The seventh, indispensable issue of The Bow-Wow Shop (www.bowwowshop.org.uk) includes:

The Isolation Sickness of Poets – a Remedy: see EDITORIALS

Read Lady Felicia Strope, our new structural columnist, the world’s only fully-police-checked

POETRY AGONY AUNT

Copy-Cat Culling of Canadian Poets in British Columbia – see News & Notes

That quizzical master JOHN ASHBERY poses twenty multiple-choice questions

Anatomising Slothus Poeticus – see News & Notes

Why poetry manuscripts are being burned alive – see News & Notes

Tom Lowenstein tells us what Samuel Taylor Coleridge did next in Culbone Wood

An Online Virgil Workshop led by Robert Saxton

Pedagogy on the Rampage: How a Poem Differs from a Painting

DAME POLLY SYLLABIX, Poet Laureatesse of England, writes a wide open letter to her thousands upon thousands of undying acolytes

Plagues of these Times (13): Poetry and Excessive Drunkenness – see EDITORIALS

Should Older Poets Be Gently Eased into Retirement?

A forensic Bow- Wow Shop investigation - see News & Notes

St John the Divine’s cussed Letter from Patmos

The Editor’s Rejection Letter: a useful Prototype – see News & Notes

EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH on shamanism, body-building and the art of cruelty

What is to be done about Chronic Poetry Fatigue Syndrome? asks our Editorial

How the Eistedfodd dealt with global warming – see News & Notes

Poetry and Excessive Drunkenness: a Bow-Wow Shop investigation – see News & Notes

STEPHEN ROMER makes the acquaintance of the widow of JEAN FOLLAIN in Paris

D.M THOMAS interviews SIGMUND FREUD about art, literature, women and Jewishness

RICHARD DEACON witnesses Death Beside the River

New poems by: iDrew, Christopher Middleton, Norm Sibum, Maggie Butt, Alan Wall, John Welch, Amanda Jernigan, Geoffrey Heptonstall, James Sutherland-Smith, C.J. Allen, John Greening, Rory

Waterman and Peter Branson