Introduction

poet on the periphery

1-23

The reluctant radical

identi-kit and uncollected early poems

25-53

Cambridge, verbal hiccups and iambics

twelve academic questions and language-games

55-93

Poetic artifice and the defence of form

95-128

Simplicity and complexity in the quest for style

129-158

Control and excess in the quest for "writing straight"

159-199

Coda

the risks of "freedom, truth and skill"

Martin Middeke, Christoph Reinfandt

201-208