Cover illustration © Julian Bell
ARCHIPELAGO is a literary magazine in the ordinary sense, in that it contains writings in non-fictional prose, and verse. It also places great emphasis on monochrome illustration. Extraordinary are its preoccupations with landscape, with documentary and remembrance, with wilderness and wet, with natural and cultural histories, with language and languages, with the littoral and vestigial, the geological, and topographical, with climates, in terms of both meteorology, ecology and environment; and all these things as metaphor, liminal and subliminal, at the margins, in the unnameable constellation of islands on the Eastern Atlantic coast, known variously in other millennia as Britain, Great Britain, Britain and Ireland etc; even, too, too readily, the United Kingdom, though no such thing ever quite existed, other than in extremisduring wartime, but in the letter. But while the unnameable archipelago is its subject, its vision is by implication global. It follows certain cultural trajectories to other shores. Its concerns with the state of the planet could not be more of the hour.
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ARCHIPELAGO ISSUES
Archipelago: Issue 8 Autumn/Winter 2013
To include contributions from: Norman Ackroyd, Mark Cocker, Alan Counihan, Tim Dee, Rody Gorman, Kirsty Gunn, Caspar Henderson, Geoffrey Hill, Robert Macfarlane, Sinéad Morrissey, Sandy Moffat, Alan Riach.
Archipelago: Issue 7 Winter 2012
Contributors: Moya Cannon, Nichola Deane, Tim Dee, John Elder, Rody Gorman, Seamus Heaney, Roger Hutchinson, Angela Leighton, James Macdonald Lockhart, Michael Longley, Johnnie Marsh, Angus Martin, Gail McNeillie, W. S. Milne, Alexander Moffat, Les Murray, John Piper, Robin Robertson, Tim Robinson, Katherine Rundell, Julie Scrase, Philip Watson
Archipelago: Issue 6 Winter 2011
Contributors: Norman Ackroyd, John Elder (on Tim Robinson), Geoffrey Hill (four new poems), Alan Jenkins, James Macdonald Lockhart, Pàdraig Macaoidh, Norman MacCaig, Robert Macfarlane, Gail McNeillie, Alexander Moffat, Andrew Motion, Bernard O’Donoghue, Alice Oswald, Alan Riach, Mark Roper, Katherine Rundell
Archipelago: Issue Five Spring 2011
Contributors: Norman Ackroyd, Meg Bateman, Rachael Boast, Nichola Deane, Tim Dee, Douglas Dunn, Seton Gordon, John Greening, Caspar Henderson, John Kerrigan, James Macdonald Lockhart, Michael Longley, Robert Macfarlane, Gail McNeillie, Les Murray
Archipelago: Issue Four Winter 2009
Contributors: Norman Ackroyd, Ronald Blythe, John Burnside, Douglas Dunn, Robin Gillanders, Richard Hines, Mick Imlah, James Macdonald Lockhart, Robert Macfarlane, Peter Mackay, Andrew McNeillie, Katherine Rundell, David Sergeant, Jessie Sheeler
Archipelago: Issue Three Spring 2009
Contributors: Norman Ackroyd, Tim Dee, Niamh Clancy, Ivor Gurney, Richard Harms, Chris Jones, Andrew Kahn, Philip Lancaster, Michael Longley, Osip Mandelshtam, Peter McDonald, Robert Macfarlane, Andrew McNeillie, Gail McNeillie, John Montague, Les Murray, David Nash, Bernard O’Donoghue, Heather O’Donoghue, Patrick Parrinder, George Pickow
Archipelago: Issue Two Spring 2008
Contributors: Norman Ackroyd, Julian Bell, George Chamier, Tim Dee, Greg Delanty, Douglas Dunn, Terry Eagleton, Seamus Heaney, Mick Imlah, Angela Leighton, Angus Macmillan, Andrew McNeillie, Gail McNeillie, Alexander Moffat, Bernard O’Donoghue, Sheila Pehrson, Jem Poster, Alan Riach, Fiona Stafford, David Wheatley
Archipelago: Issue One Summer 2007
Contributors: Paul Abbott, Norman Ackroyd, John Beatty, Julian Bell, Roger Deakin, Greg Delanty, Seamus Heaney, Mick Imlah, Nicolas Jacobs, Andrew Kahn, Michael Longley, Robert Macfarlane, Andrew McNeillie, Gail McNeillie, Derek Mahon, David Nash, Bernard O’Donoghue, Angharad Price, Mark Williams
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