Editor: Tim Kendall

Editorial Board: Fiona Mathews, John Redmond, Ian Sansom

Address for correspondence: Thumbscrew, P.O. Box 657, Oxford OX2 6PH, UK (or via e-mail)

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In a poetry world which can all too often seem insular and chummy, Thumbscrew also sets out to provoke critical debate with a series of essays re-evaluating the reputations of several 'major' contemporary poets. Although not always popular, hopefully we're never dull.

Review: Craig Raine by Carol Rumens
Review: John Ashbery by Marjorie Perloff
Essay: Happiness by Charles Simic
Review: Charles Simic by Helena Nelson
Review: Andrew McNeillie by Anne Stevenson
Review Essay: William Empson by Graham Nelson
Featured Poet: Rebecca Elson
Review: Longley's 20th Century Poetry by Fran Brearton
Review: Charles Wright by John Redmond
Review: Donald Davie by Stephen Burt
Review: Norman Cameron by John Lucas
Review: Fleur Adcock by Polly Clark
Letters: Lumsden, Gifford
Review: Jorie Graham by David Kennedy
Review: Strong Words by Floyd Skloot
Review: Ieronim and Carson by Fiona Sampson
Review: Derek Walcott by Andrew McNeillie
Review: Don Marquis by John Lee
Interview: Fay Godwin by Terry Gifford
Review: The Making of a Poem by Richard King
Odds and Ends: The T. S. Eliot Prize
Notes on Contributors

Poems
Carol Rumens; Lucia Perillo; Charles Simic; Charles Bennett; Jonathan Wonham; Andrew McNeillie; Gregory Warren Wilson; Jeremy Over; Charles Wright; John Hollander; Ben Sonnenberg; Angela Dove; Matthew Barton; Tony Flynn; Robert Saxton; Simon Carnell; Floyd Skloot; Billy Collins; Virgil Suarez; Christopher Brisson; Monica Youn; Todd Pierce; Kathryn Daszkiewicz; Michael Laskey; John Greening.

Thumbscrew Archives

• Reviews and Review Essays - Fleur Adcock on Plath; Fran Brearton on Michael Longley; Stephen Burt on Randall Jarrell; Neil Chilton on Peter Reading; Kate Clanchy on Hughes; Philip Coleman on John Berryman; Terry Gifford on Hughes; Edna Longley on Hughes; John Lyon on Geoffrey Hill; Graham Nelson on Ponge; on French Poetry/Ciaran Carson; and on Hughes's Oresteia; Bernard O'Donoghue on Poetry's Concern; John Redmond on New Blood; Sheenagh Pugh on Carol Ann Duffy; on Anne Stevenson; Anne Stevenson on Plath's Journals; David Wheatley on Les Murray.
• Poets - Fergus Allen; Simon Carnell; Kate Clanchy; Alice Fulton; Lavinia Greenlaw; Paul Groves; Seamus Heaney; Diana Hendry; Stephen Knight; Joanne Limburg; Andrew McNeillie; Paul Muldoon; Les Murray; Emma Neale; Lucia Perillo; Colin Robinson; Peter Robinson; Charles Simic; Jenny Swann; Dan Wyke.
• Odds and Ends: Eliot Memorial Prize; Lumsden, Maxwell; McGough Revisited; Motion; Shapcott.
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