CONTENTS:

1. Poetry today
2. Robert Graves and David Jones
3. John Betjeman and William Plomer
4. W. H. Auden, Louis MacNiece, C. Day Lewis, Stephen Spender
5. George Barker, David Gascoyne, W. S. Graham, Lawrence Durrell, Norman Nicholson
6. Stevie Smith, Geoffrey Grigson, Roy Fuller, R. S. Thomas, Gavin Ewart, Charles Causley
7. "The Movement" and after: Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, Elizabeth Jennings, D. J. Enright, John Wain, Donald Davie, Thom Gunn
8. Vernon Scannell, Dannie Abse, Patricia Beer, Laurence Lerner, John Fuller, Clive James
9. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
10. "The Group" and after: Peter Porter, George MacBeth, Peter Redgrove, Alan Browjohn, Edwin Brock, Fleur Adcock, Jenny Joseph
11. Freda Downie, U. A. Fanthorpe, Elma Mitchell, Vicki Feaver, Carol Rumens, E. J. Scovell
12. Geoffrey Hill, John Silkin, Charles Tomlinson, Basil Bunting, Roy Fisher
13. "Concrete", "Sound", "Found": Edwin Morgan, Bob Cobbing
14. "The Review" and after: Ian Hamilton, A. Alvarez, Hugo Williams, David Harsent
15. "Pop" and after: Christopher Logue, Adrian Mitchell, Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten, Pete Morgan
16. Scotland, Wales, Ireland
17. Tony Harrison and Douglas Dunn
18. New poets since 1970: James Fenton, Craig raine, Christopher Reid, Kit Wright, Peter Reading, John Whitworth, Peter Scupham, John Mole, George Szirtes, Andrew Morton, Michael Hulse
19. "The Poetry Business"