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February 1979

 
  • Dannie Abse
  • Edwin Brock
  • Michael Cameron
  • Donald Hall
  • Michael Hamburger
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Table of Contents

  • Sandra McPherson
    • Corresponding
    • Writing to a Prisoner
    • He, like Everyone
    • Veteran
    • The Clown
  • Michael Cameron
    • February
  • Dannie Abse
    • X Ray
    • Pantomime Diseases
    • The Power of Prayer
    • Last Words
  • Lawrence Raab
    • Familiar Landscapes
    • Disappointment
    • You Would Know
    • The Rest
    • The Room
    • The Window
  • William Scammell
    • Aunt Jenny
    • Night Piece
    • High Summer
    • St. Bees in Winter
    • Above Thirlmere
  • Henry Petroski
    • Professor Z Introduces Professor A
  • Donald Hall
    • For an Early Retirement
    • Adultery at Forty
    • Apology for Old Clothes
    • Poem Beginning with a Line of Wittgenstein
  • Edwin Brock
    • To His Love in Middle-Age
    • Holy Cow
  • Michael Hamburger
    • Variations: In Suffolk
  • James Wright
    • Your Name in Arezzo
    • Sheep in the Rain
    • A Flower Passage
Comment
  • John Peck
    • R. P. Blackmur, Romanticism, and Poetic Language
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  • Dannie Abse
  • Edwin Brock
  • Michael Cameron
  • Donald Hall
  • Michael Hamburger
  • Sandra McPherson
  • John Peck
  • Henry Petroski
  • Lawrence Raab
  • William Scammell
  • James Wright
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