2002)

Carl Wilmore
Retrospectives: Robert Frost in 1916
(Issue 12/13, Winter 2001-2002)

James McGonigal
Coming Out Teaching: Philip Hobsbaum in the 1960s
(Issue 14, Summer 2002)

Seamus Heaney
The Shining Streams: A Tribute to MacDiarmid
(Issue 15, Summer 2003)

Philip Hobsbaum
The Redgrove Momentum: 1952-2003
(Issue 15, Summer 2003)

James Aitchison
Not One Reader in Ten Million: Obscurity in Poetry
(Issue 15, Summer 2003)

Philip Hobsbaum
Poetry Dying?
(Issue 16, Spring 2004)

Diana Hendry
Ian Hamilton's Oblivion and the Poet
(Issue 16, Spring 2004)

Gerry Cambridge
Retrospective: A Note on Jones Very
(Issue 16, Spring 2004)

REVIEWS

James Aitchison
On the Laws of the Poetic Art by Anthony Hecht
(Issue 5, Summer 1997)

John Lucas
REBEL ANGELS: 25 Poets of the New Formalism, ed. Mark Jarman and David Mason)
(Issue 5, Summer 1997)

X. J. Kennedy
Notes Left Behind: Last and Selected Poems by James Hayford
(Issue 8, Autumn 1999)

Helena Nelson
After New Formalism: Poets on Form, Narrative and Tradition, ed. Annie Finch
(Issue 9/10, Summer 2000)

John Lucas
The Nightfisherman: Selected Letters of W. S. Graham, ed. Michael and Margaret Snow
(Issue 11, Spring 2001)

X. J. Kennedy
The Donkey's Ears and The Year's Afternoon by Douglas Dunn
(Issue 11, Spring 2001)

David Cameron
Norman Cameron, His Life, Work, and Letters by Warren Hope
(Issue 12/13, Winter 2001-2002)

John Lucas
Dream State: The New Scottish Poets,
2nd edition edited by Donny O'Rourke
(Issue 15, Summer 2003)


Kathleen McDermott
The Art of the Lathe by B. H. Fairchild;
The Lords of Misrule: Poems, 1992-2001 by X. J. Kennedy
Open Slowly: Poems by Kate Light

(Issue 15, Summer 2003)


newKathleen McDermott
On First Books by Gail White, Joseph Harrison,
Matthew Fitt, Wilmer Mills

(Issue 16, Spring 2004)


newGerry Cambridge
On Hugh McMillan
(Issue 16, Spring 2004)