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The 20th Centuryin Poetry

E D I T E D BY

Michael Hulse and Simon Rae

In association with Felix Dennis

EBURYPRESS

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I1900—1914 Never such innocence again

1900 THOMAS HARDY: The Darkling Thrush 13

WILFRID WILSON GIBSON: Flannan Isle 15

1901 LES MURRAY: The Ballad of Jimmy Governor 19

N O E L COWARD: 1901 22

RUDYARD KIPLING: Bridge-Guard in the Karroo 25

LAURENCE H O P E (ADELA FLORENCE NICOLSON) :

Story of Lilavanti 28

1902 J O H N MASEFIELD: Sea-Fever 30

FRANCES CORNFORD: Autumn Morning at Cambridge 31

A. E. HousMAN:The Olive 32

A. E. HOUSMAN: 'I did not lose my heart in

summer's even' 33

1903 J O H N MASEFIELD: Cargoes 34

WILLIAM WATSON: Rome and Another 35

1904 JAMES JOYCE: Tilly 36

JAMES JOYCE: 'Because your voice was at my side' 37

1905 J O H N DAVIDSON: A Runnable Stag 38

H. D. RAWNSLEY:TO the Mikado, Portsmouth, USA 41

STEPHEN PHILLIPS -.from The Apparition 42

1906 J. M. SYNGE: Beg-Innish 43

1907 SHAW NEiLSON:The Sundowner 44

1908 W H. D A V I E S : A Beggar's Life 46

J. M. SYNGE: Dread 47

1909 WILLIAM WATSON:/rom Sonnets to Miranda 48

1910 W B .YEATS: No Second Troy 49

LINDA BIERDS: White Bears": Tolstoy at Astapovo 50

E D W I N ARLINGTON R O B I N S O N : Uncle Ananias 52

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D. H. LAWRENCE: Guards 53

JAMES ELROY FLECKER: The Ballad of Camden Town 54

1911 HILAIRE BELLOC: Lord Finchley 56

D. H. LAWRENCE: Last Lesson of the Afternoon 57

DOUGLAS STEWART:/rom Rutherford 58

ALLEN TATE: The Swimmers 65

1912 KATHLEEN EMERSON: 'Oh! who are these in scant array?' 68

CHARLOTTE M E W : The Farmer's Bride 70

KATHERINE MANSFIELD:TO God the Father 72

RUPERT BROOKE: The Old Vicarage, Grantchester 73

E. J. PRATT.from The Titanic 78

WALTER DE LA MAKE: The Listeners 82

EZRA POUND: The Gypsy 84

THOMAS HARDY:Your Last Drive 85

1913 THOMAS HARDY: At Castle Boterel 87

CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN: ' I said, This misery must end' 89

1914 ROBERT FROST: Home Burial 90

EZRA P O U N D : Abu Salammamm —A Song of Empire 94

G. K. CHESTERTON: The Rolling English Road 96

EDWARD THOMAS: Adlestrop 98

RUPERT BROOKE: The Soldier 99

GEOFFREY HiLL:/romThe Mystery of the Charity of

Charles Peguy 100

PHILIP LARKIN: MCMXIV 102

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1915—1922 War to Waste Land

1915 THOMAS HARDY: In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' 109

KATHERINE MANSFIELD: TO L. H. B. (1894-1915) no

CARL SANDBURG: Buttons i n

EDGAR LEE MASTERS: Mrs Kessler 112

WALLACE STEVENS: Sunday Morning 113

THOMAS HARDY: The Oxen 117

1916 ISAAC ROSENBERG: Break of Day in the Trenches 118

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DAVID JONES:/TOW In Parenthesis 119

