A 232-page issue fea­tur­ing the poetry of Andrea Brady, Chris Goode, Peter Manson, and Keston Suther­land. Also: crit­i­cal work on these poets by Jeremy Noel-​Tod, Simon Jarvis, John Wilkin­son, and Matt Ffytche; and an inter­view with Chris Goode by Sam Ladkin. The issue also includes fif­teen reviews of new British poetry (includ­ing my review of Peter Larkin’s Leaves of Field [PDF]), a note by Keith Tuma on younger British poets, let­ters by Cather­ine Wagner and Peter Riley, and a poster by Andrew Duncan (”Styles of British Poetry 1945-2000″).

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Photos from CR’s 60th anniver­sary party, which hap­pened Novem­ber 17 at Around the Coyote, are now avail­able. Lisa Robert­son, Tom Raworth, John Wilkin­son, and Devin John­ston read at the event, and the John Lennox Band sup­plied music.

Poetry by Lisa Robert­son, John Wilkin­son, and Devin John­ston. Music by The John Lennox band. Beer by Peroni.

When: Friday, Novem­ber 17, 7p-11p.

Where: Around the Coyote Gallery, 1935 1/2 W. North Avenue, Chicago.

Free admission.

This 192-page issue of CR features:

POEMS
C.D. Wright’s long poem “Rising, Hov­er­ing, Falling,” Devin John­ston, Alan Bern­heimer, Joel Felix, Arkadii Drago­moschchenko, Peter Larkin, Peter O’Leary, Geral­dine Monk, Ray DiPalma, Mer­rill Gil­fil­lan, Gavin Selerie, Medbh McGuckian

FIC­TION
Jerzy Ficowski, “Filzbad” by Diana George [PDF], Brian Lennon

INTER­VIEW
with Ste­fanie Marlis (by Eric P. Elshtain)

ESSAYS
John Wilkin­son on Mar­jorie Welish
Robert Archam­beau on James McMichael

REVIEWS AND NOTES
Robert P. Baird on Harry Thomas’s Mon­tale in Eng­lish
Daniel Borzutzky on Daniil Kharms’s Blue Note­book
Brian Whitener on Svetislav Basara’s Chi­nese Letter
Matthias Regan on Jena Osman’s An Essay in Aster­isks
Eric P. Elsh­tain on Carol Moldaw’s Light­ning Field
Melissa Girard on Srikanth Reddy’s Facts for Vis­i­tors
Michael Rob­bins on Daniel Kane’s All Poets Wel­come
Paul Hoover on the Chicago lit­er­ary scene

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