Jacket 20 — December 2002 — Contents page* Focus: Cambridge, England *Feature: Veronica Forrest-Thomson, 1947–1975 Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Cambridge, 1972, copyright © Jonathan Culler 1972, 2001 Brian Kim Stefans: Veronica Forrest-Thomson and High Artifice — NOTE: This article is in Jacket 14
J.H. Prynne: Veronica Forrest-Thomson: A Personal Memoir (1976) Veronica Forrest-Thomson: five poems Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Swinburne as Poet: a reconsideration (an unpublished essay) Swinburne Chronology — 1837 to 1909 Veronica Forrest-Thomson: A letter to G.S. Fraser George Fraser: poem: A Napkin with Veronica’s Face, not Christ’s James Keery: ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ and the Levels of Artifice: Veronica Forrest-Thomson on J.H. Prynne — a fifty-page analysis of VF-T’s analysis of J.H. Prynne’s poem ‘Of Sanguine Fire’ Peter Robinson reviews Veronica Forrest-Thomson: On the Periphery (from Perfect Bound magazine, Cambridge, Number 1, 1976.) Robert Sheppard: poem: Parody and Pastoral Suzanne Raitt reviews Alison Mark, Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Language Poetry The Aspidistra Cult: Articles and Reviews Andrew Duncan: A Various Art and the Cambridge Leisure Centre Andrew Duncan reviews Trevor Joyce, a body of work 1966–2000 William Empson Andrew Duncan reviews Paul Holman, Helen Macdonald, and DS Marriott Paddy Fraser: G.S. Fraser, A Memoir... ‘Like many Scotsmen, George had strong appetites and an even stronger sense of guilt about indulging them.’ Jérôme Game: Anti-Freeze, by Keston Sutherland John Kerrigan: Paul Muldoon’s Transits John Kinsella: Cambridge Notes (1996) Rod Mengham: Bourgeois News: Humphrey Jennings and Charles Madge (‘We are [...] working out a complete plan of campaign, which will be possible when we have not fifty but 5,000 observers. The following are a few examples of problems that will arise: Behaviour of people at war memorials. Shouts and gestures of motorists. The aspidistra cult...’) Kate Price: Experiment magazine, 1928–31 — William Empson, William Hare, Jacob Bronowski, Hugh Sykes Davies and Humphrey Jennings.
Photo of William Empson (detail, above, right) copyright © the Master and Fellows, Hugh Sykes-Davies
Hugh Sykes Davies —
George Watson — ‘Remembering Prufrock’ — Hugh Sykes Davies 1909–1984 Hugh Sykes Davies, Four Poems:
‘Decline of Phæthon’ (1929) ‘Sententiæ’ (1931) ‘In the stump of an old tree...’ (1936) ‘It doesn't look like a finger...’ (1938) Hugh Sykes Davies, Prose: Sympathies with Surrealism (1936) Review of Narration, by Gertrude Stein (1936) John Kerrigan: Checklist of the publications of Hugh Sykes Davies Cambridge gargoyle
Five poets and an essay Durs Grünbein, from ‘Variation auf kein Thema’ Tim Morris, ‘Dramatis Personæ’ Keston Sutherland, ‘Ten Past Nine’ John Wilkinson, ‘The Line of Definition’ David Hess: Letter to Kent Shaw (on Li-Young Lee).
Feature: Parataxis magazine (Cambridge, UK) Andrea Brady: Song (for Florida) Fanny Howe: excerpt from Reconstruction Simon Jarvis: Quality and the non-identical in J.H.Prynne’s ‘Aristeas, in seven years’ Rod Mengham: Down in the Mouth Drew Milne: Agoraphobia, and the embarrassment of manifestos Drew Milne reviews Poets on Writing: Britain, 1970–1991, Ed. Denise Riley Dell Olsen: from Corrupted by Showgirls Neil Reeve and Richard Kerridge: Deaf to Meaning: On J.H.Prynne's The Oval Window Denise Riley: Knowing in the real world Keston Sutherland: Ritalin Daiquiri John Wilkinson: Getting Shot Of It Parataxis magazine feature: Contemporary Chinese poetry Poems: Che Qianzi Zhou Yaping Yi Cun Huang Fan Hong Liu Prose: Zhou Yaping: Letter to J.H. Prynne Huang Fan: Poetry’s new shore: Language Jeff Twitchell: Note on the translations Feature: Perfect Bound magazine, 1976 to 1979 Interview: Nate Dorward talks to editor Peter Robinson about Perfect Bound magazine, issued from Cambridge from 1976 to 1979
Contents list: Over twenty pages of writing from Perfect Bound magazine: J. H. Prynne: The Land of Saint Martin John James: After Christopher Wood Peter Robinson: Veronica Forrest-Thomson: On the Periphery John Matthias: After the Death of Chekhov Rod Mengham: from Beds & Scrapings John Wilkinson: Political Health
Aidan Semmens: The Strange Geometry Wendy Mulford: Chinese Postcard Sequence Peter Riley: Digest of the Poetical Works of Dora Oliver Geoffrey Ward: It’s My Town (But I Had to Leave It) Elaine Feinstein: Two Lyrics From ‘An England Sequence’ John Barrell: A Lyrical Ballad Marcus Perryman: from Outposts Poems Bob Cobbing and Robert Sheppard: ‘Blatent blather/virulent whoops’ Robert Hampson: ‘the beacon’, ‘no signal detected’, and ‘eroded marks’ Lawrence Joseph, ‘Stop Me If I've Told You’ David Kennedy, ‘Minster’, or ‘Liber Lathomorum’ John Kinsella: Four (Cambridge) poems David Marriott, ‘De L’autocritique’ Drew Milne, from ‘Ill at these numbers’
Peter Robinson, ‘Pressure Cooker Noise’ and ‘Living in the Workroom’ * Cambridge Scenic Vignettes by John Tranter * |
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