Numbers was a literary magazine published twice a year in Cambridge, England, between 1986 and 1990. Six issues of the magazine appeared, of which the last was a double issue to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of the American poet and novelist Janet Lewis.Numbers, volumes I to IV, Cambridge, 1986 to 1989, . Issue 4 was a celebration of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.
Each issue contained an editorial, poems, translations and prose by poets.
Numbers was founded and edited by John Alexander, Alison Rimmer, Peter Robinson and Clive Wilmer.
The magazine emerged from the editors' involvement with the 1977 to 1985 Cambridge Poetry Festivals, and with the exhibition Pound's Artists at Kettle's Yard and the Tate Gallery.
Contributors Notable contributors to the magazine included: John Ash John Ashbery Yves Bonnefoy Edgar Bowers Alison Brackenbury Donald Davie Douglas Dunn Lauris Edmond U. A. Fanthorpe Elaine Feinstein Roy Fisher Franco Fortini Adèle Geras György Gömöri Thom Gunn Rachel Hadas Seamus Heaney Attila József August Kleinzahler Janet Lewis Grevel Lindop Michael Longley Bill Manhire E. A. Markham Medbh McGuckian Jamie McKendrick Matthew Mead Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Christopher Middleton Nicholas Moore Ruth Padel György Petri Peter Riley Stephen Romer E. J. Scovell Vittorio Sereni Vikram Seth Ken Smith Elizabeth Smither Timothy Steele Grete Tartler Charles Tomlinson John Tranter Gael Turnbull Michael Vince Marguerite Yourcenar
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