Bibliography 1975 - 1990

Leaving Sapporo: poem in notebook

1975

  • poem: 'This Dark Void', Contac Arts Magazine nos. 9 and 10
  • poem: 'After Rochdale...', Green Lines no. 1

1976

  • poem: 'Generosity of thighs...', Grope no.5
  • poem: 'Worlds Apart', Perfect Bound no. 1
  • poems: from 'The Benefit Forms' [nos. 1, 6, 7], Perfect Bound no. 2
  • poems: 2 'Benefit Forms' [nos. 4, 5], Great Works no. 6
  • poems: 'A Symbiosis', 'A Closed Form of Love', Almer Parkes no. 2
  • poem: 'How He Changes', Blueprint no. 2
  • review: of On the Periphery by Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Perfect Bound no.1
  • review: 'Roy Fisher's Body Sensations' [Roy Fisher, 19 Poems and an Interview], Perfect Bound no. 2

1977

  • poems: 'Not a Thing to Write Home About', 'In Herschel Road', 'Indoor Antennae', 'After the End', Perfect Bound no. 3
  • poems: 'Two to Make an Argument', 'The Lists', Perfect Bound no. 4
  • poems: Four passages from 'The Benefit Forms' [nos. 2, 3, 8, 9], Blueprint no. 3
  • poem: 'A Homage', Autumn Anthology: A Biographical Anthology of One Hundred Poets ed. S. T. Gardiner (London: Poet's Yearbook Publications)
  • poem: 'Some Hope', Palantir no. 6
  • poems: 'Things to See', 'A Thing to Live With', Palantir no. 7
  • poem: 'Minimal Portrait/Frame 2', Krax no. 10
  • poem: 'A Map of Unvisitable Places', Vanessa no. 4
  • poem: 'Ear to the Night, Mouth to the Morning', Spectacular Diseases no. 3
  • poem: 'Interrupted Views', Granta no. 75
  • poem: 'Overdrawn Account', Trinity Review
  • poem: 'Waking, St Paul's Square', New Poetry 3 ed. Alan Brownjohn and Mureen Duffy (London: Arts Council of Great Britian)
  • translations: 'Mao-Tcha', 'The Name of the Wings', 'On Ten Fingers' by Pierre Reverdy, Poetry and Audience vol. 23
  • translations: 'Sombre', 'Century' by Pierre Reverdy, Saturday Morning no. 4
  • translations: 'The Man and the Weather', 'The Walls of Towns', 'O.' by Pierre Reverdy, Granta no.76
  • translations: ''The Valley's Turning', '4 & 9', 'The Name of the Wings' , 'The Noise of Wings', 'The Man and Night', 'The Far Away Voice', 'His Contemporary Life', 'The Blue Corner of the Sky', 'Footpath' by Pierre Reverdy, The Wolly of Swot no.1, September
  • review: of Marxism for Infants by Denise Riley, Perfect Bound no. 4
  • interviewer: 'Roy Fisher Talks to Peter Robinson', Granta no.76

Printed page of Going Out to Vote1978

  • poem: Going Out to Vote (Many Press, London)
  • poetry:The Benefit Forms (Lobby Press, Cambridge)
  • poems: 'If I Hold the Words', 'Take Care of Things', 'Cold Table', 'Ear to the Night, Mouth to the Morning', Blueprint
  • poems: 'Language's Condition', 'Wallpaper', The Little Word Machine nos. 8-9
  • poems: 'Furniture Music, Musical Chairs', 'Self-Portrait by Himself', 'To the Stars', 'Summer Weather Variations', 'Pressure Cooker Noise', 'The Woman is Mobile, The Furniture is Bolted Down', Ochre Magazine no. 5
  • poems: 'The Yellow Room', 'A Woman a Picture and a Poem', 'Autobiography', Vanessa nos. 5 and 6
  • poem: 'Nondescript', Perfect Bound no. 5
  • poem: 'Looking Up', Perfect Bound no. 6
  • poem: 'Finding the Range', Green Lines no. 2
  • poem: Poem from 'The Benerfit Forms' [no.1], Stand vol. 19 no. 3
  • translations: 'Guesthouse', 'Curfew', 'Poem', 'Man's Memory' by Pierre Reverdy, Perfect Bound no. 6
  • translations: 'In the Field', 'Beyond', 'On the Threshold' by Pierre Reverdy, Joe Soap's Canoe no. 1
  • translation: 'The Red Head' by Pierre Reverdy, Green Lines no. 2
  • article: 'A Note on Pierre Reverdy', Joe Soap's Canoe no. 1
  • review: 'Stations of the Cross' [Donald Davie, In the Stopping Train, and The Poet in the Imaginary Museum], The Cambridge Review vol. 100 no. 2244
  • review: 'Thomas A. Clark: Poet as Herbalist', Perfect Bound no. 5
  • review: 'Dada and Surrealism Reviewed', Granta no.77

