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• Poetry & Pizza by William Oxley
Willam Oxley pays tribute to friend and poet, Dannie Abse.
• Interview with Dannie Abse by J P Ward
Dannie Abse talks about his new collection Remembrance of Crimes Past, Movement Poetry and his role as an urban poet.
• Finding Consolations by James A Davies
James A Davies discusses three of Dannie Abse's plays: Fire in Heaven, House of Cowards and Pythagoras.
• The Martians Disciple? by Linden Peach
Linden Peach on the irony and wit in the poetry of Oliver Reynolds.
• Rescuing the Word by Robert Minhinnick
Focus on the 'poster-poet' Paul Pieter Piech and his work with the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education.
• The Transitory Walker by Dewi Stephen Jones
Dewi Stephen Jones on continuity in the poetry of Anne Stevenson.
• Letter From America by David Lloyd
David Lloyd looks at the coming of age of Postmodernist writers.
• Tony Conran's Branwen by Ian Gregson
Ian Gregson reviews the Made in Wales stage company's production of Branwen.
• In My Master's House by G D C Swain
• Summer's End: Snaketown by Ron Berry
• Tea with Subhasish by Gerry Farrell
• Point of Departure by Tim Bird
Poems by :
William Oxley
John Davies
Tony Roberts
Raymond Tong
D J Lightfoot
Michael Levene
Geoffrey Holloway
David Winwood
Phil McKelliget
John Stuart Williams
Alison Bielski
Chris Bendon
Mike Jenkins
Gavin Ewart
Richard Wonnacott
Lucy Anne Watt
Zona Teti
Micheal O'Siadhail
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• Stolen Fire: Selected Poems by Lyubomir Levchev
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• The Road to Freedom by Geo Milev
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• Selected Poems, 1933-1980 by George Faludy
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• Metamorphoses by Diane Fahey
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• Collected Poems: 1951-1975 by Charles Causley
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• A Field of Vision by Charles Causley
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• Selected Poems by Hugo Williams
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• Selected Poems by David Harsent
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• MacDiarmid: A Critical Biography by Alan Bold
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• C L R James: The Artist as Revolutionary by Paul Buhle
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• Pitman Painters: The Ashington Group 1934-1984 by William Feaver
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• The New British Painting by Edward Lucie-Smith, Carolyn Cohen, Judith Higgins
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• Selected Writings by Christopher Middleton
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