Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry

by Tuma, Keith

• ISBN13: 9780195128949
• ISBN10: 019512894X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Presenting a wide-ranging selection of vital twentieth-century work, Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry contains more than 450 poems by 126 poets, beginning with Thomas Hardy and Gerard Manley Hopkins and ending with Catherine Walsh and Helen Macdonald. It features ampleselections from canonical poets including W.H. Auden, Basil Bunting, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, D.H. Lawrence, Charlotte Mew, Hugh MacDiarmid, Wilfred Owen, Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith, Dylan Thomas, Edward Thomas, and W.B. Yeats. At the same time, this volume challengesreceived accounts of modern and contemporary British and Irish poetry by presenting work from many poets--including Mary Butts, Brian Coffey, Nancy Cunard, Elizabeth Daryush, Ivor Gurney, F.R. Higgins, Mina Loy, Thomas MacGreevy, Joseph Gordon Macleod, Charles Madge, Clere Parsons, Lynette Roberts,John Rodker, and Sylvia Townsend Warner--who have never before been represented in this type of collection. Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry covers many groups and movements--from the Georgians to the poets of the New Apocalypse and the Auden group and from the Movement to the New Generation--paying special attention to neglected modernist traditions. It presents a range ofpost-World War II exploratory poetry by writers including Tom Leonard, Tom Raworth, John Riley, and Maggie O'Sullivan alongside the work of more established figures like Thom Gunn, Tony Harrison, Paul Muldoon, and Craig Raine. It includes poetry by "Black British" writers including James Berry, Jean"Binta" Breeze, David Dabydeen, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jackie Kay, E.A. Markham, and Grace Nichols, and feminist poetry by Fleur Adcock, Caroline Bergvall, Eavan Boland, Carol Ann Duffy, Denise Riley, Anna Wickham, and others. It also provides the complete texts or substantial excerpts of severalimportant long poems. All of the poems are newly and thoroughly annotated, many for the first time. Each poet's selection begins with a critical introduction providing biographical and bibliographical information along with critical commentary. Ideal for general readers and for courses in modern andcontemporary British and Irish poetry and literature, this anthology provides an unprecedented, inclusive portrait of the century's poetry in Britain and Ireland.

Author Biography

Keith Tuma is Associate Professor of English at Miami University of Ohio. His essays on modern and contemporary British, Irish, and American poetry and culture have appeared in various journals including American Book Review, American Literary History, Boundary 2, Chicago Review, Contemporary Literature, Criticism, ELH, Modernism/Modernity, The Notre Dame Review, Open Letter, Paideuma, Sagetrieb, Sulfur, and Talisman, and in several book collections

