Briefly noted

Justin Wheatley ()

Samuel Beckett, Poems 1930-1989, John Calder

Daniel Bosch, Crucible, Handsel Books

Donald Davie, Collected Poems, Carcanet

Lee Gerlach, Highwater, Handsel Books

Jorie Graham, Never, Ecco

Dermot Healy, The Reed Bed, Gallery

James Henry, Selected Poems of James Henry, ed. Christopher Ricks, Handsel

Geoffrey Hill, The Orchards Of Syon, Counterpoint

John Hollander, Sonnets: From Dante to the Present, Everyman

Elizabeth Jennings, A New Collected Poems, Carcanet

Philip Larkin, Trouble at Willow Gables, and Other Fictions, ed. James Booth, Faber and Faber

Michael Longley, Twentieth-Century Irish Poems, Faber and Faber

Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill (ed.), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, vols. IV,V, Cork Universitypress

Ruth Padel, Voodoo Shop, Chatto & Windus

Tom Paulin, The Invasion Handbook, Faber and Faber

Stephen Romer, Twentieth-Century French Poems, Faber & Faber