The poet and the wreck: Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Plummet-measured: Yeats and form -- A mouthful of earth: Edward Thomas -- Mr and Mrs Stevens -- T.S. Eliot: the prime ram of our flock -- Not ready for repentance: Hart Crane -- Elizabeth Bishop's Aviary -- Nicholas Moore, Wallace Stevens and the fortune press -- James Schuyler and Fairfield Porter -- Long live Donald Justice! -- Allen Ginsberg's ego confessions -- John Ashbery's Where shall I wander -- Veteran of negatives: Ted Hughes -- Nancy Nancy Everywhere: Joe Brainard -- Trust yourself: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Bob Dylan -- Horse sense: Paul Muldoon -- Coda: an interview by Anthony Caleshu