Cover of A Part fo Rosemary Laxron1979

  • poetry: A Part of Rosemary Laxton (Privately printed, Cambridge)
  • poems: 'Writing on the Quiet', 'The Sky is Difficult', 'Old Notes', 'Touching You', Perfect Bound no. 7
  • poem: 'After the End', Argo vol. 1 no. 2
  • poem: 'Dirty Language', New Poetry 5 ed. Peter Redgrove and Jon Silkin (London: Hutchinson)
  • poem: 'Dirty Language', Lettera no. 17
  • poem: 'Dirty Language', Stand vol. 20 no. 3
  • poem: 'The Uncertainty of the Poet', Alembic no. 8, spring
  • translations: 'The Shadow of the Wall', 'Silence', 'Street', 'Point', 'Behind the Station', 'Space at the End of the Corridor', 'Cinema', 'Drama' by Pierre Reverdy, Alembic no. 8, spring
  • translation: 'See-Saw' by Pierre Reverdy, Argo vol. 1 no. 2
  • review: 'Two or Three Things about Roy Fisher', PN Review 12 vol. 6 no. 4
  • review: 'Peter Robinson Reviews' [on Programme Notes by Adam Clarke-Williams and True Adventures on the A10 by A. T. Tribble] Broadsheet 8-13 Nov
  • review: 'Sad Café', Broadsheet 10-23 Oct [as Jack Hughes]
  • review: 'Making It', Broadsheet 24-30 Oct [as Jack Hughes]
  • review: 'Intimate Studies', Broadsheet 31 Oct -7 Nov [as Jack Hughes]
  • review: 'Still Life', Broadsheet 14-20 Nov [as Jack Hughes]
  • review: 'Woe', Broadsheet 5-11 Dec [as Jack Hughes]
  • review: 'Jenny's Face, Broadsheet 28 Nov-4 Dec [as Jack Hughes]
  • review: 'At a Loss', Broadsheet 21-27 Nov [as Jack Hughes]
  • review: 'Woe', Broadsheet 5-11 Dec [as Jack Hughes]

Cover of Six Poems by UNGARETTI1980

  • translations [with Marcus Perryman]: Six Poems by Ungaretti (Plain Wrapper Press, Verona)
  • poetry: Overdrawn Account (Many Press, London)
  • poems: 'From Memory', 'The Counterpane', 'For My Wife to Be', '23 January 1980', Granta new series, no. 2
  • poems: 'Overdrawn Account', 'On the Ground', Rock Drill no. 1
  • poems: 'What the Matter Could Be', 'Responsibilities and Distances', Trinity Review
  • poem: '23 January 1980', Naked Masks
  • poems: 'There Again', 'Cleaning', Twofold no.2
  • poems: 'Writing on the Quiet', 'The Counterpane', 'Dirty Language', Green River Review vol. 11 nos. 2 and 3
  • translations [with Marcus Perryman]: 'September', 'Passing On', 'Saba' by Vittorio Sereni, Molly Bloom no. 1
  • translations [with Marcus Perryman]: 'Chiaroscuro' by Giuseppe Ungaretti, Stonechat no. 1
  • article: 'On an Unpublished Poem by Adrian Stokes', Adrian Stokes Supplement, PN Review 15, vol. 7 no. 1
  • review: of David Arkell, Looking for Laforgue: an Informal Biography, The Cambridge Review vol. 101 no. 2255
  • review: 'The Witches of Ensor', Broadsheet 16-22 Jan [as Jack Hughes]
  • review: 'Drawing the Customers', Broadsheet 23-29 Jan [as Jack Hughes]
  • review: 'Mental Furniture', Broadsheet 30 Jan-5 Feb [as Jack Hughes]
  • review: 'Small Prospects', Broadsheet 6-12 Feb [as Jack Hughes]
  • review: 'In Difficulties', Broadsheet 13-18 Feb [as Jack Hughes]
  • review: 'Some Figuring Out', Broadsheet 20-26 Feb [as Jack Hughes]
  • review: 'Blessed Clever', Broadsheet 27 Feb-2 Mar [as Jack Hughes]
  • review: 'O.K.', Broadsheet 5-12 Mar [as Jack Hughes]

