Magazine Supplements – Agenda Poetry

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All of the Agenda issues below have been edited and published by Patricia McCarthy since she took on the sole editorship of Agenda after the death of William Cookson in January 2003.

Patricia McCarthy has also compiled and edited all of the following Broadsheets, Poems & Painting supplements and the ongoing series, Notes for Broadsheet Poets (in the journal and online).
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Vol 45 No. 2

Vol 49 Nos. 3-4

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Vol 39 No.4

Vol 44 No.4 / Vol 45 No. 1

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Weatherings Volume 55 Nos.1-2 Published 14th April 2022

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The Weatherings issue of Agenda, vol 55 nos 1-2, has several special features. There are elegies for three great poets who died regrettably towards the end of last year: Grey Gowrie, Thomas Kinsella and Brendan Kennelly, all of whom will be much missed, even though their voices will live on.

There are in-depth interviews with two multiple award-winnng poets: David Harsent, and James Harpur. In keeping with the Agenda tradition to give space to the long poem, here long poems or sequences are interspersed with more compact poems so the reader can dip in and out of whatever poem they fancy. Poets include known and lesser known voices such as John F Deane, Peter Dale, Jane Lovell, Jeremy Hooker, David Cooke, Gerard Smyth, Peter Carpenter, Greg Delanty, Mary O’Donnell among others; translations of Paul Éluard, Marina Tsvetaeva and Rilke by Timothy Adès, Belinda Cooke and Will Stone respectively, with a chosen young poet, Betty Doyle.

There is a variety of stimulating reviews, and a special treat in the Notes for Broadsheet Poets series, with edited sections of C Day Lewis’s essay ‘Making a Poem’, presented by Professor Albert Gelpi, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the death of this somewhat undeservedly neglected poet.
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Accompanying the Weatherings issue of Agenda are the following

poems and paintings

Contributors:

Featured artists: Johnny Marsh and Mary Harris

Poems: David Harsent, Hilary Davies, Jane Lovell, Dylan Willoughby, Diana Cant,
Erica Collier, Bernadette Gallagher, Kate Ashton, Shanta Acharya, Timothy Houghton,
Judith Shalan, Peter Carpenter, Omar Sabbagh, Indran Amirthanayagam, Colin Bancroft,
C.P. Nield, Lenny Emmanuel and Greg Delanty

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The following Translations/Versions accompany the Weatherings issue of Agenda

‘Wires’ by Marina Tsvetaeva translated by Belinda Cooke

Horace’s Phantom Hero – Latin! translated by Timothy Adès

Nicole Waldner – an essay for János Pilinszky’s Centenary (1921-1981)

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The following reviews accompany the Weatherings issue of Agenda

Editor’s note: For the essays/reviews, special features and translations some wonderful Ukranian artists have been showcased since the suffering in Ukraine must be in the backs of everyone’s mind and the soul of these people is honoured in paint. The paintings were chosen by Ursula O’Reilly Traynor, widow of Shaun, a dear friend and fine poet .
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W S Milne on

Antony Mair, A Suitcase Filled With Hope (Live Cannon Press, 2021)
Mara Bergman, The Night We Were Dylan Thomas (Arc Publications, 2021)

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James Harpur on

Mick Evans: Light Airs (Cinnamon Press)

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Merryn Williams on

Elizabeth Cook: When I kiss the sky (Worple Press)
Denise Riley: Lurex (Picador Poetry)
Billy Collins: Whale Day (Picador Poetry)

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Omar Sabbagh on

Mirrors and Carnivals
On Abhay K’s
The Alphabets of Latin America (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Shanta Acharya on

Elemental Natures by Lance Lee
Universe, USA. 2021.

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John O’Donoghue on

Michael McCarthy, Like A Tree Cut Back (Smith|Doorstop, 2021)

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David Cooke on

Sean Ó Ríordáin: Apathy Is Out, Selected Poems
Apathy is Out / Ni Ceadmhach Neamhshuim, Selected Poems / Rogha Dánta by Seán Ó Ríordain translated by Greg Delanty. £12.99. Bloodaxe Books in association with Cló Iar-Chonnacht
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Professor Albert Gelpi celebrates Cecil Day-Lewis with an introduction to a special selection of his poems.

