Numbers (magazine)

Numbers

Editor	John Alexander, Alison Rimmer, Peter Robinson, Clive Wilmer
Categories	Literary magazine
Frequency	Biannual
Publisher	Numbers Publishing
Year founded	1986
Final issue	1990
Country	England
Based in	Cambridge
ISSN	0950-2858
OCLC number	16265848

Numbers was a literary magazine published twice a year in Cambridge, England, between 1986 and 1990.^[1] Six issues of the magazine appeared, of which the last was a double issue to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of the American poet and novelist Janet Lewis.^[2] Issue 4 was a celebration of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.

Numbers magazine, cover of issue 1.

Each issue contained an editorial, poems, translations and prose by poets.

Numbers was founded and edited by John Alexander, Alison Rimmer, Peter Robinson^[3] and Clive Wilmer.

The magazine emerged from the editors' involvement with the 1977 to 1985 Cambridge Poetry Festivals, and with the exhibition Pound's Artists at Kettle's Yard and the Tate Gallery.^[4]

Contributors

Notable contributors to the magazine included:

John Ash John Ashbery Yves Bonnefoy Edgar Bowers Alison Brackenbury Donald Davie Douglas Dunn Lauris Edmond U. A. Fanthorpe Elaine Feinstein Roy Fisher Franco Fortini Adèle Geras György Gömöri Thom Gunn Rachel Hadas Seamus Heaney Attila József August Kleinzahler Janet Lewis Grevel Lindop Michael Longley Bill Manhire

E. A. Markham Medbh McGuckian Jamie McKendrick Matthew Mead Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Christopher Middleton Nicholas Moore Ruth Padel György Petri Peter Riley Stephen Romer E. J. Scovell Vittorio Sereni Vikram Seth Ken Smith Elizabeth Smither Timothy Steele Grete Tartler Charles Tomlinson John Tranter Gael Turnbull Michael Vince Marguerite Yourcenar

References

1. Tim Love (10 February 2012). "England's literary magazines, 1985-2012". Retrieved 11 January 2013.
2. Numbers, volumes I to IV, Cambridge, 1986 to 1989, ISSN 0950-2858.
3. Piette, Adam; Price, Katy, eds. (2007). The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson. Salt Publishing. ISBN 1844712443.
4. Alison Blair-Underwood (2012). "Open account - A memoir: the Cambridge Poetry Festival". Blackbox Manifold, Issue 9: Peter Robinson at Sixty. Blackbox Manifold. Retrieved 7 January 2013.