POETRY MATTERS No.1:

Poems by Elizabeth Bartlett, Connie Bensley, U.A.Fanthorpe, Philip Gross, Sylvia Kantaris, John Latham, John Levett, Elma Mitchell, William Scammell, I.P.Taylor, Landeg White, and others. A sketch for radio by Connie Bensley; Bingo, a play for television by Richard Francis; Whistler versus Ruskin; R.V. Bailey on the poetry of Kipling.
 

POETRY MATTERS No.2:

Poems by Alex Barr, Paul Coltman, U.A. Fanthorpe, John Latham and others; U.A. Fanthorpe on the Monet project; Kurt Vonnegut / John Latham letters; Harry Chambers on the journalism of Michael Frayn; Peter Forbes on The Two Cultures.
 

POETRY MATTERS No.3:

Poems by Paul Coltman, Richard Godden, U.A. Fanthorpe, David Sutton and others. Short stories by R.H. Bowden and Julian May; Stuart Henson on Larkin; Bill Turner on editing his magazine The Poet.
 

POETRY MATTERS No.4:

Prizewinning poems about paintings by Carol Ann Duffy, John Levett, Gerda Mayer, Meg Peacocke, Keith Bosley, Ronald Gaskell, David Gill, Roz Cowman and Brian Hughes, together with reproductions of the paintings concerned, a short story by Stewart Henson; Harry Chambers on Phillip Larkin 1922 – 1985; 3 poems by U.A. Fanthorpe.
 

POETRY MATTERS No.5:

Prizewinning poems from Peterloo Open Poetry Competition 1987 by Maureen Wilkinson, John Lyons, John Latham, John Levett, Ron Taylor, Judy Hindley, Shirley Bell and Roy Kelly; Slow Learner (autobiography by U.A. Fanthorpe); Wordsworth Symposium with poems by U.A. Fanthorpe and William Scammell and an article by Anna Adams on “The Idiot Boy”; Peter Forbes on editing Poetry Review.
 

POETRY MATTERS No.6:

Prizewinning poems from Peterloo Open Poetry Competition 1988 by Donald Atkinson, Romesh Gunesekera, Jackie Kay, John Levett, Brian Waltham, Ann Thacker, M.R.Peacocke, John Latham, Heather C. Massie and David Gill; Neil Astley on surviving Austraila’s 1974 Cyclone Tracy; John Whitworth’s verse review of Vikram Seth’s The Golden Gate; the script of Raymound Tallis’s BBC Radio 4 talk Words
 

POETRY MATTERS No.7:

Prizewinning poems from Peterloo Open Poetry Competition 1989 by Rodney Pybus, Debjani Chatterjee, Clive Watkins, Brian Waltham, Irene Rawnsley, John Levett, Margaret Toms, John Gurney, Anna Adams, David Phillips, Don Rodgers, Sally-Ann Baker; poems for children by Robert Hull, John Mole, John Latham, Margaret Toms; Harry Chambers on the poetry of Fred Pratt Green.
 

POETRY MATTERS No.8:

Prizewinning poems from Peterloo Open Poetry Competition 1990 by Maureen Wilkinson, Mimi Khalvati, David Simon, Christopher Ringrose, Pauline Stainer, Gerry Wells, Francis Harvey, John Levett, Helen Kidd, William Scammell, Neil Curry, Colin Archer, Elaine Gaston, David Dabydeen, Mike Harding; Feature on New American Poetry with poems by Dana Gioia and Robert McDowell, articles by Dana Gioia and Harrry Chambers and a review by John Mole of Dana Gioia’s first volume Daily Horoscope.
 

POETRY MATTERS No.9:

Prizewinning poems from Peterloo Open Poetry Competition 1991 by Chris Woods, Cecilia Chance, Diana Hendry, Jim Norton, Sue Stewart, John Lyons, John Latham, John Levett, Heather C. Massie, Jan Sellars, Tina Kendall; short story by Neal Mason; Rimband Centenary Feature with Rimband translations by David Paul; text of BBC Radio 3 interview with Dana Gioia; Anna Adams on Vienna.
 

POETRY MATTERS No.10:

Prizewinning poems from Peterloo Open Poetry Competition 1992 by David Craig, Stuart Henson, Tamar Yoseloff, Peter Dunn, Philippa Collingwood, Shafi Ahmed; poems by Mike Harding, John Levett, John Mole and others; Tennyson Centenary Feature with a review by Philip Larkin, a dialect poem by Tennyson and a cartoon by Sir Max Beerbohm; Walt Whitman Centenary Feature with poems by John Whitworth and John Glenday; Harry Chambers on Larkin’s Letters; Film Feature on Ian Mcdonald’s The Humming-bird Tree.