W. B. YEATS: Easter 1916 121

PADRAIC C O L U M : Roger Casement 124

CHARLOTTE M E W : Beside the Bed 125

A N N A WiCKHAM:The Fired Pot 126

EDWARD THOMAS: AS the Team's Head-Brass 127

SIEGFRIED SASSOON: The Hero 129

SIEGFRIED SASSOON: 'They' 130

1917 L E O N GELLERT: Before Action 131

WILFRED O W E N : Dulce et Decorum Est 132

W I L F R E D O W E N : Strange Meeting 133

WILFRED O W E N : Anthem for Doomed Youth 135

IVOR GURNEY: Bach and the Sentry 136

RUDYARD K I P L I N G : Mesopotamia 137

T. S. E L I O T : The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock 139

ALAN B R O W N J O H N : Common Sense 144

1918 WILFRED O W E N : The Send-Off 146

ALLEN C U R N O W : Survivors 147

SIEGFRIED SASSOON: Reconciliation 148

D. H . LAWRENCE: Piano 149

1919 RUDYARD K I P L I N G -.from Epitaphs of the War 150

1920 EZRA P O U N D : E. P. Ode Pour l'Election de son Sepulchre 151

CARL SANDBURG: Mohammed Bek Hadjetlache 155

CARL SANDBURG: Buffalo Dusk 156

E D W I N ARLINGTON R O B I N S O N : The Rat 157

W B . Y E A T S : T h e Second Coming 158

1921 WALLACE STEVENS: The Snow Man 159

ROBERT FROST: The Census-Taker 160

LANGSTON H U G H E S : The Negro Speaks of Rivers 162

VICTORIA SACKVILLE-WEST: Full Moon 163

1922 T. S. ELiOT:/rom The Waste Land 164

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III1923—1939 Danger and hope

1923 WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: The Red Wheelbarrow 175

D. H. LAWRENCE: Snake, 176

JEAN TOOMER: Portrait in Georgia 179

NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY: The Leaden-Eyed 180

ROBERT FROST: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 181

HILAIRE BELLOC: On a General Election 182

1924 A. A. M I L N E : Buckingham Palace 183

W H. DAVIES:TO a Lady Friend 184

1925 SHAW NEILSON: The Old Wives Sat at the Table 185

THOMAS HARDY: N O Buyers 187

COUNTEE CULLEN: Incident 188

1926 ROBERT BRIDGES: LOW Barometer 189

R O Y CAMPBELL: The Sisters 190

IDRIS DAVIES: 'Cow-parsley and hawthorn blossom' 191

JOHN MASEFIELD: An Epilogue 192

LANGSTON H U G H E S : Cross 193

1927 J O H N CROWE RANSOM:Vision by Sweetwater 194

T. S. ELIOT: Journey of the Magi 195

1928 EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY: Dirge without Music 197

ROBERT FROST: Acquainted with the Night 198

EDGELL R I C K W O R D : Luxury 199

1929 HART CRANE: A Name for All 200

1930 W. H. A U D E N : Consider 201

ROBERT GRAVES: Song: Lift-Boy 203

1931 BASIL BUNTING: AUS dem Zweiten Reich 204

1932 MARIANNE M O O R E : The Steeple-Jack 207

1933 WILLIAM EMPSON: Aubade 210

1934 CHARLES REZNIKOFF: from Jerusalem the Golden 212

D O N MARQUIS: mehitabel s morals 214

R. A. K. M A S O N : Lugete o veneres 215

1935 E. E. CUMMINGS: 'may I feel said he' 216

EZRA P O U N D : Canto XLV 218

1936 WALLACE STEVENS: The Idea of Order at Key West 220

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W. B .YEATS: The Ghost of Roger Casement 222

