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July 1985

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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Philip Booth
Dannie Abse
James Berry
David Constantine
John Fuller

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1985

Table of Contents

John Fuller
Craig Raine
- The Explorers
Peter Redgrove
- More than Meets the Eye
- Eden's Medicine
David Constantine
- Sunken Cities
Penelope Shuttle
- The Hell-Bender
- The Knife Knows How
Medbh McGuckian
- Ylang-Ylang
Anne Stevenson
Carol Rumens
- Camouflage
Peter Porter
- To Be on the Safe Side
- Susannah and the Elders
Dennis O'Driscoll
- Normally Speaking
- Time Sharing
Bill Smith
- Windy Bank
Peter Scupham
- A Box of Ghosts
- Observer Corps: 1940
Hugo Williams
- Unfinished Poem
- Waiting to Go On
Michael Hofmann
- Not Talking
James Berry
- What Is No Good?
Dannie Abse
- Bloody Horse

Comment

Philip Booth
- Contemporary British Poetry: A Romantic Persistence?

Contributors
- - John Fuller
  - Craig Raine
  - Peter Redgrove
  - David Constantine
  - Penelope Shuttle
  - Medbh McGuckian
- - Anne Stevenson
  - Carol Rumens
  - Peter Porter
  - Dennis O'Driscoll
  - Bill Smith
  - Peter Scupham
- - Hugo Williams
  - Michael Hofmann
  - James Berry
  - Dannie Abse
  - Philip Booth