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Agenda is one of the best known and most highly respected poetry journals in the world, having been founded in 1959 by Ezra Pound and William Cookson.
It is now edited by Patricia McCarthy, who co-edited the magazine with William Cookson for four years until his death in January 2003. She is continuing, as Seamus Heaney says, ‘to uphold the lofty standards of Agenda’.
"Agenda is one of the two literary periodicals in Britain. I admire it for its attentiveness to all kinds of contemporary poetry… and its consistent stress on the importance of poetry in translation from other languages." Thom Gunn
"Agenda, as the title insists, does several things that need to be done if literary culture is to stay in good shape. First of all, it stimulates and sponsors new poetry by poets whose writings and espousals have given the magazine its personality from the beginning. Agenda has a second important function which it discharges by doing work of critical advocacy for poets of marked or under-rated achievement, living and dead." Seamus Heaney
Timeless Quotes by William Cookson >
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Agenda Volume. 43 Nos. 2-3
Link to review of the Lauds issue of Agenda in Arts & Books pages of the Independent Friday, 25th April, 2008
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/agenda-the-long-and-the-short-of-exellence-in-poetry-815709.html
Special supplementary features for W.H. Auden:
Two poems:
Michael Alexander: To W.H. Auden in Heaven, with Apologies
Andrew Saltarelli: The Hall of American Pilgrims
Nanos Valaoritis: A Memoir and biography of Marie Wilson
Paintings below by Marie Wilson, wife of Nanos Valaoritis.
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