R O Y FULLER: On Seeing the Leni Riefenstahl Film

of the 1936 Olympic Games 224

Louis MAcNEiCE:/rom Autumn Journal 225

J O H N CORNFORD: A Letter from Aragon 228

GEOFFREY PARSONS: Lorca 230

1937 W. H. AUDEN: Spain 232

STEPHEN SPENDER: Thoughts during an Air Raid 236

Louis M A C N E I C E : Bagpipe Music 237

WILLIAM EMPSON: Missing Dates 239

ROBINSON JEFFERS:The Purse-Seine 240

1938 STEPHEN SPENDER: Port Bou 242

DANNIE ABSE: In the Theatre 244

W. B .YEATS: Lapis Lazuli 246

H U G H MAcDiARMiD:The Glen of Silence 248

AUSTIN CLARKE: Penal Law 249

HILAIRE BELLOC: The Pacifist 250

DAVID GASCOYNE: Snow in Europe 251

1939 W. H. AUDEN: In Memory ofW. B.Yeats 252

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: The Last Words of My

English Grandmother 255

KENNETH SLESSOR: Five Bells 257

ANDREW YOUNG: Walking on the Cliff 262

ROBERT GRAVES: The Thieves 263

Louis M A C N E I C E : Meeting Point 264

W. H. AUDEN: 'Say this city has ten million souls' 266

IV1940-1945 War

1940 HENRY R E E D : Lessons of the War 273

ALUN LEWIS: 'All day it has rained . . .' 276

J O H N BETJEMAN: In Westminster Abbey 278

R O Y FISHER: The Entertainment of War 280

EVE LANGLEY: Native-born 282

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T. S. E L I O T : East Coker 284

1941 N O E L COWARD: We Must Have a Speech from a

Minister 291

JOHN MAGEE: High Flight 293

H.D.:/rom R.A.F. 294

W R. RODGERS: Escape 295

ALLEN C U R N O W : House and Land 296

MARIANNE M O O R E : What are Years? 298

CARL R A K O S K T O an Anti-Semite 299

1942 R O Y FULLER: Spring 1942 300

ALAN R O S S : Survivors 301

H.D.:from The Walls Do Not Fall 302

SORLEY MACLEAN: Death Valley 304

KENNETH SLESSOR: Beach Burial 306

1943 KEITH DOUGLAS: Cairo Jag 307

KEITH DOUGLAS:Vergissmeinnicht 308

KEITH DOUGLAS: Sportsmen 309

CHARLES CAUSLEY: Rattler Morgan 310

A. R . D. FAiRBURN:Tapu 311

1944 CHARLES SIMIC: Prodigy 312

E. J. SCOVELL: A Refugee 313

DOROTHY PARKER: War Song 314

JOHN MANIFOLD: Fife Tune 315

Louis SIMPSON: Carentan O Carentan 316

MARIANNE M O O R E : The Mind is an Enchanting Thing 318

ROBINSON JEFFERS: The Eye 320

1945 CLAUDE M C K A Y : Look within 321

RANDALL JARRELL: A Pilot from the Carrier 322

RANDALL JARRELL: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner 323

PHILLIP WHITFIELD: Day of Liberation,

Bergen-Belsen, May 1945 324

JEFFREY HARRISON: Sketch 325

HOWARD NEMEROV: August, 1945 327

E D W I N MuiR:The Castle 328

DYLAN THOMAS:.Fern Hill 329

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V1946—1968 Peace and Cold War

1946 J U D I T H W R I G H T : The Hawthorn Hedge 339

J U D I T H W R I G H T : The Company of Lovers 340

R . S. THOMAS: A Peasant 341

ELIZABETH BISHOP: The Map 342

SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER: Mr Gradgrind's Country 343

1947 W E L D O N KEES: The View of the Castle 345

PATRICK KAVANAGH: Epic 346

W. H. A U D E N : Partition 347

1948 THEODORE ROETHKE: Child on Top of a Greenhouse 348

KINGSLEY A M I S : The Last War 349

1949 WILLIAM EMPSON: Let it go 351

1950 R . A. K. M A S O N : Sonnet to MacArthur's Eyes 352

GWENDOLYN BROOKS: Beverly Hills, Chicago 353

1951 ADRIENNE R I C H : The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing

Room 355

DYLAN THOMAS: ' D O not go gentle into that good night' 356

LAWRENCE DURRELL: Sarajevo 357

1952 W. H. AUDEN: The Shield of Achilles 358

N I S S I M EzEKiEL:The Double Horror 361

1953 J U D I T H W R I G H T : The Lost Man 363

1954 EDWARD KAMAU BRATHWAITE:/KWI Rites 364

P H I L I P LARKIN: Church Going 367

T H O M G U N N : The Wound 369

J O N SILKIN: Death of a Son 370

1955 J U D I T H W R I G H T : At Cooloolah 372

K I T W R I G H T : Frankie and Johnny in 1955 373

E D W I N M U I R : The Horses 376

1956 ALLEN GINSBERG: America 378

EARLE BIRNEY: Sinaloa 382

ELIZABETH B I S H O P : At the, Fishhouses 384

R I C H A R D WILBUR: A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the

Villa Sciarra 387

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1957 STEVIE SMITH: Not Waving but Drowning 390

