Cambridge Literary Review

This issue proved controversial, engaging the editors in correspondence with the Times Literary Supplement over comments by reviewer J.C.[3] Similarly, a number of writers associated with Cambridge took up the claims of Robert Archambeau's essay; these responses were discussed on his blog,[4] and a selection were published in CLR2.

[5] This issue featured new work from poets Anne Blonstein, Jonty Tiplady, Rich Owens, as well as translations from Osip Mandelstam, Henri Deluy, Charles Baudelaire, and Hermann Hesse.

It contains a selection of American writers from the Greenwich Cross-Genre Festival (July 2010), edited and with a commentary by Emily Critchley, featuring: Catherine Wagner, Andrea Brady, Susana Gardner, Lee Ann Brown, Eleni Sikelianos, and Corina Copp (writing on the work of Jean Day).

It contains poetry by Rae Armantrout, Tom Graham, Brenda Iijima, Rob Halpern, Joe Luna, Samantha Walton, fiction by Spencer Thomas Campbell, and Lydia Davis, essays by John Wilkinson, Orla Polten, Peter Riley, and Amy De'Ath, as well as a live performance extract by Lisa Jeschke and Lucy Beynon, and a work by Raymond Geuss.

It contains poetry by David Wheatley, Drew Milne, Jesse Drury, and Vahni Capildeo, drama by Ish Klein, fiction by Jennifer Thorp and Ian Holding, and essays by James R. Martin, Mikhal Dekel, Rosie Šnajdr, Robert Kiely and Raymond Geuss.

It contains essays by Clementine Beauvais, Nicholas B. Clark, Margaret R. Higonnet, Carrie Hintz, Robert Kiely, Lisa Jarnot, Toby Mitchell, Eve Tandoi, Greg Thomas, and Ross Wolfe.

It also re-prints Walter Benjamin's essay 'Berlin Toy Tour II', translated by Jonathan Lutes, and El Lissitzky's 'A Supremacist Tale About Two Squares', colourful socialist propaganda for children.

It features poetry by Susan Howe, Eileen Myles, Nathaniel Mackey, Vahni Capildeo, Alex Houen, Cole Swensen, Peter Gizzi, Stephen Rodefer, Luke Roberts, Rowan Evans, Ken Cockburn & Alec Finlay, Jesse Drury, and Drew Milne.

The Cover of Cambridge Literary Review, Issue 1. Designed by Will Brady