In each issue of The North...

• A lively range of contemporary poetry by new and established writers.

   

• A broad spectrum of book reviews, from mainstream publishers to the smaller presses - sympathetic, rigorous.

   

• Critical articles, conversations with writers, autobiography.

   

• 'Blind Criticism': two or three writers put their heads on the block and comment on a poem without knowing who wrote it.

   

• 'Poets I Go Back To': writers reveal which poets from the past have most influenced them.

   

• 'The Collection': writers talk about books that are important to them.

   

• Plus occasional 'Brief Guides To ...' well known poets (for example, John Killick on Douglas Dunn, Anna Adams on Elizabeth Bishop).