STEVIE SMITH: I Remember 391

KENDRICK SMITHYMAN: Waikato Railstop 392

1958 LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: In Goya's greatest scenes

we seem to see 394

PHILIP LARKIN: The Whitsun Weddings 396

1959 R. D. FITZGERALD: The Wind at Your Door 399

Louis SIMPSON: To the Western World 404

JAMES WRIGHT: Eisenhower's Visit to Franco, 1959 405

FRANK O ' H A R A : The Day Lady Died 407

W. D. SNODGRASS-.from Heart's Needle 409

ROBERT LOWELL: Skunk Hour 411

1960 RANDALL JARRELL: The Woman at the Washington

Zoo 413

GALWAY KiNNELL:/rom The Avenue Bearing the

Initial of Christ into the New World 415

TED HUGHES: Epiphany 417

TED HUGHES: Pike 419

D O M MORAES: From Tibet 421

INGRID DE KOK: Our Sharpeville 423

1961 MICHAEL HAMBURGER: In a Cold Season 425

ELIZABETH JENNINGS: My Grandmother 430

Louis MACNEICE: The Taxis 431

RICHARD WILBUR: Advice to a Prophet 432

ROBERT LOWELL: Fall 1961 434

1962 PAUL MULDOON: Cuba 435

D. J. ENRIGHT: Apocalypse 436

BOB DYLAN: Blowin' in the Wind 438

KENNETH KOCH:YOU were wearing 439

DAVID CAMPBELL: Mothers and Daughters 441

ANNE SEXTON: All My Pretty Ones 442

SYLVIA PLATH:The Bee Meeting 444

SYLVIA PLATH: Lady Lazarus 446

1963 GWEN HARWOOD: Prize-Giving 449

DAVID CAMPBELL:The Australian Dream 451

C. K. STEAD: Dallas, 1963 453

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1964 ROBERT LOWELL: For the Union Dead 454

FRANK O ' H A R A : Anxiety 457

J O H N BERRYMAN: Dream Song 41 458

1965 BASIL BUNTING -.from Briggflatts 459

IAIN CRICHTON SMITH: Old Woman 464

ELIZABETH BISHOP: Questions ofTravel 465

1966 WILLIAM PLOMER: A Walk in Wiirzburg 468

ARTHUR N O R T J E : At Rest from the Grim Place 470

J O H N BETJEMAN: Mortality 471

1967 R I C H A R D WILBUR: A Miltonic Sonnet for Mr Johnson

on His Refusal of Peter Hurd's Official Portrait 472

ROBERT LOWELL: Waking Early Sunday Morning 473

J O H N BERRYMAN: Sonnet 71 477

ROGER M C G O U G H : Let Me Die aYoungman's Death 478

W S. M E R W I N : For the Anniversary of My Death 480

ANTHONY H E C H T : 'It out-Herods Herod. Pray you,

avoid it.' 481

1968 A. D. H O P E : On an Engraving by Casserius 483

SHARON O L D S : May 1968 488

DEREK WALCOTT: Elegy 490

CHARLES CAUSLEY: Ballad of the Bread Man 492

CHARLES TOMLINSON: Siena in Sixty-Eight 495

W H . A U D E N : August, 1968 497

J O H N BERRYMAN: Dream Song 105 498

J O H N BERRYMAN: Dream Song 343 499

NORMAN M A C C A I G : Crossing the Border 500

E D W I N MORGAN: One Cigarette 501

HARRY CLIFTON: Death ofThomas Merton 502

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1969—1988 From the Moon to Berlin