Table of Contents

Preface	xix
Acknowledgments	xxix
Thomas Hardy (1840--1928)	1	(13)
Hap	2	(1)
Neutral Tones	3	(1)
The Subalterns	3	(1)
The Darkling Thrush	4	(1)
The Man He Killed	5	(1)
Channel Firing	6	(1)
`I Found Her Out There'	7	(1)
After a Journey	8	(1)
from Satires of Circumstance
II. In Church	9	(1)
VI. In the Cemetery	9	(1)
The Pity of It	10	(1)
In Time of `the Breaking of Nations'	11	(1)
Snow in the Suburbs	11	(1)
The Harbour Bridge	12	(1)
He Never Expected Much	13	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844--1889)	14	(10)
God's Grandeur	15	(1)
``As kingfishers catch fire''	16	(1)
The Windhover	16	(1)
Pied Beauty	17	(1)
Spring and Fall	18	(1)
Inversnaid	18	(1)
``I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day''	19	(1)
``No worst, there is none.''	20	(1)
[Carrion Comfort]	20	(1)
Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves	21	(1)
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection	22	(1)
Justus quidem tu es, Domine	23	(1)
Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936)	24	(5)
Gunga Din	25	(2)
Sestina of the Tramp-Royal	27	(1)
from Epitaphs of the War
Common Form	28	(1)
A Dead Statesman	28	(1)
William Butler Yeats (1865--1939)	29	(30)
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time	31	(1)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	32	(1)
Who Goes with Fergus?	33	(1)
The Valley of the Black Pig	33	(1)
September 1913	34	(1)
The Witch	35	(1)
The Peacock	35	(1)
The Dolls	36	(1)
A Coat	36	(1)
The Wild Swans at Coole	37	(1)
Easter 1916	38	(2)
The Second Coming	40	(1)
A Prayer for my Daughter	40	(2)
Sailing to Byzantium	42	(1)
The Tower	43	(5)
Leda and the Swan	48	(1)
Among School Children	49	(2)
Byzantium	51	(1)
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	52	(1)
Lapis Lazuli	53	(1)
Under Ben Bulben	54	(3)
The Circus Animals' Desertion	57	(1)
Politics	58	(1)
Charlotte Mew (1869--1928)	59	(6)
The Farmer's Bride	60	(1)
Fame	61	(1)
Arracombe Wood	61	(1)
On the Road to the Sea	62	(1)
Monsieur Qui Passe	63	(2)
Walter De La Mare (1873--1956)	65	(3)
Miss Loo	66	(1)
The Listeners	66	(1)
The Old Summerhouse	67	(1)
Ford Madox Ford (1873--1939)	68	(4)
The Starling	69	(3)
Edward Thomas (1878--1917)	72	(5)
The Other	73	(2)
Adlestrop	75	(1)
The Wasp Trap	75	(1)
A Cat	76	(1)
Rain	76	(1)
Harold Monro (1879---1932)	77	(3)
Bitter Sanctuary	78	(2)
Mina Loy (1882--1966)	80	(13)
Italian Pictures	81	(4)
from Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose English Rose	85	(7)
Der Blinde Junge	92	(1)
T. E. Hulme (1883--1917)	93	(3)
Autumn	94	(1)
The Embankment	94	(1)
Conversion	94	(1)
from Fragments	95	(1)
As a Fowl	95	(1)
Anna Wickham (1884--1947)	96	(3)
Divorce	96	(1)
Self Analysis	97	(1)
Meditation at Kew	98	(1)
D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930)	99	(7)
Under the Oak	100	(1)
Pomegranate	101	(1)
Snake	102	(2)
Swan	104	(1)
Willy Wet-Leg	104	(1)
Andraitx.---Pomegranate Flowers	105	(1)
Bavarian Gentians	105	(1)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886--1967)	106	(4)
A Working Party	107	(1)
