Life as It Comes by Anthony Edkins (Bradford: Redbeck Press, 2002) ISBN 0946980969 £6.95
The Soldier on the Pier by Brian Waltham (Calstock: Peterloo Poets, 2002) ISBN 1871471990 £7.95
Craeft: Poems from the Anglo-Saxon by Graham Holderness (Nottingham: Shoestring Press, 2002) ISBN 1899549676 £7.50
The Great Friend and Other Translated Poems by Peter Robinson (Tonbridge: Worple Press, 2002) ISBN 095394774 £8
For Ivor Gurney nothing came easily. ‘The price of almost anything that one desires worthily’, he wrote from France in 1917, ‘is only Pain … long ago I decided that to accomplish what I wish was worth a great deal of pain and was ready to undergo it’. ‘We Who Praise Poets’ suggests that the poet may expect no praise from his contemporaries, and his worth is only to be measured against the ‘great trees’ of past poetry, ‘the able and the mighty dead’: in effect, those dead are envisaged as pronouncing the verdict on his achievement.
Noctua by Peter Bennet (Nottingham: Shoestring Press, 2004), ISBN 1-904886-03-5, £5.00
Blue on Blue by Jim Greenhalf (Bradford: Redbeck Press, 2005), ISBN 1-904338-30-5, £7.95
What Moves Moves by Paul McLoughlin (Nottingham: Shoestring Press, 2004), ISBN 1-904886-05-1, £5.00
W.S. Graham: Speaking Towards You edited by Ralph Pite and Hester Jones (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2004), ISBN 0-853235-69-4, £45.00
Painting the Town HUGH UNDERHILL
‘Twelfth Night’ Rehearsal of a String Quartet: St. Gregory’s, once a Church JEREMY ROWE
The Fox and The Crow MICHAEL MURPHY
The Gift
Snowdrops Clouds It might as well be Saturday
Riding the Trans-Australian
Scyld’s Funeral (from Beowulf) 597
Treblinka RICHARD GODDEN
Life Slips By A Lake’s Progress HUGH UNDERHILL
Golconda ANDREW SANT
The Gift The Trespasser ADRIAN CAESAR
For MJB Wherever This May Find Him MICHAEL BARTHOLOMEW-BIGGS
Surprise: St Paul’s PETER DE VILLE
Thirty Two Poems in the Style of Simon Armitage Personality Fuel RENNIE PARKER
Still Life JOHN WESTON
The Poet of Dluga Street DERRICK BUTTRESS
The Undertaking Final Duty SUE DYMOKE
Meditation on Parliament House, Canberra TIM THORNE
An Analysis of his Portrait K.F. PEARSON
Reduced MICHAEL BARTHOLOMEW-BIGGS
Township Historian HUGH UNDERHILL
St Thomas Aquinas in MacNeice’s House, September 23rd, 1957
In an Australian Garden
Red Wine and Yellow Sun
For a Cornet Player, Retired
The Altar of the Motherland (trans.: Andreas Kalvos)
Looking at Pictures
Street Flowers
Fats
Oxford
The Puppy of Heaven
The Island Market
More Friggers for John: 22: Convict Tokens 1815-1840; 23: Trench Art 1914-1918
Only Connect
Self Improvement
Taking the Hexameter a Walk – a letter to John Lucas
From ‘The Riverside’
A Ballad for Apothecaries, Being a Poem to Honour the Memory of Nicholas Culpeper, Gent …
The Aisles
Sails
Aegina
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