New Oxford Poetry 1937

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Published by Blackwell's vi+66pp
edited by Nevill Coghill, Alistair Sandford
with Introduction

"Many of the poems we print have a political flavour, but this is to be expected in a University at the present time".

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Contents

Nevill Coghill: Introduction;

Norman Bradshaw: Elegy in a Nonconformist Churchyard; Pro Monumento Communistico; The Bower of Bliss;

Arthur Coleridge: Wooden Crosses;

Gerald Cullinan: Night Piece;

Ronald Daffern: Triolet; Verse Written During an Hour;

Bernard Denvir: Composition;

John Dunlop: Teknik; Nory;

Denzil Dunnett: Hospital Morning; An Invitation;

Winifred Fox: Summer Magic;

Peter Higgs: "The Glorious Dead";

Herbert Howarth: New Year; Individual Despair; Interlude;

J. H. Jameson: The River;

Eileen Mackinley: Midas;

T. Marriner: Poem ("At penultimate hour, introduction to twoness..."); Favonius' Ode; Poem ("High lie the fields of Heaven: where");

S. A. Mason: After the Revolution; Love Song of a Lonely Man; Poem ("When he was young she took him with her beauty");

John Maxwell: After the Play; The Actress;

Una Monk: Already Corn;

R. C. Ormerod: To Lauro de Bosis, Oct 3rd, 1931;

Jayanta Padmanátha: A Change of Heart; The Good Morrow;

Antony Palmer: Poem ("Monk illuminating leaves"); Moonwatch;

Allan Plowman: Poet and Peasant;

Alistair Sandford: Introduction; Christmas;

Ian L. Serraillier: Starlings;

Michael Sheldon: Winter Landscape;

John Short: Landmark; Dialogue for Mummers;

Andrew Stallybrass: Winter Waiting;

Margaret Stanley-Wrench: The Shattered Path Leads Up;

Douglas Street: Willows;

John Walter: Rain;

Joan Yeaxlee: Poem ("Day strange discovered");

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