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The Wolf issue 21 (2009): contents with a Derek Walcott interview

Derek Walcott · Kathleen Palti

This is the table of contents for issue 21 of The Wolf, linked to August 2009. The poetry list includes Tomaž Šalamun, Mariano Peyrou, David Morley, Paul Stubbs, Penelope Shuttle, Alvin Pang with a poem called Thirteen ways of looking at a snowscape, Valeria Melchioretto, Adam Wiedemann, Amjad Nasser, Fady Joudah, Will Stone, Pascale Petit, Annie Finch, Roland Orcsik, Kadir Aydemir and Philip Fried. A separate group presents contemporary Burmese poetry from Hyma Ein, Manorhary and Phone Thet Paing.

The prose section opens with an interview with Derek Walcott. It also lists an essay by Kathleen Palti on British women writing what she calls wild poetry. Four books are reviewed: Basil Bunting's Briggflatts, Mourid Barghouti's Midnight, the Collected Poems of Christopher Middleton, and John Kinsella's Burning Off, described as a late addition to his Auto sequence covering May 2008 to April 2009. Contributors and acknowledgements end the list.

Poems in this selection

  • The Aztec
  • Taken Away
  • Afterworldsmen
  • Bower
  • A Gamekeeper's Ghost
  • Holy Numbers
  • Fatal Thrust
  • Diego and I
  • Tarot
  • Overview
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