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Tread Softly… Irish Poets in the UK Vol 54 Nos.3-4 Published June 2021

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Tread Softly… draws together not just the Irish and English, but also groups within these two general groups such as Irish poets brought up in Ireland but who come to reside in the UK, poets brought up here but whose parents were migrants of one sort or another. And then, of course, there is the great band of Northern Irish poets who are differently Irish in the UK, since Northern Ireland remains part of the UK. Here there are two splinter groups: poets (such as Heaney, Montague) brought up in the Catholic religion, and those linked to the Protestant ascendancy such as Derek Mahon, and Michael Longley English by birth but brought up and a long-time resident in the North of Ireland – all of whom, of course, transcend the limits of their tribe.
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Accompanying the Tread Softly… issue of Agenda are the following

poems and paintings

Contributors:

Artwork: Sarah Longley

Poems: Tim O’Leary, Maurice Riordan, Cathy Galvin, John Freeman, Caitríona O’Reilly, Elizabeth Barton, Ben Keatinge, Carl Walsh, Liz Byrne
Myra Schneider, John O’Donoghue, Vona Groarke, Steven O’Brien, Joseph Horgan, John McAuliffe, Fred Johnston and Michael Lynch.

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The following reviews accompany the Tread softly… issue of Agenda

Roger Elkin: The Leading Question (The High Window, 2021) reviewed by Patrick Lodge

Peter McDonald: Five Psalms (Agenda Editions 2021) reviewed by James Gordon

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Altered Distances Vol 54 Nos. 1-2 Published November 2020

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This ‘Altered Distances’ issue brought out in the ‘new normal’ aims to avoid clichés and anything that might be interpreted as ’the hazards of trying to surf the wave of the now’ (Michael Laponte, TLS Oct 2, 2020).
The voices in these pages come from many different angles, rise above the mundane, and testify to the power of poetry, not only to console and comfort, but also to celebrate man’s spirit, and nature’s unfailing cycles of renewal.
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Accompanying the Altered Distances issue are the following:

Poems & Photographs

Anne Marie Glasheen’s daily haiku or senryu is accompanied by poetry from:

Angela Kirby, John Greening, Jane Lovell, Belinda Cooke, John Freeman,

Peter Stark, Vuyelwa Carlin, Dominic Alexander, Anne Ballard,

Tynyshtykbek Abdikakimuly, Charlie Baylis, Marie-Louise Eyres,

Peter O’Neill, Shanta Acharya, Sally Festing, John A Griffin, Rob Durkin,

Martin Jago, Jane Thorp, Wendy Holborow and Patricia Helen Wooldridge.

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The following reviews supplement the Altered Distances issue of Agenda

Sam Milne on Antony Mair, Let the wounded speak
Mario Petrucci, afterlove
Wendy Holborrow, Shipwrecked
Glyn Maxwell, How The Hell Are You

Anita Money on Shanta Acharya, What Survives Is The Singing

Patricia McCarthy on Martyn Crucefix, Cargo of Limbs

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Special features

W D Jackson and Peter Weltner

Review/Introduction by Chris McCully: W D Jackson’s Opus 3, re-printed from PN Review 253 by kind permission of Michael Schmidt, plus new poems and prose by W D Jackson: ‘Four Lieder’.

New poem by Peter Weltner. US poet Peter Weltner is highlighted in the ‘Altered Distances’ issue of Agenda (Vol 54 Nos 1-2). Patricia McCarthy interviews Peter both in the printed issue and here in the ‘Notes for Broadsheet Poets No.34‘
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Pound Reconsidered Vol 53 No.4 Published April 2020

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Accompanying the Pound Reconsidered issue are the following:

Poems & Paintings

Contributors:

Artwork: David Inshaw

Poems: David Moody, Stephen Romer, John Burnside, Tim O’Leary,
Nicola Warwick, Elizabeth Barton, David Sahner, John Greening, Elizabeth Ridout
John Haynes, David Cooke, Denise Bennett, Robert Selby, Robert Stein
Sue Mackrell, Clive Donovan, Alison Black, James Roberts, Omar Sabbagh
José Kozer, David Pollard, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Tony Hendry, Robin Daglish
Marie-Louise Eyres, Clair Chilvers,Sarah Salway and Chris Armstrong.