1969 J O H N UPDIKE: Seven New Ways of Looking at the Moon 511

W. H. AUDEN: Moon Landing 514

WILLIAM PLOMER: TO the Moon and Back 516

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JAMES MCAULEY: Because 517

JAMES MCAULEY: Tabletalk 519

1970 DAVID MALOUF: Reading Horace outside Sydney, 1970 520

FRANCIS W E B B : Incident 521

JAMES K. BAXTER:/rom Jerusalem Sonnets 523

W S. GRAHAM: 'I leave this at your ear' 526

1971 CHARLES SIMIC: Spoon 527

JONATHAN KARIARA:A Leopard Lives in a Muu Tree 528

C H I N U A ACHEBE: Vultures 530

1972 PETER REDGROVE:The Curiosity-Shop 532

PHILIP LARKIN: Going, Going 533

ROBERT PENN WARREN: Natural History 535

JOHN BERRYMAN: Certainty Before Lunch 536

JAMES K. BAXTER: from Autumn Testament 537

1973 DOUGLAS STEWART: B Flat 540

HOWARD NEMEROV: On Getting Out ofVietnam 542

HOWARD NEMEROV: On Being Asked for a Peace Poem 543

1974 PAUL DURCAN: In Memory of Those Murdered in

the Dublin Massacre, May 1974 545

1975 SEAMUS HEANEY: Punishment 546

DEREK M A H O N : A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford 548

PETER PORTER: On First Looking into Chapman's

Hesiod 551

1976 ELIZABETH BISHOP: One Art 554

ARUN KOLATKAR: The Priest 555

JAYANTA MAHAPATRA: The Abandoned British Cemetery

at Balasore 557

1977 LES MURRAY:The Future 559

JOHN TRANTER: from Crying in Early Infancy 561

1978 U. A. FANTHORPE: The List 562

PETER PORTER: An Exequy 563

TED H U G H E S : Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for

Three Days 567

ROBERT GRAY: Flames and Dangling Wire 569

GEOFFREY HILL:'Christmas Trees' 571

1979 DEREK WALCOTT: Koenig of the River 572

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CAROLYN FORCHE: The Visitor 576

SEAMUS HEANEY: Casualty 577

R A L P H GusTAFSON:The Old Moscow Woman 581

C. K . W I L L I A M S : Tar 583

1980 PAUL MuLDOON:Why Brownlee Left 586

DAVE SMITH: Cumberland Station 587

1981 ANDREW M O T I O N : Anne Frank Huis 590

DOUGLAS LIVINGSTONE: Bad Run at King's Rest 592

CHRISTOPHER LOGUE:/TOW War Music 593

1982 JAMES FENTON: Dead Soldiers 597

K I T W R I G H T : I Found South African Breweries

Most Hospitable 600

N I S S I M EzEKiEL:/rom Very Indian Poems in Indian

English 602

GAVIN EwART:The Lovesleep 604

ALLEN C U R N O W : A Reliable Service 605

ROBERT BRINGHURST: Questions for the Old Woman 606

GILLIAN CLARKE: The Water-Diviner 607

D O N CoLES:^rom Landslides 608

1983 JORIE GRAHAM: History 609

MICHAEL LONGLEY:Wounds 611

LANDEG W H I T E : Raid 613

J O H N WHITWORTH: These Boys 614

1984 IAN M C M I L L A N : Visitors: Armthorpe, August 1984 615

ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA:The Roys 616

FUNSO AIYEJINA: AView of a View 620

SHIRLEY KAUFMAN: Stones 621

CRAIG R A I N E : In Modern Dress 622

SEAMUS HEANEY: The Underground 625

PHYLLIS W E B B : 'My loves are dying' 626

MICHAEL ONDAATjE:The Cinnamon Peeler 627

1985 H U G O WILLIAMS: Tangerines 629

DOUGLAS D U N N : Empty Wardrobes 631

PETER R E A D I N G : 'This is unclean . . .' 632

TONY HARRISON: The Mother of the Muses 633

1986 VINCENT O'SULLIVAN: liberal 642

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VIKRAM SETH: from The Golden Gate 643

