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The Wolf issue 18 (August 2008): contents of the print edition

This is the table of contents for issue 18 of The Wolf, dated August 2008. The poetry section lists work by Alvin Pang, Adam Day, Josephine Balmer, Wang Xiaoni, Ellen Hinsey, Brian Henry, Norbert Hirschhorn, Mary Michaels, Penelope Shuttle, Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkalo, Ailbhe Darcy, C L Dallat, O M Lamb, Nina Zivancevic, Simon Turner, Nanos Valaoritis and Miltos Sachtouris, with two poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky. Titles include Aubade, Diorama, Betraying Cloth and On the Death of Angus Fairhurst.

The section headed reviews, poems and critical prose has selections from the notebooks of Peter Redgrove and his poem Thou Makest For Me A Skin, together with an essay on the emergence of Redgrove as a scientist turned poet. Paul Morand's Nice, in Ezra Pound's translation, is reintroduced. Further items are a piece on choosing a Poet Laureate, reviews of debut collections by Peter Davidson, Kelly Grovier and Valeria Melchioretto, a review of Stephen Romer's Yellow Studio, a conversation with Robert Minhinnick, and an essay on James Merrill's postmodern breakthrough with his poem A Tenancy. Contributors and acknowledgements close the list.

Poems in this selection

  • Aubade
  • Diorama
  • Landed
  • Betraying Cloth
  • Skin & Stain
  • Ezra Pound is Dead
  • A Tenancy
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