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The following essays/reviews supplement the Pound Reconsidered issue of Agenda.

Omar Sabbagh: Still Points and Turning Worlds
On Fiona Sampson’s Come Down (Corsair, 2020)

Konstandinos Mahoney: Poems by Colin Pink, woodcuts by Daniel Goodwin: The Ventriloquist Dummy’s Lament (Against the Grain, 2019)

Sally Festing: an essay on Germaine Richier: Widely Praised but Neglected

Peter Eagles: Anna Akhmatova: Ships sailing gently down the Neva
Marina Tsvetaeva: The Exiled Genius
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A.N.Wilson Blog post May 16th 2020: Return to Poundland
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Introduction taken from the Pound Reconsidered issue.

It was an honour for this special ‘Pound Reconsidered’ issue to present itself almost by magic via the wand of Professor David Moody whose contributions make up the backbone of these pages. It is very special that Agenda is publishing for the first time Pound’s early long poem ‘The Dawn’. It is a prose and verse sequence put together by Pound in London in 1909, never published, and thought lost. David Moody’s essay on The Muncie Papers also contains new material regarding the question of Pound’s sanity or insanity. As he says:

Dr Wendell Muncie was the psychiatrist appointed by Ezra Pound’s counsel to advise on his mental condition in 1945 at the time of his trial for treason. His papers relating to the examination of Pound were given to me earlier this year by his son, together with permission to publish. The papers, previously unseen by any of us who had written on the case, contain new information which throws into relief the conduct of the Justice Department, as well as that of Pound’s counsel, Julian Cornell, and of the psychiatrists, and calls for a revised account of the episode. It has been generally believed that the government was prevented from bringing Pound to trial by the plea of insanity and the psychiatrists’ collusion, but now it becomes clear that the government was in fact complicit in avoiding a trial. The other point of interest is that Muncie’s extensive notes reveal what was actually said by Pound to the psychiatrists examining him.
The essay does not touch on Pound as a poet. The new material came to me out of the blue after vol. 3 of my biography was out.

As many of you know, though some don’t, Agenda was actually founded by a young William Cookson – who was then at New College, Oxford – at the instigation of Ezra Pound. William’s Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound is illuminating and profoundly researched and very well worth delving into for readers who want an in-depth appreciation of the Cantos. In his essay ‘The Esemplastic Power’ in Agenda’s Special Issue in Honour of Ezra Pound’s Eighty-fifth Birthday (Vol 8, Nos 3-4, 1970), Hugh MacDiarmid strongly refutes the ‘widely entertained idea that Pound’s Cantos are a set of rag-bags filled with miscellaneous stuff insusceptible of any coherence or significance’. ‘On the contrary’, he claims, ‘it is obvious that we have here a great poet tirelessly intent on organising a tremendous wealth of material into indispensable elements of an epic poetic enterprise’. An epic work it certainly is in which the poet creates a whole unified cosmos, one that coheres brilliantly and can be studied forever with humility, yet at the same time so many of the poems can be appreciated for themselves, without notes, with delight for their own moving music, lyric beauty and spontaneous meaning. It is worth dipping into them, even casually, to find your own gems.

William did say to me, when I first knew him and he and Peter Dale, Associate Editor, had adopted my poetry which I sent them from Asia where I lived for a few years, that it was the biggest disappointment of his life that I had not read the whole of the Cantos. Maybe now is the time for this challenging long read.

