| For Edmund Blunden | Christopher Fry |
| Not Forgetting a First World War Veteran | Christopher Pilling |
| Every One a Masterpiece | Hugh de Wet (1st prize) |
| The Life and Death of a Photograph | Gerard Malanga |
| Gunplay, in Three Acts | David Hoyle (2nd prize) |
| Joe's | Michael W. Thomas |
| Funerals | Susannah Waters (3rd prize) |
| The School for Lacemaking | Judy Gahagan |
| The Fordson | Brian Phelan (4th prize) |
| Story about a Bird | Toshikazu Yasumizu |
| Readers' Stand | |
| Be Good, Sweet Maid | Julia Widdows (5th prize) |
| Zoo | Polly Clark |
| Reading | Oliver Robinson |
| The Cloughaneely Goose | Owen Gallagher |
| Snow Whirls Over | Tua Forsstrom, Trans. Fred Jones |
| Recent Poetry | Vicki Bertram |
| To the Unknown Soldier on a Phrygian Bas-Relief | Necati Cumali trans. Ruth Christie |
| Two Poems | Graeme Stones |
| Recent Poetry | David McDuff |
| Untitled poem | Jon Silkin | |
| Editorial | Rodney Pybus | |
| Four Poems | Jon Silkin | |
| Curfew | Sean O'Reilly | |
| Another View of Thanatos | Vernon Scannell | |
| The Old Lily Pond | David Jacobs | |
| Dreams After Childbirth | Janet Montefiore | |
| Readers Stand | ||
| Renvyle Peninsula August '95 | James Simmons | |
| 'I wonder where I'm gonna die?' | Helen Thomas | |
| Two Poems | Daphne Gloag | |
| The small green elephant | Patricia Tyrrell | |
| Doing Time | Marita Over | |
| The Passionate Embrace | Robert Hrdina | |
| The Perugino's Garden | John Sewell | |
| Parson Dent's Sunday Morning | David Harmer | |
| The Ladies Annual Pocket Book | Lynne Rees | |
| The Commitment Campaign | Gary Woodhouse | |
| Erbistock | Peter Bennett | |
| Father and Son | Bill Duncan | |
| Adriaen t'Kint | W.S. Milne | |
| Bible Mace | Terry Brindley | |
| Two Poems | Pauline Plummer | |
| How the Angels Fly In | Ron Butlin | |
| The cold the homeless feel | Richard Deutch | |
| Sister | Leonard Hill | |
| Ghazal for William Stafford | David Keefe | |
| In Line | Sheila Smith | |
| Australian Poetry: The Quality of Sprawl | Sarah Coley | |
| Persons Unknown | Philip Gross | |
| The Betrothal Cake | Penny Sumner | |
| Recent Poetry | John Lucas |
| Life and Art XV | Michael Hamburger |
| A Poetry Reading in Connecticut | Vivian Shipley |
| The Unstoppable Syllables of Touch | Frank Dullaghan |
| Bloodroots | Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons |
| The Dog Shoot | Fiona Owen |
| Learning, Learning | Andrew Kennedy |
| When the Watery Monsters Argued | Jack Mapanje |
| Kopka | James Sutherland-Smith |
| Shepherding children through the Iron Fountain | Simon Lichman |
| Pictures of Tunisia | Tariq Latif |
| Satis: The History of a Little Magazine | Jim Burne |
| Bill's Column | William Scammell |
| Two Poems | John Burnside |
| September | Charles Higham |
| Bara-Singha | Tabish Khair |
| Stained Glass | Jonathan Tuffin |
| Letter from India 1895 | Terry Brindley |
| Where we came in | Dai Vaughan |
| What Old Pilots Say | Walter McDonald |
| Man Peeing | H.M. Shukman |
| Royal Garden | Ben Mazer |
| Chinese Lantern | John L. O'Donnell |
| Readers' Stand | |
| The Cocoanut Grove | Elaine Ford |
| The wren bird | D. V. Cooke |
| The Quarrel | Sarah Corbett |
| Wash Night | Tom French |
| Idealisation | Andrew Jordan |
| Poem | Nichael A. Kinsella |
| Recent Poetry | Ian Gregson |
| Two Poems | Hebe Blue |
| Falling Warrior (After Henry Moore) | Martin Bennett |
| Master Leo's Concubine | Chen Ket Sinc |
| The Brahma | Michael Nath |
| Kite Flying | Rebecca New |
| Taking nothing | Jo Haslam |
| Two Poems | David cameron |
| Duet 1 | Wayne Burrows |
| Tongue Twister | James Sutherland-Smith |
| Afterwards | Ulrike Kolb |
| Two Poems | Alan Dunnett |
| Epidemics 1996 | Tony Supperstein |
| Painting the Legends | Alice Friman |
| Flaying the Satyr | Lee Sands |
| Of Whales | John Gibbens |
| Recen Poetry | Simon Curtis |
| After Kafka's Leopard | Norman Kreitman |