The poetry magazine Agenda was founded in 1959 by Cookson after a suggestion by Ezra Pound, with whom he corresponded and a volume of whose prose he has edited. It still comes out, still prints contemporary poetry - there was an Irish number recently - and this anthology covers the years 1959 to 1993. The contributors in that period have included Pound, David Jones, Hugh McDiarmid, William Carlos Williams, Basil Bunting, and among more recent names, Heaney, R.S. Thomas, Geoffrey Hill. There is a section given to translations, and various prose essays and occasional pieces are added at the end, including Basil Bunting's idiosyncratic memories of Yeats in Rapallo in the 1930s. Surely an essential volume for readers of contemporary poetry?