The Rear-Guard	108	(1)
The General	109	(1)
Edith Sitwell (1887--1964)	110	(6)
from Facade
4. Ass-Face	111	(1)
6. The Bat	111	(1)
22. Fox Trot	112	(1)
37. Sir Beelzebub	113	(1)
The Canticle of the Rose	114	(2)
Elizabeth Daryush (1887--1977)	116	(2)
Still-life	116	(1)
``Children of wealth in your warm nursery''	117	(1)
News-reel	117	(1)
Edwin Muir (1887--1959)	118	(4)
The Old Gods	119	(1)
The Three Mirrors	119	(1)
The Horses	120	(2)
T. S. Eliot (1888--1965)	122	(29)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	125	(3)
Gerontion	128	(3)
The Waste Land	131	(13)
from Four Quartets
Little Gidding	144	(7)
Mary Butts (1890--1937)	151	(4)
Corfe	152	(3)
Isaac Rosenberg (1890--1918)	155	(5)
The Jew	155	(1)
Break of Day in the Trenches	156	(1)
Louse Hunting	156	(1)
Dead Man's Dump	157	(3)
Ivor Gurney (1890--1937)	160	(6)
First Time In	161	(1)
La Gorgue	161	(1)
Laventie	162	(1)
The Bare Line of the Hill	163	(2)
The Bohemians	165	(1)
Sea-Marge	165	(1)
Hugh Macdiarmid (1892--1978)	166	(23)
from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
[Sic Transit Gloria Scotiae]	168	(4)
[The Barren Fig]	172	(1)
[Yank Oot Your Orra Boughs]	173	(3)
On a Raised Beach	176	(10)
from In Memoriam James Joyce	186	(3)
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893--1978)	189	(6)
Nelly Trim	190	(2)
East London Cemetery	192	(1)
King Duffus	193	(1)
Anne Donne	193	(2)
Thomas Macgreevy (1893--1967)	195	(7)
De Civitate Hominum	196	(1)
The Six Who Were Hanged	197	(2)
Homage to Hieronymus Bosch	199	(3)
Wilfred Owen (1893--1918)	202	(5)
Dulce et Decorum Est	203	(1)
Strange Meeting	203	(2)
Arms and the Boy	205	(1)
Disabled	205	(2)
John Rodker (1894--1955)	207	(4)
A Slice of Life	208	(1)
The Music Hall	208	(1)
Hymn to Love	208	(2)
I'd have loved you as you deserved had we been frogs	210	(1)
David Jones (1895--1974)	211	(16)
from In Parenthesis
from Part 7: The five unmistakable marks	213	(5)
from The Anathemata
from I: Rite and Fore-Time	218	(2)
III: Angle-Land	220	(6)
A, a, a, Domine Deus	226	(1)
Robert Graves (1895--1985)	227	(6)
Warning to Children	228	(1)
The Legs	229	(1)
To Juan at the Winter Solstice	230	(1)
The White Goddess	231	(2)
Nancy Cunard (1896--1965)	233	(5)
from Parallax	234	(4)
Austin Clarke (1896--1974)	238	(8)
Forget Me Not	239	(7)
F. R. Higgins (1896--1941)	246	(5)
A Plea	247	(1)
Auction!	248	(3)
Basil Bunting (1900--1985)	251	(13)
from First Book of Odes
``I am agog for foam''	253	(1)
``Loud intolerant bells''	254	(1)
``Nothing''	254	(1)
``Now that sea's over that island''	255	(1)
``You leave''	256	(1)
The Orotava Road	256	(2)
from Briggflatts: I, Coda	258	(4)
from Second Book of Odes
``Boasts time mocks cumber Rome''	262	(1)
``Now we've no hope of going back''	263	(1)
Stevie Smith (1902--1971)	264	(6)
Souvenir de Monsieur Poop	265	(1)
Not Waving but Drowning	266	(1)
My Hat	267	(1)
The Celts	267	(1)
Pretty	268	(1)
Black March	269	(1)
Joseph Gordon Macleod (1903--1984)	270	(5)
from The Ecliptic
Cancer, or, The Crab	271	(4)
Patrick Kavanagh (1904--1967)	275	(9)
from The Great Hunger: I, IX	276	(3)
