Bread and RosesCover of Poetry Review 96:1

(Volume 96, No 1, Spring 2006)

Editor
Fiona Sampson

Poems
W.S.Merwin | Les Murray | Allison Funk | Pascale Petit Gerard Smyth | Ruth Fainlight | John Kinsella | Carole Satyamurti | Mila Haugová | Moniza Alvi | Mark Weiss | Douglas Houston
Yang Lian | Paul Batchelor | Paul Muldoon | Petr Borkovec
Andrew Bailey | Peter Sansom | Robert Crawford | Wayne Burrows
Julian Stannard | Michael Schmidt | Alfred Corn | John Hartley Williams
Amarjit Chandan | Matthew Sweeney | Penelope Shuttle | Robert Crawford | Ioana Ieronim | Myra Schneider

Centrefold
Richard Burns  Dodola & Peperuda: Balkan Rainmaking Customs
Yang Lian  A Wild Goose Speaks To Me
Kitty Sullivan Priora

Reviews
David Morley on Carol Ann Duffy and Gwyneth Lewis
Matthew Jarvis on John Kinsella
Steven Matthews on Lynette Roberts
Alison Brackenbury on John F. Deane
Helen Farish on Sharon Olds
Debjani Chatterjee on poetry from Ireland, Norway, Poland and Russia
Daniel Weissbort on Ted Hughes's writing for children
Simon Smith on Kenneth Koch
Helena Nelson on Clare Pollard and Jane Duran

Endpapers
Magdalena Horvat  Letter from Skopje
Jane Holland Deciphering The Rejection Letter
PR Jukebox

Editorial
Kit Fan Reading Thom Gunn's Notebooks At The Bancroft Library National Poetry Competition
Melanie Drane 'The Year The Rice-Crop Failed'
Dominic McLoughlin 'I Do Wish Someone Would Ask Me To The Races With Him/Her'
Kevin Saving 'Dog Otter'