NEW, Nov 08: Judy Gahagan on Nature and place)

   Alice Beer — Close reading by Michael Laskey:
              "So You Want to be a Potter?"

     Interview:  "Listening to her talent blossom", Catherine Etoe interviews Beata Duncan

    Judy Gahagan — Article: "Claiming the Poetry Heartlands"

 Donald Gardner —  "Cutting Losses: Translating Remco Campert"  (Note: article now removed due to expiry of copyright permission)

   David Hart — Article:   "meaning meaning" 

    Moira Merryweather — Article on poet "Virginia Warbey"

    Moira Merryweather — A Challenge:  argue the point
                "Is poetry JUST another form of therapy?"  

Angela Dove responds

and a very short but passionate response from
Rebecca Agbesin:

"I THINK SO!!! IT makes me feel a lot better if I need to express myself or get something off my chest I write poetry its theraputic and always feel a sense of release!!!"

   William Oxley — Article:  
                 "Ian Caws:  A Mystical Elegance of Form" 

    Peter Phillips — Interview by Bridget Galton:
                "Centenary Verse for the Suburb"

    Margaret Speak — Reviews: "Derek Walcott: Selected Poems", Edward Baugh; "Glad of These Times", Helen Dunmore; "Stitching the Dark", Carole Satyamurti

    Tony Turner — Article:  "Michael Norman (1923 - 2003)"