Father Mat	279	(4)
Canal Bank Walk	283	(1)
Brian Coffey (1905--1995)	284	(8)
Headrock	285	(1)
from Advent: I	286	(6)
William Empson (1906--1984)	292	(4)
Plenum and Vacuum	293	(1)
Villanelle	293	(1)
Reflection from Rochester	294	(1)
Sonnet	295	(1)
Samuel Beckett (1906--1989)	296	(5)
Enueg I	297	(2)
Enueg II	299	(1)
Ooftish	300	(1)
W. H. Auden (1907--1973)	301	(29)
``Bones wrenched, weak whimper, lids wrinkled ...''	304	(1)
The Secret Agent	304	(1)
The Watershed	305	(1)
``Consider this and in our time''	305	(2)
A Bride in the 30's	307	(2)
Spain	309	(3)
from Sonnets from China: VI, VII	312	(1)
Musee des Beaux Arts	313	(1)
In Memory of W. B. Yeats	313	(3)
September I, 1939	316	(2)
In Memory of Sigmund Freud	318	(3)
No Time	321	(1)
At the Grave of Henry James	322	(1)
In Praise of Limestone	323	(2)
from Horae Canonicae: Nones	325	(3)
Ode to Terminus	328	(2)
Louis Macneice (1907--1963)	330	(9)
An Eclogue for Christmas	331	(3)
Valediction	334	(3)
Snow	337	(1)
Carrickfergus	337	(2)
Clere Parsons (1908--1931)	339	(3)
Corybantic	340	(1)
Photogravure	340	(1)
Different	341	(1)
Interruption	341	(1)
Denis Devlin (1908--1959)	342	(6)
Lough Derg	343	(4)
Obstacle Basilisk	347	(1)
Lynette Roberts (1909--1995)	348	(11)
from Gods with Stainless Ears: IV, V	349	(10)
Norman Maccaig (1910--1996)	359	(5)
High Street, Edinburgh	360	(1)
Nude in a Fountain	361	(1)
Celtic cross	362	(1)
Intrusion	363	(1)
Sorley Maclean/Somhairle Macgill-Eain (1911--1996)	364	(5)
The Island	365	(1)
Going Westwards	366	(3)
F. T. Prince (b. 1912)	369	(8)
Strafford	370	(7)
Charles Madge (1912--1996)	377	(6)
Obsessional	378	(1)
Delusions I	378	(1)
Delusions III	379	(1)
Delusions V	380	(1)
Delusions VII	381	(1)
Countries of the Dead II	382	(1)
Dylan Thomas (1914--1953)	383	(6)
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower	384	(1)
Our eunuch dreams	385	(1)
To-day, this insect	386	(1)
Over Sir John's hill	387	(2)
C. H. Sisson (b. 1914)	389	(6)
A Letter to John Donne	390	(1)
The Desert	391	(1)
Au Clair de la Lune	392	(2)
Place	394	(1)
David Gascoyne (b. 1916)	395	(6)
And the Seventh Dream is the Dream of Isis	396	(2)
Baptism	398	(1)
The Rites of Hysteria	398	(1)
The Cubical Domes	399	(2)
Nicholas Moore (1918--1986)	401	(5)
Song	402	(1)
Ideas of Disorder at Torquay	402	(2)
Portman Restaurant	404	(1)
Leap Year	405	(1)
W. S. Graham (1918--1986)	406	(16)
The Nightfishing	407	(13)
A Note to the Difficult One	420	(1)
Language Ah Now You Have Me	420	(2)
Tom Scott (1918--1995)	422	(11)
Johnie Raw Prays for His Lords and Maisters	423	(10)
Keith Douglas (1920--1944)	433	(8)
Simplify me when I'm dead	434	(1)
These grasses, ancient enemies	435	(1)
Mersa	435	(1)
Dead Men	436	(1)
Cairo Jag	437	(1)
Aristocrats	438	(1)
Vergissmeinnicht	439	(1)
How to Kill	439	(2)
Bob Cobbing (b. 1920)	441	(4)
[wan do tree]	442	(1)
[Lion Lenin Leonora]	443	(1)
[Alevin Bars Causapscal]	444	(1)
Philip Larkin (1922--1985)	445	(12)
Church Going	446	(1)
Toads	447	(1)
Nothing To Be Said	448	(1)
Water	449	(1)
The Whitsun Weddings	449	(2)
An Arundel Tomb	451	(1)
High Windows	452	(1)
