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BACK ISSUES FOUND (August 2005)
Very limited numbers of issues 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8, previously listed as sold out have recently come to light. Because of their rarity these copies cost more than regular back issues. If you are interested in purchasing any of these issues, please contact the Editor, who will be happy to negotiate a price with you.



One (Autumn ’82): Allen Tate, James Dickey, Seamus Heaney, Seamus Deane, Stephen Spender, Sam Boone.sold out

Two (Spring ’83): letters from Flannery O’Connor to Sally Fitzgerald; poems by Roy Fuller, Sam Boone. sold out

Three (Spring ’84): Stephen Spender’s 75th birthday special—Susan Sontag, Joseph Brodsky, Tom Stoppard, W. H. Auden’s “Love Letter.”sold out

Four (Spring ’85): James Merrill, Allen Tate, Padriac Fiacc, Brian Patten, Roger McGough, Carol Anne Duffy.

Five (Spring ’87): “Two Generations of Romanian Poetry,” facsimile letters from Ezra Pound to Thomas Carter. sold out

Six (Spring ’88): poems by Connie Bensley, Martyn Crucefix, Bernard O’Donoghue, Anthony Thwaite, and others; engraving by Paul Hawdon.

Seven (Autumn ’88): poems and prose by Carol Rumens, Glyn Maxwell, Carole Satyamurti, Carlos Drummond, and a second Romanian feature.

Eight (Summer ‘89): Special South African issue, featuring Don Mattera, Dennis Brutus, Andries Oliphant, and many others; cover design by Hilda Bernstein.sold out

Nine (Summer ’90): East and Southern African special issue, including poems and prose by Ingrid de Kok, Jack Mapanje, M. J. Vassanji, Remmy Ongala, and others.

Ten (Summer ’91): poems by Stephen Devereux, Tony Roberts, Duncan Chambers, Marco Lodoli, and more.

Eleven (Summer ’92): Tenth birthday special featuring Zulfikar Ghose, Dannie Abse, Connie Bensley, Carole Satyamurti, James Kirkup, Jon Stallworthy, Kevin Crossley-Holland, and more. Cover and artwork by Mai Thomas.

Twelve (Summer ’93): David Gascoyne translation Eluard’s poem, “Balthus;” translation from Miklos Radnoti; poems from Great Britain, the United States, South Africa, Botswana, Europe, and New Zealand.

Thirteen (Summer '97): Stephen Spender memorial issue--memoirs by Robert Dana, Francis King, poems by Barbara Hardy, Peter Porter, Michael Hamburger, portraits by Hockney and Dominique Nabokov.

Fourteen (Summer '98): new writing from South and southern Africa--work by Dennis Brutus, Jeremy Cronin, Jack Mapanje, Taban lo Liyong, Ivan Vladislavic, and Marlene van Niekerk; interview with Athol Fugard; pictures by Cecil Skotnes and Peter Clarke.

Fifteen (Summer '99): poems by Paul Allen, Barbara Hardy, Martin Espada; pictures by Mustafah Dhada, Guy Beining, and Mark Wilby.

Sixteen (Summer '00): "Vietnamese Voices, American Views"--poems by Lam Thi My Da, Nguyen Quang Thieu, Linh Dinh, Song Tam, and others, photographs by Craig Barber, interviews with Craig Barber and Tim O'Brien.

Seventeen (Summer '01): New work from Cuba and Latin America-- poems by Virgil Suarez, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Klaus de Albuquerque, and others, photographs by Craig Barber and Kimberly Narenkivicius.

Eighteen (Summer '02): Work by Caryl Phillips, Neil Curry, Ryan G. Van Cleave. Photographs by Nancy Santos and artwork by Larry Lebby. Translations from Bulgarian (Nikolai Kantchev), Spanish (Clara Janes, Marta Kornblith, and others), and Romanian (Victor Gelbtrunk).

Nineteen (Summer '03): Work by Kwame Dawes, Geri Doran, Alan Britt. Photographs by Simon Norfolk. Translations from Spanish (Miguel Hernandez and Eduardo Zepeda-Henríquez) and Afrikaans (Wilma Stockenström).

Twenty (Summer '04): 80th birthday tribute to Dennis Brutus, featuring tributes and poems from Nadine Gordimer, Desmond Tutu, Martin Espada, Keith Gottschalk, Tanure Ojaide, Grant Farred, Bernth Lindfors, Allan Kolski Horwitz, Gabeba Baderoon, and many more. Photographs by David Goldblatt; cover portrait by Peta Kaplan. sold out

Twenty-One (Summer '05): 21st bumper issue with writers from Canada, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Malawi, Namibia, the netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Trinidad, and the United States; images unlimited by time or space; photography by Michelle Van Parys

Twenty-Two (Summer '06): Featuring poems by R udolph Muller, Ernst Mirville, Denize Lauture, Felix Morisseau-Leroy, Frank Etienne, Paul Laraque, and Michel-Ange Hyppolite, "Vanishing Sky," a new story by Madison Smartt Bell, and artwork by Maxo Lauture.

Twenty-Three (Summer '07): Featuring work by Brenda Marie Osbey, Neil Curry, Damian Garside, Allan Kolski Horwitz, Laura Bernstein-Machlay, and Doug Ramspeck, with dignified portraits of New Orleanians by Harold Baquet.






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