Cover of Adrian Stokes with all the views1981

  • edition: With All the Views: Collected Poems of Adrian Stokes (Manchester: Carcanet Press)
  • poems: 'These Last Days', 'In Our Own Time', Delta no. 62
  • poems: 'These Last Days', '23 January 1980', Dragon 1980-81
  • poem: 'In Our Own Time', Ink vol. 4 no. 5
  • article: 'The Composition of "A Temporary Poem"', Hertforde Poets Journal no. 20
  • review: 'Liberties in Context' [ Roy Fisher, Poems 1955-1980], Grosseteste Review no. 13

1982

  • poems: 'Against the Loss You Make Provision', 'Building Society', 'Home Improvements', PN Review 30 vol. 9 no. 4
  • poems: 'A Summer Thunderstorm', 'Cleaning', 'English as a Foerign Language', Siting Fires no. 1
  • poems: 'A Summer Thunderstorm', 'Guest House', 'Feeding the Dead is Necessary', Dragon 1982
  • article: 'In Another's Words: Thomas Hardy's Poetry', English vol. 31 no. 141
  • review: 'Fatal Twists' [Collected Poems of Bernard Spencer], Essays in Criticism vol.32 no. 4
  • review: 'Essential Marginalia' [Jeremy Hooker, A View from the Source and Poetry of Place], PN Review 29, vol. 9 no. 3
  • review: of A Dream of Maps by Matthew Sweeney, Aquarius vol. 13 no. 14
  • radio talk: 'The Associations of War: The Dry Salvages', BBC Radio 3

Cover of The Disease of the Elm by Vittoro Sereni1983

  • translations [with Marcus Perryman]:The Disease of the Elm and other poems by Vittorio Sereni (Many Press, London)
  • poems: 'For Different Friends', 'Bay Hotel', 'Feeding the Dead is Necessary', English vol. 32 no. 143
  • poems: 'The Earthly Remains', 'For Different Friends', Trinity Review
  • poem: 'A Short History', Other Poetry nos. 11 and 12
  • poem: 'Editoril Footnote', Aquarius vol. 15 no. 16
  • translations [with Marcus Perryman]: 'To the Gods of Morning', 'One September Evening', 'In a Florence Street', 'Genre Theory', 'Sixth Recitative' by Franco Fortini, The Fiction Magazine vol. 2 no. 2
  • translations [with Marcus Perryman]: 'City of Night', 'Italian in Greece' by Vittorio Sereni, Argo vol. 5 no. 1
  • translation [with Marcus Perryman]: 'Algerian Diary' by Vittorio Sereni, PN Review 32, vol. 9 no. 6 .
  • translation [with Marcus Perryman]: 'Haze' by Vittorio Sereni, Poetry Ireland Translations no. 7, Poetry Ireland Newsletter
  • translations [with Marcus Perryman]: 'Soldiers in Urbino', 'Balcony', 'Belgrade', 'Saba', 'In Sleep', 'Your Memory in Me' by Vittorio Sereni, Siting Fires no. 2
  • translations [with Marcus Perryman]: 'Works in Progress', 'Revival', 'Interior', 'Festival', 'Niccolo', 'The Disease of the Elm', 'In Ascent', 'In Parma with A. B.', 'Autostrada della Cisa', 'Rimbaud' by Vittorio Sereni, New Directions in Poetry and Prose 47, ed. J. Laughlin, P. Glassgold and E. Harper (New York: New Directions)
  • article: 'Franco Fortini in Cambridge', The Fiction Magazine vol. 2 no. 2
  • article: 'In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: The Poems of Tim Dooley', The Many Review no. 1
  • article: 'A Note on Vittorio Sereni', Siting Fires no. 2
  • obituary: 'Vittorio Sereni (27 July 1913-10 February 1983)', PN Review 32, vol. 9 no. 6
  • review: 'Seeing the World' [Donald Davie, These the Companions], English vol. 32 no. 142
  • review: 'Muscular Christianity and Verse' [Donald Davie, Dissentient Voice], PN Review 31, vol .9 no. 3
  • review: 'Extending the Occasions for Poetry', [Edwin Morgan, Poems of Thirty Years], Argo vol. 4 no. 3
  • review: 'Standing by Moving' [Geoffrey Hill, The Mystery of the Charity of Charles P_guy], English vol.32 no.144

