Acumen 87

Written/Edited by: Patricia Oxley

Published by: Acumen Publications

Year: 2017

No of pages:

ISBN:

£6.50

Editorial    4
Poems: Patrick Osada, Marc Woodward, Brenda Hutchings, Harry Guest, Duncan Forbes, Tom Murray, Clifford Forde, Doreen Hinchliffe, Keith MacFarlane, Jethro Dykes.  5
Interview – with Keki Deruwalla. 14

Poems: Shanta Acharya, Keki Deruwalla, Mark Haworth-Booth, Sue Spiers, Barry Smith, Luigi Cappola, Lucy Calder, David Olsen. 21

Poetry, Science & the Division of Labour – Robert Griffiths. 30

Poems: Kathleen McPhilemy, David Hay, Roger P. Dennis, Tim Love, Donna Pucciani, Julie Whitby, James McKee, Sue Beasley, Andrea Witzke Slot, Miranda Day. 37

Garden of Live Flowers – Joan Michelson. 47

Poems: David Ball, E.E. Jones, Wilf Deckner, Jim C. Wilson, Annie Fisher, Kathleen McPhilemy, Alastair Llewellyn-Smith, Denise Bennett, Christopher North, Duncan Forbes. 51

Responses 62

Poetry in Translation– Hendrik Marsman (K. Kummer), Paul Verlaine (R. Barnicot), A. Tsiakos (A. Sokkis), Zhu Jian, Zuo You (Yi Zhe), Catullus (A. Taylor). 64

On and Off Parnassus – William Oxley 73

Poems: Simon Williams, Jennifer Johnson, Louisa Campbell, Norbert Hirschhorn, Tony Curtis, Jeremy Robson, Sean Elliott, John Gladwell, Jeremy Wikeley, C.M. Buckland. 78

Reviews: Leah Fritz, Malcolm Bradley, Edmund Prestwich, Glyn Pursglove, Fred Beake, Lucy Jeffery, GlynPursglove. 87

Poetry Comment. 114