Going, Going	453	(1)
Homage to a Government	454	(1)
This Be The Verse	455	(1)
The Explosion	455	(2)
Donald Davie (1922--1995)	457	(6)
Hearing Russian Spoken	458	(1)
Rejoinder to a Critic	458	(1)
Rodez	459	(1)
Out of East Anglia	460	(1)
A Conditioned Air	460	(1)
Inditing A Good Matter	461	(2)
James Berry (b. 1924)	463	(3)
Letter to My Father from London	464	(1)
From Lucy: Englan a University	464	(2)
Ian Hamilton Finlay (b. 1925)	466	(5)
Orkney Lyrics	467	(2)
Sea-Poppy 1	469	(1)
Sea-Poppy 2	470	(1)
Asa Benveniste (1925--1990)	471	(4)
First Words	472	(1)
Georgic	472	(1)
Bird Appeal	473	(1)
Blue Crepe	473	(2)
Elizabeth Jennings (b. 1926)	475	(3)
Choices	476	(1)
Fountain	476	(1)
On Its Own	477	(1)
Christopher Middleton (b. 1926)	478	(5)
Hearing Elgar Again	479	(1)
The Prose of Walking Back to China	480	(3)
Charles Tomlinson (b.1927)	483	(11)
Aesthetic	484	(1)
Distinctions	484	(1)
Saving the Appearances	485	(1)
Swimming Chenango Lake	485	(1)
Prometheus	486	(2)
Annunciation	488	(1)
The Plaza	489	(2)
The Garden	491	(3)
Thomas Kinsella (b. 1928)	494	(5)
Baggot Street Deserta	495	(2)
Ritual of Departure	497	(2)
Gael Turnbull (b. 1928)	499	(6)
George Fox, from his Journals	500	(1)
from Twenty Words, Twenty Days: XVII--XX	501	(3)
Thighs Gripping	504	(1)
John Montague (b. 1929)	505	(7)
The Trout	506	(1)
A Bright Day	506	(1)
The Cage	507	(1)
This Neutral Realm	508	(1)
The Well Dreams	509	(3)
Thom Gunn (b. 1929)	512	(11)
The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision of his Death	513	(1)
Confessions of the Life Artist	514	(3)
Moly	517	(1)
Seesaw	518	(1)
A Sketch of the Great Dejection	519	(1)
Lament	520	(3)
Elaine Feinstein (b. 1930)	523	(3)
Marriage	524	(1)
Exile	525	(1)
For Brighton, Old Bawd	525	(1)
Ted Hughes (1930--1998)	526	(11)
View of a Pig	527	(1)
Pike	528	(1)
Out	529	(2)
Pibroch	531	(1)
Wodwo	531	(1)
Crow Hears Fate Knock on the Door	532	(1)
from Gaudete	533	(2)
Flounders	535	(2)
Roy Fisher (b. 1930)	537	(14)
from City
The Entertainment of War	538	(1)
The Poplars	539	(1)
``Walking through the suburb at night''	540	(1)
From an English Sensibility	541	(1)
from A Furnace
Introit	541	(3)
II. The Return	544	(7)
Jon Silkin (1930--1998)	551	(5)
Death of a Son	552	(1)
First it was Singing	553	(1)
Dandelion	553	(1)
A Daisy	554	(1)
A Word about Freedom and Identity in Tel-Aviv	555	(1)
Rosemary Tonks (b. 1932)	556	(4)
The Sofas, Fogs, and Cinemas	557	(1)
The Little Cardboard Suitcase	558	(1)
The Ice-cream Boom Towns	559	(1)
Peter Redgrove (b. 1932)	560	(6)
Against Death	561	(1)
Young Women with the Hair of Witches and No Modesty	561	(1)
The British Museum Smile	562	(1)
Mothers and Child	563	(3)
Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932)	566	(21)
Genesis	567	(1)
Ovid in the Third Reich	568	(1)
September Song	569	(1)
History as Poetry	569	(1)
from Mercian Hymns: I---XII, XXVII--XXX	570	(6)
from The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy: 4, 5	576	(4)
Respublica	580	(1)
from The Triumph of Love: XXIII, XXV, XXXV, XXXIX--XLIV, LV, LXI--LXIV, CXLVII--CL	581	(6)