Agenda, in William’s day, published I think three special Pound issues. I have two to my hand today, the one referred to above, and the Twenty-First Anniversary Ezra Pound Special Issue (Vol 17 Nos 3-4 – Vol 18 No 1). On one page I find John Heath-Stubbs’ appraisal:

Pound simply cannot be dismissed. He astonishes us and haunts us again
and again by the beauty and clarity of an image, by the melody of a phrase.
Anyone aspiring to the composition of verse should read and re-read him… What is to be learnt from Pound, for whom… his true Penelope was Flaubert, is, above all things, style.

Patricia McCarthy
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Anglo/French issue Vol 53 Nos.1-3 Published January 2020

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The following reviews supplement the Anglo/French issue of Agenda.

William Bedford on Elizabeth Ridout: Summon
David Pollard: Broken Voices
Jordi Doce: We were not there
Rachel Mann: A Kingdom of Love

Martyn Crucefix on Rilke in Paris, translated by Will Stone
Duino Elegies, translated by

Elizabeth Ridout on Birnam Wood / El Bosque de Birnam by José Manuel Cardona, translated from the Spanish by Hélène Cardona
Anne-Marie Fyfe: No Far Shore: Charting Unknown Waters
Marilyn Hacker: Blazons: New and Selected Poems, 2000-2018
Alfonso Reyes: Miracle of Mexico, translated by Timothy Adès

Patricia McCarthy on Jean Atkin: How Time Is In Fields
Janet Montefiore: Disposing of the Clothes and other poems
Robert Hamberger: Blue Wallpaper

W S Milne on Mimi Khalvati: Afterwardness
Naomi Foyle: Adamantine

M.C. Caseley on Gallop: Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2019) by Alison Brackenbury

Christina Cook interviews Marie-Claire Bancquart
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Poems & Paintings

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This Anglo/French issue, in which the focus is on mainly living French-speaking poets – with a few exceptions – surely demonstrates how the arts, such as paintings, sculptures, architecture, music, plus fiction and poetry have no boundaries, having been shared and swapped for centuries between cultures and countries.

Some might not be aware of Agenda’s long tradition of publishing and promoting important poets from all over the world. Regarding French poetry, Agenda brought out a French Poetry Issue, vol 15 No 4 in winter 1997/8 in which, as stated in the editorial, and like in this issue, the poems ‘range from ‘after’, through imitation, version, to full-blooded representation’ in order to produce good poems in English. Keith Bosley, Peter Dale, C H Sisson, Geoffrey Hill and Clare Sheppard were some of the translators involved.

The English or ‘Anglo’ sections in this issue contain the usual uplifting variety of poems, by well established, lesser known and new poets, some of them inspired by France.

Many thanks to all contributors, readers, subscribers, and to those whose advice and input have helped strengthen this issue.
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Ekphrastic issue Vol 52 Nos. 3-4 Published June 2019

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Accompanying the Ekphrastic issue are the following:

Poems & Paintings

Notes for Broadsheet Poets 31

Broadsheet 31

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The following essays/reviews supplement the Ekphrastic issue of Agenda

Patrick White: Featured Ekphrastic essay

Ben Screech on U.A. Fanthorpe

Justina Hart on Myra Schneider

Mandy Pannett on Isabella Morra and Caroline Maldonado

Elizabeth Ridout on Zoe Brigley, Tony Roberts, Pat Boran

Patricia McCarthy on Angela Kirby, Jane Lovell, Rebecca Goss, Julia Copus,

Jessica Mookherjee, Theresa Lola

Elizabeth Ridout on Anne Stewart, Naomi Jaffa, Kay Syrad

Ekphrasis: poetic practice – Wunderkammer with Black Coffee: Helen Ivory Interviewed by William Bedford, courtesy of The High Window

Obituary – Tom Leonard 1944—2018
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Ekphrasis, from the Greek, traditionally referred to a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a work of art. However, modern poets have mostly broadened the term and try to interpret, inhabit, confront and speak to their subjects. This issue of Agenda sees ekphrastic poetry as one art form being inspired by another, whether it be painting, sculpture, photography, film or music.
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1918 Vol 52 Nos.1-2 Published October 2018

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The following essays/review supplement the 1918 issue of Agenda

