Section two
The Literary Desk
Poetry and literary magazines in the UK: where to read them, where to send work, and what one of them published.
UK poetry magazinesThe directory: titles, publishers and submission windows.Poetry competitionsDeadlines, entry fees and free-entry contests.Magazine coversFamous covers taken apart, element by element.
35The Wolf, issue by issueA shelf of every numbered issue, each linked to its items.213People, A to ZPoets, translators, interviewers and reviewers, with their items.
From The Wolf
The Wolf was a British poetry magazine. These are descriptions of its interviews, reviews and poems, listed by kind and issue.
Interviews22
- Michael Donaghy interviewed by Nicholas Cobic, The Wolf issue 1Issue 1
- Mimi Khalvati on teaching, voice and political poetryIssue 3
- Roddy Lumsden in conversation with Niall O'SullivanIssue 4
- Neil Astley of Bloodaxe Books interviewed by James ByrneIssue 5
- Sarah Maguire on translation, Flora Poetica and form: an interviewIssue 6
- John Stammers interviewed by James Byrne on Panoramic Lounge-Bar and love poetryIssue 7
- George Szirtes interviewed by James Byrne on Reel, form and memoryIssue 9
- Penelope Shuttle in conversation with James Byrne, The Wolf issue 10Issue 10
- David Harsent in conversation with James Byrne, The Wolf issue 11Issue 11
- Gaarriye (Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac) interviewed by James ByrneIssue 12
- Carolyn Forché in conversation with Sandeep Parmar, The Wolf issue 14Issue 14
- Saadi Youssef interviewed by Leilah Nadir and James ByrneIssue 15
- Seven poetry editors answer James Byrne's questions on publishingIssue 17
- Dante Micheaux interviews Derek Walcott about White EgretsIssue 21
- The Wolf Interview: Charles Simic in conversation with James ByrneIssue 24
- Fady Joudah in Conversation with Marilyn HackerIssue 25
- The Wolf Interview: Charles Bernstein, questioned by Stephen RossIssue 28
- Ariel Resnikoff interviews Jerome Rothenberg on Likht, Zukofsky and outside poetryIssue 31
- The Wolf Interview: Vahni Capildeo in conversation with Sandeep ParmarIssue 34
- Clayton Eshleman interviewed by Niall McDevitt in The Wolf
- Charles Bernstein interviewed by Stephen Ross: Dickinson, nothing and transition
- The Wolf Interview: Robert Sheppard on unwriting, the sonnet and performance
Reviews25
- Reviews of Paul Farley's The Ice Age and John Burnside's The Light TrapIssue 1
- James Byrne reviews Billy Collins's Nine HorsesIssue 3
- James Byrne reviews Peter Redgrove's From the Virgil CavernsIssue 4
- Niall O'Sullivan reviews August Kleinzahler's The Strange Hours Travelers KeepIssue 7
- Being Alive, edited by Neil Astley: a review of the Bloodaxe anthologyIssue 8
- James Byrne reviews Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Miracle Maker, translated by Khaled MattawaIssue 9
- Niall O'Sullivan reviews Matthew Caley and the Reactions 5 anthologyIssue 11
- Niall O'Sullivan reviews Matthew Caley's The Scene of My Former TriumphIssue 11
- Stephen Watts reviews Will Stone's translation of Georg TraklIssue 12
- Redgrove's Wife by Penelope Shuttle, reviewed in The WolfIssue 13
- Mark Leech reviews African poetry: Ojaide, p'Bitek and AnyidohoIssue 13
- David Amery reviews the collected poems of David KesselIssue 14
- Review of From the Notebooks by Harry Fainlight, by Niall McDevittIssue 15
- From the Notebooks by Harry Fainlight, reviewed in The WolfIssue 15
- Pamphlet Reviews: Faber New Poets (2009), by Gillian GraftonIssue 22
- Kate Daniels reviews Mahmoud Darwish's A River Dies of Thirst: DiariesIssue 22
- Charles Bernstein's All the Whiskey in Heaven reviewed by Stephen RossIssue 24
- Niall McDevitt reviews John Ashbery's translation of Rimbaud's IlluminationsIssue 25
- Helen Moore reviews John Kinsella's The Vision of Error, a sextet of activist poemsIssue 30
- Tom Jenks reviews Chris McCabe: In the Catacombs and SpeculatrixIssue 32
- Lindsay Turner reviews C.D. Wright's ShallCross and The Poet, the LionIssue 34
- Ashbery's Rimbaud: a review of the Illuminations translation
- Catherine Gander reviews Muriel Rukeyser's Selected Poems, edited by Adrienne Rich
- Ruth Ling reviews Valérie Rouzeau's Talking Vrouz, translated by Susan Wicks
- Omar Sabbagh reviews Ghassan Zaqtan's Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me
Poems27
- Dido, a poem by Sasha Dugdale in The Wolf, issue 10Issue 10
- Kudu, a poem by Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac 'Gaarriye'Issue 11
- Aubade: poem by Alvin Pang, with an epigraph from Mahmoud DarwishIssue 18
- Animal City, a poem sequence about Bombay by Siddhartha BoseIssue 19