Fleur Adcock (b. 1934)	587	(4)
Against Coupling	587	(1)
The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers	588	(1)
Leaving the Tate	589	(2)
Tony Harrison (b. 1937)	591	(13)
v.	592	(12)
John Riley (1937--1978)	604	(9)
Czargrad	605	(8)
Tom Raworth (b. 1938)	613	(11)
Wedding Day	614	(1)
You've Ruined My Evening/You've Ruined My Life	615	(1)
South America	615	(1)
from Logbook: pages 106, 453	616	(1)
from Sentenced to Death
``sentenced he gives a shape''	617	(1)
``curiously the whole thing had begun''	617	(1)
``reversals of performance levels''	618	(1)
from Eternal Sections
``in black tunics, middle-aged''	618	(1)
``brilliance of the orange lily''	618	(1)
``thoughts are in real time''	619	(1)
Out of the Picture	619	(5)
R. F. Langley (b. 1938)	624	(5)
Saxon Landings	625	(2)
Man Jack	627	(2)
Carlyle Reedy (b. 1938)	629	(4)
The Slave Ship	630	(3)
E. A. Markham (b. 1939)	633	(10)
The Sea	634	(1)
Towards the End of a Century	634	(6)
Grandmotherpoem	640	(1)
The Mother's Tale	641	(2)
John James (b. 1939)	643	(6)
Good Old Harry	644	(1)
Inaugural Address	645	(4)
Lee Harwood (b. 1939)	649	(7)
When the geography was fixed	650	(1)
The Blue Mosque	651	(3)
Salt Water	654	(2)
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)	656	(18)
Bogland	657	(1)
North	658	(2)
Singing School	660	(6)
Oysters	666	(1)
The Toome Road	667	(1)
The Underground	667	(1)
from Station Island: VII, XII	668	(4)
The Mud Vision	672	(2)
Peter Riley (b. 1940)	674	(7)
from Lines on the Liver: 1, 2, 10, 11, 17	675	(2)
from Excavations, Part One
from Book 1: Distant Points
``the body in its final commerce''	677	(1)
``folded in river clay''	677	(1)
``carefully dismembered''	678	(1)
from Book 2: This Carol They Began That Hour
``Sing to me''	678	(1)
``Meaning spills''	679	(1)
``Leaving a simple state''	679	(1)
from Book 3: Vacated Thrones
``Ganesa dances''	680	(1)
```I arrived at a place mute of light'''	680	(1)
Derek Mahon (b. 1941)	681	(6)
The Snow Party	682	(1)
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford	683	(1)
Courtyards in Delft	684	(1)
A Garage in Co. Cork	685	(2)
Andrew Crozier (b. 1943)	687	(6)
The Veil Poem	688	(5)
Tom Leonard (b. 1944)	693	(8)
Six Glasgow Poems	694	(2)
A Priest Came on at Merkland Street	696	(5)
Craig Raine (b. 1944)	701	(3)
An Enquiry into Two Inches of Ivory	702	(1)
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home	703	(1)
Eavan Boland (b. 1944)	704	(6)
The Woman Turns Herself into a Fish	705	(1)
Listen. This is the Noise of Myth	706	(3)
from Outside History
9: In Exile	709	(1)
Allen Fisher (b. 1944)	710	(11)
from four novels
African Mission	711	(1)
defamiliarising-----:38	712	(1)
Mummers' Strut	712	(9)
Tom Pickard (b. 1946)	721	(4)
A History Lesson from My Son on Hadrian's Wall	722	(1)
Energy	723	(1)
The Double D Economy	723	(2)
Peter Reading (b. 1946)	725	(4)
from Stet	726	(2)
Thucydidean	728	(1)
Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947--1975)	729	(7)
Cordelia: or, `A Poem Should Not Mean, But Be'	730	(6)
Liz Lochhead (b. 1947)	736	(5)
Mirror's Song	736	(2)
Bagpipe Muzak, Glasgow 1990	738	(3)
