
Editor
Fiona Sampson
Poems
Tomaz Salamun 'The Apple', 'One Thousand and One Nights'
John Burnside 'Eleven Gift Songs'
Paul Batchelor 'To Photograph a Snow Crystal'
Vuyelwa Carlin 'Lydia', 'Ellen'
Gwyneth Lewis 'Happy Flamenco'
Jackie Wills 'The Birds Sing About Water'
John F. Deane 'Tracks', 'Threads'
Marie-Claire Bancquart from 'Paris Plainchant '
Sean O'Brien 'A Little Place They Know', 'A Coffin-Boat'
Tim Liardet 'Loy's Return'
Immanuel Mifsud 'I'd Dreamt This Dream Already'
Ruth Fainlight 'Almost Immortality'
Robert Saxton 'Glow-worms'
Pascale Petit 'The Hudson Remembers'
Pauline Stainer 'The Convoy ', 'Ghost Writers to the Emperor'
'Mantegna's Hares'
Tara Bergin 'Dancing'
C. K. Williams 'Plums'
Conversation: Odia Ofeimun and Ismail Bala Garba
Odia Ofeimun 'After the Coup' , 'Teargas and Gun Smoke'
'Creativity'
Ismail Bala Garba 'Where We Come From', 'Skill', 'After and Before'
Ziba Karbassi 'Blood-home Dance'
Matthew Sweeney 'The Sweatmark'
Tobias Hill 'The Nightworkers'
John Stammers 'Ten'
Daljit Nagra 'Father to Father'
Marzanna Bogumila Kielar '
how close you are'
Stephen Watts 'I Drove the Sheep Down from the Mountains'
Centrefold
John Burnside Travelling into the Quotidian: Allison Funk's 'Heartland' poems
Henry Shukman Silent in Darien: The San Blas Islands, Panama
Reviews
Alison Brackenbury on Glyn Maxwell and Nick Laird
David Herd on Christoper Logue
Douglas Houston on Sean Rafferty, John Stammers and Tony Hoagland Steven Matthews on Derek Walcott
Peter Forbes on U. A. Fanthorpe
Michael Murphy on Peter Porter and Dennis O'Driscoll
Vicki Bertram on Jackie Kay, Carole Satyamurti and Moniza Alvi
Janet Phillips on Carol Rumens and David Constantine
Debjani Chatterjee on E. Powys Mathers, Agha Shahid Ali, Amir Or, and Yannis Kondos
Lucy English on Aisle 16
Endpapers
Christopher Merrill Letter from Iowa
Jackie Kay
Julia Darling
PR Jukebox
Young Soviet Poets
Editorial
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