- Lilith As A Babe, a poem by Margo Berdeshevsky in The WolfIssue 20
- Pathfinder, a poem by James Womack in The Wolf issue 20Issue 20
- The Aztec: poem by Tomaž Šalamun, translated from the SlovenianIssue 21
- After Reading Wallace Stevens, a poem by Anna SmaillIssue 22
- Cheiromancy: poem by Alfred Corn from The Wolf, issue 23Issue 23
- Eternities, a poem by Charles Simic in The Wolf issue 24Issue 24
- Soldiers: poem by Golan Haji, translated from the Arabic by the authorIssue 24
- You're Not Alone in the Wilderness by Ghassan Zaqtan, trans. Fady JoudahIssue 25
- Bliss, a poem by Robert Kelly in The Wolf issue 25Issue 25
- Slide Show: poem by Zeyar Lynn, translated from the Burmese by ko ko thettIssue 26
- Shooting Sportsmen: poem by Golan Haji, translated from the Arabic by the authorIssue 27
- Sylt I, a poem by Valzhyna Mort, in The Wolf issue 27Issue 27
- The Sixties, with Apologies: poem by Charles Bernstein, The Wolf 28Issue 28
- Ponderosa Lemon, a poem by Ange Mlinko in The Wolf, issue 29Issue 29
- Back Home: poem by John Hennessy from The Wolf, issue 30Issue 30
- The Repossessor, a poem by Chris McCabeIssue 31
- Wangfujing - Summer Palace, a poem by Yang Lian translated by Brian HoltonIssue 32
- After Hávamál, a poem by Vahni Capildeo in The Wolf, issue 34Issue 34
- Thank You Hitler, a poem by Jeremy Quinn
- The Spider, a poem by Annie Brechin, published in The Wolf
- The Octagonal Tower, a poem by Sandeep Parmar
- Van Gogh's Room, a poem by Will Stone
- Windows by Guillaume Apollinaire, a version by Matthew John Williams
Prose1
Features9
- Branko Miljkovic: Killed by a Too Powerful Word, by Nicholas CobicIssue 1
- Excerpt from a 1981 letter from Harry Fainlight to Ruth FainlightIssue 17
- Scientist into Poet: Neil Roberts on the emergence of Peter RedgroveIssue 18
- Ordering Bottom: Richard Parker on Louis Zukofsky and his Shakespeare bookIssue 19
- Contemporary Burmese Poetry: a survey by Htein Lin and Vicky BowmanIssue 21
- Editorial by Sandeep Parmar on race and the avant-garde, The Wolf issue 31Issue 31
- Robert Sheppard on Christopher Middleton: Artifice and ArtificersIssue 31
- Christian Campbell: Manifesto of S, on Brixton, Windrush and writing RudicalIssue 33
- Lyric Voice and You: Notes on Addressability by Christopher MaddenIssue 33
Issue contents25
- The Wolf issue 1, September 2002: table of contentsIssue 1
- The Wolf 1, September 2002: contents of the first print issueIssue 1
- Contents of The Wolf, issue 2 (January 2003)Issue 2
- The Wolf issue 7, July 2004: table of contentsIssue 7
- The Wolf 13, October 2006: poems, reviews, interview and launch audioIssue 13
- The Wolf issue 15, July 2007: an overviewIssue 15
- Contents of The Wolf, issue 15 (July 2007)Issue 15
- The Wolf, issue 16 (November 2007): home page and issue overviewIssue 16
- Contents of The Wolf, issue 17 (April 2008)Issue 17
- The Wolf issue 18 (August 2008): contents of the print editionIssue 18
- The Wolf issue 21, August 2009: contentsIssue 21
- The Wolf issue 21 (2009): contents with a Derek Walcott interviewIssue 21
- The Wolf, issue 23 (June 2010): poems, interview and essay on George OppenIssue 23
- The Wolf, issue 25: poems, interviews and reviews listed by contributorIssue 25
- The Wolf issue 26, April 2012: contentsIssue 26
- The Wolf issue 28, July 2013: table of contentsIssue 28
- The Wolf 30, July 2014: contents with Kaminsky, Burt and HennessyIssue 30
- The Wolf issue 31, December 2014: poems, editorial and interviewsIssue 31
- The Wolf issue 31, December 2014: contentsIssue 31
- The Wolf 32: contents of the issue with poems and expanded reviewsIssue 32
- The Wolf issue 33: contents with poems and proseIssue 33
- Contents of The Wolf, issue 33: poems, an artist and a conversationIssue 33
- The Wolf issue 34: contents and featured interviewIssue 34
- The Wolf issue 35: contents, the final print issueIssue 35
- The Wolf issue index: numbers 1 to 19, 2002 to 2008
About the magazine11
- News from The Wolf: events, a Spanish workshop and issue 19Issue 19
- The Wolf 35: editorial by James Byrne and contents of the final printed issueIssue 35
- About The Wolf: a poetry magazine's own account of its aims and team
- Audio: poems read by their authors, from The Wolf
- The Wolf poetry magazine: print and digital copies, anthology and stockists
- The Wolf: frequency of publication, editor and submissions pointer
- James Byrne, editor of The Wolf magazine, and the site's credits
- James Byrne, editor and co-founder of The Wolf poetry magazine
- The Wolf: a poetry magazine edited by James Byrne
- Photographs from The Wolf launch readings, issues 3 to 17
- The Wolf's submissions policy: poetry, critical prose and artwork