1984

  • poems: 'After the Explosion, 1654', 'News Abroad', 'Granny, After Chardin', PN Review 38 vol. 10 no. 6
  • poems: 'Towards Darkness', 'Hackney Marshes', 'In the Small Hours', PN Review 43 vol. 11 no. 5
  • poems: 'Landscaping Near Heslington', '472 Claremont Road', Trinity Review
  • translation [with Marcus Perryman]: 'Glenn' by Maurizio Cucchi, Grosseteste Review vol. 15
  • translation [with Marcus Perryman]: '"Poet, drive out of me the memory": A review of Sereni's Stella Variabile (1981)' by Mauruzio Cucchi, The Many Review no. 2
  • review: 'Difficult Situations' [Geoffrey Hill, The Lords of Limit], English vol.33 no. 146
  • review: 'Time and Again' [Donald Davie, Collected Poems 1971-1983], Argo vol.5 no.5
  • review: 'A Book of John Welch' [Out Walking], Grosseteste Review vol. 15

Cover of Anaglypta by Peter Robinson1985

  • poetry: Anaglypta (Many Press, London)
  • editor: Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Work (Open University Press, Milton Keynes)
  • poems: 'Landscaping Near Heslington', '472 Claremont Road', 'Change of Place', English vol. 34 no. 150
  • poems: 'The Earthly Remains', 'In my Father's House', Poetry Now no. 4
  • poems: 'Temporary Poems', 'At Salo', Trinity Review
  • translation [with Marcus Perryman]: 'Expulsion Order' by Franco Fortini, Argo vol. 6 no. 2
  • translation [with Marcus Perryman]: 'In Parma with A. B.', PN Review 46 (Cambridge Poetry Festival Special Issue) vol. 12 no. 2
  • Cover of Pound's Artistsarticle: 'Ezra Pound and Italian Art', Pound's Artists, ed. R. Humphries (Tate Gallery, London)
  • article: 'Ezra Pound's Broad Analogies', PN Review 46 vol. 12 no. 2
  • article: 'Jeremy Hooker', Poets of Great Britian and Ireland since 1960 ed. V. B. Sherry, Jr. (Gale Research, Detroit, Michigan)
  • article: 'Is Poetry a Performing Art?' The Cambridge Review vol. 106 no. 2287

1986

  • poems: 'Towards Twyford, 23 March 1985', 'Depending on the Weather', Trinity Review
  • poem: 'South Parade', The Fiction Magazine vol. 5 no. 9
  • poem: 'Depending on the Weather', Acumen no. 4
  • translation [with Marcus Perryman]: 'Twenty-six' by Vittorio Sereni, Numbers no. 1
  • review: 'Received Accents' [Charles Tomlinson, Collected Poems and 4 other books], London Review of Books vol. 8 no. 3
  • review: 'Family Affairs' [William Empson, Using Biography], English vol. 34 no. 150

1987

  • poems: 'Their Late Effects', 'A Difficult Passage', English vol. 36 no. 155
  • poem: 'Nearly in the Clouds', PN Review 55 vol. 13 no. 5
  • poems: 'For Lavinia', 'Overlooking Verona', 'Faith in the City', PN Review 58 vol. 14 no. 2
  • poems: 'Plain Money', 'By the Lines', PN Review 59 vol. 14 no. 3
  • poem: 'After a Quiet Life', The North
  • poem: 'At Salo', Infolio no. 60, 13 Feb 1987
  • poem: 'There Again', Poetry Wales vol. 22 no. 2
  • translations [with Marcus Perryman]: 'Soldiers in Urbino', 'He knows nothing any more, is borne up on wings', 'Appointment at an Unusual Hour', 'Autostrada della Cisa' by Vittorio Sereni, London Magazine vol. 27 nos. 1 and 2
  • translations [with Marcus Perryman]: 'How the world has narrowed...', 'Of your timid cat...', 'Note on Poussin', 'The Promise', 'Reading a Poem', 'Genre Theory', 'The Goodnight', 'The Near Abolition of Nature', 'The Animal' by Franco Fortini; 'Niccolo' by Vittorio Sereni, Numbers no. 3
  • editorial: Numbers no. 2
  • article: 'Josef Brodsky: Nobel's Poet', The Sunday Telegraph 25 Oct
  • review: 'A Thread of Faith' [Vittorio Sereni, Tutte le poesie], London Magazine vol. 27 no. 1-2

