Thumbscrew Back Issues

Issue 1: Craig Raine on Translation and Swearing, Miroslav Holub on Slaveries Ancient and Modern, Christopher Logue interviewed, poems by Vladimir Nabokov, Dorothy Nimmo, Miroslav Holub.

Issue 2: Ted Hughes on Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Lowry on the problem with women’s anthologies, Ian Hamilton on Bishop, recently-discovered stories by Louis MacNeice, poems by Ewart, O’Donoghue, Stallworthy.

Issue 3: Charles Simic on the Art of Invective, Karl Miller on Hugo Williams, Adam Czerniawski, Ian Duhig interviewed, Philip Hobsbaum on Longley, Ian Sansom on Armitage.

Issue 4: Paul Muldoon interviewed, Donald Davie on Translation, David Kennedy on Charles Boyle, Brendan Kennelly on Bernard O’Donoghue, poems by Carol Rumens.

Issue 5: Peter McDonald on Seamus Heaney, Michael Hulse on Helen Vendler, Julian Stannard on Michael Hofmann, Elizabeth Lowry on W.S. Graham, poems by Paterson, Reid, Redmond.

Issue 6: Neil Corcoran on T.S. Eliot, John Lyon on Tony Harrison, Justin Quinn on Martians, David Kennedy on Romanian Poetry, poems by Adcock, Allen, Stevenson, Liardet.

Issue 7: Irish Special: Edna Longley on Tom Paulin, Carol Rumens on Seamus Heaney, Steve Burt on Muldoon, Dennis O’Driscoll on back-slapping, poems by Longley, McDonald, Groarke, Scammell.

Issue 8: Lavinia Greenlaw interviewed, Sheenagh Pugh on Planet Alice, John Redmond on Auden, Adam Czerniawski on Polish poetry, poems by Greenlaw, Roper, Scammell, Wheatley.

Issue 9: Plath Special: Adcock, Kinsella, Ryan, Quinn, Korelitz (all on Plath), Kerrigan on Peter Reading, Allen on O’Driscoll, poems by Paterson, Knight, Copus, Ford, Sonnenberg.

Issue 10: Celebratory Issue: Raine on Frost, Stevenson on Bishop, Edna Longley on Hughes, Rumens on Adcock, Corcoran on Fallon, Miller on Scots poetry, poems by Simic, Stevenson, O’Driscoll.

Issue 11: Poems by Heaney, Holub, Nimmo, O’Donoghue, Groarke, McDonald, Salzman, Agee on Bosnian Poetry, Russell on O’Brien v. Croft, Endnotes on the Gentle Art of 'Poetry-Stealing'.