features:  

    Article:   "Virginia Warbey" Moira Clark

    Article:   "Claiming the Poetry Heartlands" Judy Gahagan

   Article:   "meaning meaning" David Hart

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

    Article:  "Micheal Norman (1923 - 2003)", Tony Turner

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

    Interview:  "Centenary Verse for the Suburb", Bridget Galton interviews Peter Phillips

    Challenge:  argue the point - "Is poetry JUST another form of therapy?"  Moira Clark is asking and wants your response...

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!!!"

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

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