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• Ian Duhig's 'The Speed of Dark' reviewed by Katy Evans-Bush.
• Jacob Polley's 'Little Gods' reviewed by Ben Wilkinson.
• Dorothy Molloy's 'Hare Soup' reviewed by Katy Evans-Bush.
• British Council's First Lines poetry tour, Croatia 2004: a report by Antony Dunn.
• My Report Card: Michael Donaghy's 10-point anti-manifesto.
• An interview with Henry Shukman: on modernism and the poetry market.
• McDonald vs. Padel: does poetry need PR?