1988

  • poetry: This Other Life (Manchester: Carcanet Press) awarded the Cheltenham Prize
  • poems: 'Unfaithful Translations', 'Towards Levanto', Poetry Durham no. 19
  • poems: 'A Change of Heart', 'On Van Gogh's "La Crau"', PN Review 65 vol. 15 no. 3
  • poems: 'Not Yet Out of the Wood', 'Nearer to the Absent', 'After Dinner Speech', 'After the Last Train Leaving the Capital', 'At Swarkestone Pavilion', 'In Summer Wind', Folded Sheets no. 5
  • poem: 'Consorts of Phantasms', Verse vol. 5 no. 3
  • poem: 'Towards Twyford, 23 March 1985', Critical Quarterly vol. 30 no. 3
  • poem: 'A Disturbed Night' The Threepenny Review vol. 9 no. 1
  • translations [with Christine Tweddle]: 'At the Chevrolet's wheel on the road to Sintra', 'A cross on the tobacconist's door', 'Tripe in the Oporto Style', 'Dactylography', 'They didn't have any electricity there' by Alvaro de Campos, Numbers no. 4
  • translation [with Marcus Perryman]: 'Saba' by Franco Fortini, Bulletin of the Society for Italian Studies no. 21
  • translation [with Emmanuela Tandello]: 'Sea of need, Cassandra...' by Amelia Rosselli, Bulletin of the Society for Italian Studies no. 21
  • editorial: Numbers no. 4
  • article [with Emmanuela Tandello]: 'Two Italian Poets in London', Bulletin of the Society for Italian Studies no. 21

Cover of More about the weather by Peter Robinson1989

  • poetry: More About the Weather (Cambridge: Robert Jones)
  • poems: 'More About the Weather', 'These Few Words', Pequod nos. 26-7
  • poems: 'Easter Break', 'Rumours of Summer', English vol. 38 no. 161
  • poems: 'The Dredger', 'Interrupted Sleep', Working Titles no. 1
  • poems: 'This World Elsewhere', 'Foreign Affairs', The Cambridge Review vol. 110 no. 2305
  • poem: 'Trying the Patience', Critical Quarterly vol. 31 no. 2
  • article: 'Charles Tomlinson in the Golfo dei Poeti', Review of English Literature [Kyoto] no.58
  • article: 'The Triumphant Homecoming of Japan's Rising Son', The Sunday Correspondent 10 Dec
  • review: 'Gaps' [on Maura Dooley, Michael Donaghy, Adam Thorpe, Jo Shapcott], Poetry Durham no. 22.

1990

  • translations [with Marcus Perryman]: Selected Poems of Vittorio Sereni (London: Anvil Press)
  • poem: 'At Fountains', Poetry Durham no. 24
  • poem: 'Forgotten Holiday', Poetry Durham no. 25
  • poem: 'At Como', Ariel vol. 21 no. 4
  • poem: 'Leaf-Viewing', The Poetry Book Society Anthology no. 1, new series, ed. Frazer Steel (London: Hutchinson)
  • article: 'Philip Larkin: Here and There', Review of English Literature [Kyoto] no. 59
  • article: 'Dependence in the Poetry of W. S. Graham', Review of English Literature no. 60
  • article: 'Westward Ho: Kyoto Diary', The Independent Wed 7 Feb
  • review: 'Attuning the Facts' [Helen Vendler, The Music of What Happens and Michael Edwards, Poetry and Possibility], Studies in English Literature [Tokyo], English Issue
  • review: 'Real Criticism' [Eric Griffiths, The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry], PN Review 73, vol. 16 no. 5
  • review: 'Private Faces, Public Places' [on Antaeus: Journals, Notebooks & Diaries], PN Review 74, vol. 16 no. 6