The Iron Book of New Humorous VerseIron Press is publishing the first anthology exclusively dedicated to contemporary humorous verse, taking into account new fashions in performance poetry. More than 100 poems are included and among the contributors are Ian McMillan, Kate Fox, Jacob Polley, Linda France, Andy Croft, David Bateman, John Whitworth, and Paul Groves. All the selections, picked from more than 1500 poems from throughout the world, were originally published post 1990.

• Yannis Ritsos

Angry and compassionate

This autumn MPT will be truly internationalist

became a teacher there

Escaping to Asia

environmental catastrophe and social disintegration

Wales’s national writers’ centre

works by 7 other poets and works by 5 f iction-writers

complex and probing

James Urquhart reviews fiction for the Daily Telegraph

Josephine wishes it would all go away

Golala Nouri Three Poems