MICHAEL HOFMANN: Albion Market 647

W E N D Y COPE: Waste Land Limericks 649

1987 R I C H A R D WILBUR: A Fable 651

DAVID CoNSTANTiNE:The Quick and the Dead at

Pompeii 652

SEAN O ' B R I E N : Cousin Coat 654

CIARAN CARSON: Belfast Confetti 656

SHARON O L D S : Looking at My Father 657

T H O M GuNN:The Missing 659

LES MURRAY: Letters to the Winner 661

ROBERT BRiNGHURST:The Reader 663

1988 R . S .THOMAS:The Moor 664

YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA: Facing It 665

WOLE SOYINKA: After the Deluge 667

J O H N ASHBERY: Down by the Station, Early in the

Morning 669

CHARLES BOYLE: The Chess Player 670

VII1989—2000 Endgames

1989 ELIZABETH SPIRES: The Woman on the Dump 675

Roo BORSON: After a Death 677

ELIZABETH SMiTHER:The Forecast for Night 678

SIMON ARMITAGE: Zoom! 679

CIARAN CARSON: Last Orders 680

IMTIAZ DHARKER: Purdah I 681

Toi DERRICOTTE: On the Turning Up of Unidentified

Black Female Corpses 683

MATTHEW SWEENEY: Breaches 685

1990 CAROL RUMENS: A Dialogue of Perestroishiks 686

EAVAN BOLAND: Outside History 688

ROBERT PINSKY: Shirt 689

GEOFFREY LEHMANN: Parenthood 691

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G W E N HARWOOD: Bone Scan 694

H U G O WILLIAMS: When I Grow Up 695

1991 MICHAEL LASKEY: Living with the Doctor 697

PETER GOLDSWORTHY: Mass for the Middle-Aged 699

J O H N FULLER: Kent 702

BILL MANHIRE: Jalopy: The End of Love 703

LUCILLE CLIFTON: white lady 704

J O H N ASH: Cigarettes 706

J O H N FORBES: Love Poem 708

DENISE LEVERTOV: Misnomer 710

IAN D U H I G : I'r Hen Iaith A'i Chaneuon 711

JACKIE KAY: ££££ 713

1992 SIMON ARMITAGE: Gooseberry Season 714

PAULINE STAINER: Sighting the Slave Ship 716

GLYN MAXWELL: Helene and Heloise 717

1993 ANDREW JOHNSTON: H O W to Talk 720

CHARLES BOYLE: Timur the Lame 721

DOUGLAS D U N N : A Game of Bowls 722

IMTIAZ DHARKER: Untitled 723

D O N PATERSON:The Scale of Intensity 725

1994 STEVE C H I M O M B O : Developments from the Grave 727

ANTHONY THWAITE: Philip Larkin in New Orleans 729

J O H N LEVETT: Early Warning 730

1995 MARY J O SALTER:A Kiss in Space 732

ANNE CARSON: God's Christ Theory 735

W. S. M E R W I N : A Taste 736

KEVIN HART: Her Kiss 738

J O H N KiNSELLA:The Fire in the Forty-four 739

AUGUST KLEINZAHLER: Going 741

ALAN JENKINS: Neighbours 743

1996 VIRGINIA HAMILTON ADAIR: One Ordinary Evening 744

MARK D O T Y : A Letter from the Coast 746

CHARLES SiMic:What the Gypsies Told My Grandmother

While She Was Still a Young Girl 749

CHRISTOPHER R E I D : Two-Dogs on a Pub Roof 750

LES MURRAY: It Allows a,Portrait in Line Scan at Fifteen 753

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1997 JAMIE MCKENDRICK: Legacies 756

SELIMA HILL: Red Cows 758

1998 VINCENT O'SULLIVAN: Seeing YOU Asked 759

GLYN MAXWELL: Deep Sorriness Atonement Song 760

1999 SOPHIE HANNAH: None of the Blood 762

HUGO WILLIAMS: Her News 763

CAROL ANN DUFFY: The Devil's Wife 764

YVETTE CHRISTIANSE: Sunday School 767

BRIAN MCCABE: Hand 768

ROBERT GRAY: In Departing Light 769

2000 CHRISTOPHER R E I D : Bollockshire 775

ROGER FINCH: Dancing in the Churchill Lounge 779

D O N COLES: Kurgan No. 10 780

KAREN PRESS: Hope for Refugees 783

KIT WRIGHT: Hoping It Might Be So 785

JEFFREY HARRISON: Pale Blue City 786

Acknowledgements 789

Index of poets and titles 801

Index of First Lines 853

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