''Numbers'' was a literary magazine published twice a year in

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, 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. Issue 4 was a celebration of the Portuguese poet

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. 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

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s, and with the exhibition

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and the

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Contributors

Notable contributors to the magazine included:

References

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