Trevor Joyce (b. 1947)	741	(7)
The Turlough	742	(1)
Cry Help	743	(2)
Tohu-bohu	745	(3)
Denise Riley (b. 1948)	748	(7)
Affections must not	749	(1)
Lure, 1963	749	(1)
When it's time to go	750	(1)
Pastoral	750	(2)
Wherever you'are, be somewhere else	752	(1)
Knowing in the real world	753	(2)
Barry Macsweeney (1948--2000)	755	(5)
from Hellhound Memos	756	(4)
Bill Griffiths (b. 1948)	760	(6)
Reekie	761	(5)
Brian Catling (b. 1948)	766	(9)
The Stumbling Block its Index	767	(8)
Alan Halsey (b. 1949)	775	(4)
Answering a New Year Letter, 1989	776	(1)
Self-Portrait in a '90s Bestiary	776	(1)
An Essay on Translation	777	(2)
Grace Nichols (b. 1950)	779	(5)
The Fat Black Woman Remembers	780	(1)
The Fat Black Woman Versus Politics	780	(1)
Skanking Englishman Between Trains	781	(1)
Long-Man	782	(2)
Medbh Mcguckian (b. 1950)	784	(6)
Tulips	784	(1)
The Seed-Picture	785	(1)
Slips	786	(1)
Aviary	786	(1)
The War Ending	787	(1)
The Albert Chain	788	(2)
Tony Lopez (b. 1950)	790	(5)
Brought Forward	790	(5)
Maggie O'Sullivan (b. 1951)	795	(6)
Starlings	796	(1)
Garb	797	(2)
Hill Figures	799	(2)
Paul Muldoon (b. 1951)	801	(15)
Quoof	802	(1)
Meeting the British	802	(1)
Incantata	803	(13)
Frank Kuppner (b. 1951)	816	(5)
Eclipsing Binaries	817	(4)
Geraldine Monk (b. 1952)	821	(5)
La Quinta del Sordo	822	(3)
Where?	825	(1)
Linton Kwesi Johnson (b. 1952)	826	(4)
Mi Revalueshanary Fren	827	(3)
Maurice Scully (b. 1952)	830	(5)
from Steps
Fire	831	(4)
John Wilkinson (b. 1953)	835	(7)
from Sarn Helen
``bayonetted''	836	(2)
``snap crackle & pop''	838	(2)
``You've got some lip''	840	(2)
Jo Shapcott (b. 1953)	842	(4)
Phrase Book	843	(1)
The Mad Cow in Love	844	(1)
Mad Cow Dance	844	(2)
Moniza Alvi (b. 1954)	846	(4)
And If	847	(1)
The Wedding	848	(1)
Grand Hotel	849	(1)
Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955)	850	(6)
Standing Female Nude	850	(1)
And How Are We Today?	851	(1)
Psychopath	852	(1)
Translating the English, 1989	853	(1)
Poet for Our Times	854	(2)
Cris Cheek (b. 1955)	856	(10)
`stranger'	857	(9)
Robert Sheppard (b. 1955)	866	(4)
The Materialization of Soap 1947	867	(1)
Internal Exile 1	868	(2)
David Dabydeen (b. 1955)	870	(11)
Coolie Odyssey	871	(4)
from Turner: I, II, XVIII, XX, XXIV, XXV	875	(6)
Randolph Healy (b. 1956)	881	(8)
Colonies of Belief	882	(2)
from Arbor Vitae: I	884	(5)
Jean ``Binta'' Breeze (b. 1957)	889	(6)
Riddym Ravings (The Mad Woman's Poem)	890	(3)
Cherry Tree Garden	893	(2)
Benjamin Zephaniah (b. 1958)	895	(5)
Money	896	(2)
The SUN	898	(2)
Jackie Kay (b. 1961)	900	(5)
from The Adoption Papers
Black Bottom	901	(4)
W. N. Herbert (b. 1961)	905	(6)
The Anxiety of Information	906	(1)
The Postcards of Scotland	907	(4)
Caroline Bergvall (b. 1962)	911	(9)
Les jets de la Poupee	912	(8)
Drew Milne (b. 1964)	920	(5)
A Garden of Tears	921	(4)
Catherine Walsh (b. 1964)	925	(6)
from Pitch: Part Three	926	(5)
Helen Macdonald (b. 1970)	931	(4)
Taxonomy	932	(1)
Blackbird/Jackdaw/Turdus/corvus/merula/monedula	932	(1)
Section VIII	933	(1)
Poem	934	(1)
Index of Authors	935	(2)
Index of Titles	937