Shanta Acharya: Politics of Home: Place and Identity

W S Milne: The World of Light

James Harpur: The White Silhouette

Belinda Cooke: Translating Kulager by Ilias Jansugurov

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Accompanying the 1918 issue are the following:

Poems and Paintings

Notes for Broadsheet Poets 30

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This special 1918 issue seeks to commemorate and honour all those who fought in WW1 and all those who suffered from their grievous losses. It does not seek, through the poems included, to replicate in any way the grave poems, now also historical documents, written by the soldiers in WW1, most of whom sacrificed their lives. They have a very special place in our hearts and in the national archive. It does, however, seek to demonstrate how, deep in our psyches, that supposed ‘war to end all wars’ lives on today, and becomes transmuted differently, yet importantly.
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T S Eliot Special issue Vol 51 Nos. 3-4 Published January 2018

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Accompanying the T S Eliot Special issue are the following:

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The following essays/reviews supplement the T S Eliot Special Issue of Agenda

Roula Maria Dib: The Waste Land: A Dali-esque Counterpart

Roland John: Pound’s Posthumous Cantos

William Bedford: Abegail Morley’s In the Curator’s Hands

Michael Loveday: Myra Schneider’s Persephone in Finsbury Park

Anita Money: Shanta Acharya’s Imagine: New & Selected Poems

W S Milne: Josephine Balmer’s Letting Go and Paths of Survival
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In this special issue, we are honoured to have renowned specialists giving us great insight into T S Eliot, and his poetry, with original and different perspectives, from many unusual angles. The poets included here, too, attest to poetry as a vital living force in our turbulent, wayward times.
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Testaments Vol 51 Nos.1-2 Published June 2017

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The following essays/reviews supplement the Testaments issue of Agenda

W S Milne: La Divina Commedia and The Art of Poetry

Tony Roberts: Archibald MacLeish’s Star

Byron Beynon: The Poet Idris Davies (1905-1953)

A brief introduction to his life and work
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Accompanying the Testaments issue are the following:

Poems & Paintings

Notes for Broadsheet Poets 29

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Welcome to this Testaments issue of Agenda. We are delighted to have the pen and ink drawings of Sarah Longley, daughter of Michael Longley (whose new collection is reviewed on page 66) to separate each section in this issue.
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Power of Poetry Vol 50 Nos. 3-4 Published February 2017

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Accompanying The Power of Poetry issue are the following:

Poems & Paintings

Notes for Broadsheet Poets 28

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The following essays supplement the The Power of Poetry issue of Agenda

Tony Roberts: The Hard Losses of Louise Glück

Mary Woodward: ‘Luminous praise of the ordinary ‘

The poetry of Rachel Wetzteon (1967-2009)
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This issue of Agenda demonstrates poetry’s power to contribute importantly to fields such as refugees, immigration, autism, dementia, cancer, death, including the loss of a child, mental ill-health and violence, proving poetry’s fundamental role in the well-being of all human beings.
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Homage to Geoffrey Hill Vol 50 Nos.1-2 Published September 2016

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The following essay is in the supplement to the ‘Homage to Geoffrey Hill‘ issue.

Fiona Sampson: The Music Makers
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Accompanying the Homage to Geoffrey Hill issue are the following:

Poems and paintings

Notes for Broadsheet Poets 27

Broadsheet 27

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Geoffrey Hill has long been associated with Agenda and highlighted as being the most formidable, challenging, important English poet of our day, or indeed any day. It is humbly hoped that the tributes in this issue, whether elegies or pieces of prose, the powerful portrait painting, and the images in black and white – all by Keith Grant – and indeed the poems in general written before Geoffrey‘s death form a respectful wreath for his fierce and dear shade.

Christopher Ricks called him long ago ‘a poet at once urgent and timeless’.

Peter Levi summed him up as ‘ the great cellist of contemporary poets’.
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Vol 45 No. 2

Vol 49 Nos. 3-4

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Vol 39 No.4

Vol 44 No.4 / Vol 45 No.1

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