Oxford Poetry: Oxford Poetry No 1 June 1946

Oxford Poetry No 1 June 1946

From Fairie to the Somme: 1910-1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923
Into the Waste Land: 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932
New Age: 1936 1937
War and Movement: 1942-1943 1946:No 1 1946:No 2 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952
The Fantasy: 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1959 1960
"Fortnightly": 1970:No 1 1970:No 2 1970:No 3
Magazine: I.1 I.2 I.3 II.1 II.2 II.3 III.1 III.2 III.3 IV.1 IV.2 IV.3
Fin de siècle: V.1 V.2 V.3 VI.1 VI.2 VI.3 VII.1 VII.2 VII.3 VIII.1 VIII.2 VIII.3 IX.1 IX.2
Rebound: X.1 X.2 X.3 XI.1

Back to Oxford Poetry 1942-1943 * Forward to Oxford Poetry No 2 November 1946 * Home

Published by Jesus College 20pp
edited by Roy Macnab, Gordon Swaine
no preface

As the difficulties of paper rationing eased, these two pamphlet half-volumes were intended to be a post-war relaunch of the idea of OP, published at Jesus College, priced at one shilling and to appear "at least once a term". The pamphlets were printed by the Alden Press as 16pp with a flimsy cover, and poems continued onto both sides of the back cover. Both issues contain some strikingly good verse, much of it war reportage such as Ian Bancroft's excellent "Bridge on the Orne, 1944", and would have made the best Blackwell's-style volume in many years. Perhaps this is why in 1947 Blackwell's resumed the series. Macnab remained as editor and although the traditional format also resumed, it was redesigned in the style of the pamphlet covers, which were by V. G. Collenette.

Ian Bancroft: Bridge on the Orne, 1944; The Beauchamp Chapel (Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick); Funeral;

Patrick Gardiner: Medea's Departure from Corinth; Napoleon at St. Helena; London Spring;

Norman Hampson: For Our Returning;

Anthony de Hoghton: The Country Wife; Poem "The daffodils are dead, the murderous summer";

J. B. Leishman: Translated from the German of Reinhold Schneider, two of 12 sonnets written in 1944: 1. To a Priest Whose Church Had Been Entirely Destroyed; 2. Sonnet "Only the men of prayer in these last hours"; Translated from the German of Werner Bergengruen, a member of the Austrian Resistance Movement, whose poems, written in the summer of 1944, were extensively circulated in MS: The Last Epiphany;

Reinhold Schneider: Translated by J. B. Leishman, two of 12 sonnets written in 1944: 1. To a Priest Whose Church Had Been Entirely Destroyed; 2. Sonnet "Only the men of prayer in these last hours";

Werner Bergengruen: Translated by J. B. Leishman: The Last Epiphany;

John Longrigg: To-Morrow in the Flippant World; Poem "This afternoon bombardment";

Roy Macnab: Blind Kings; The Eagle, the Man and the Weathercock;

Michael Meyer: The Lost Leader;

David Morris: Poem "I'll catch the careless stranger"; The Princess;

Gordon Swaine: Valse Triste; In Memory of Mistress Katherine Ryche;

G. A. Wagner: The Cherry Tree; Airgraph for Ruth; Concepts;

Terence Watson: Basilisk; The Mere; Argonaut;



			Oxford Poetry No 1 June 1946 From Fairie to the Somme: 1910-1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 Into the Waste Land: 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 New Age: 1936 1937 War and Movement: 1942-1943 1946:No 1 1946:No 2 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 The Fantasy: 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1959 1960 "Fortnightly": 1970:No 1 1970:No 2 1970:No 3 Magazine: I.1 I.2 I.3 II.1 II.2 II.3 III.1 III.2 III.3 IV.1 IV.2 IV.3 Fin de siècle: V.1 V.2 V.3 VI.1 VI.2 VI.3 VII.1 VII.2 VII.3 VIII.1 VIII.2 VIII.3 IX.1 IX.2 Rebound: X.1 X.2 X.3 XI.1 Back to Oxford Poetry 1942-1943 * Forward to Oxford Poetry No 2 November 1946 * Home Published by Jesus College 20pp edited by Roy Macnab, Gordon Swaine no preface As the difficulties of paper rationing eased, these two pamphlet half-volumes were intended to be a post-war relaunch of the idea of OP, published at Jesus College, priced at one shilling and to appear "at least once a term". The pamphlets were printed by the Alden Press as 16pp with a flimsy cover, and poems continued onto both sides of the back cover. Both issues contain some strikingly good verse, much of it war reportage such as Ian Bancroft's excellent "Bridge on the Orne, 1944", and would have made the best Blackwell's-style volume in many years. Perhaps this is why in 1947 Blackwell's resumed the series. Macnab remained as editor and although the traditional format also resumed, it was redesigned in the style of the pamphlet covers, which were by V. G. Collenette. Contents Ian Bancroft: Bridge on the Orne, 1944; The Beauchamp Chapel (Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick); Funeral; Patrick Gardiner: Medea's Departure from Corinth; Napoleon at St. Helena; London Spring; Norman Hampson: For Our Returning; Anthony de Hoghton: The Country Wife; Poem "The daffodils are dead, the murderous summer"; J. B. Leishman: Translated from the German of Reinhold Schneider, two of 12 sonnets written in 1944: 1. To a Priest Whose Church Had Been Entirely Destroyed; 2. Sonnet "Only the men of prayer in these last hours"; Translated from the German of Werner Bergengruen, a member of the Austrian Resistance Movement, whose poems, written in the summer of 1944, were extensively circulated in MS: The Last Epiphany; Reinhold Schneider: Translated by J. B. Leishman, two of 12 sonnets written in 1944: 1. To a Priest Whose Church Had Been Entirely Destroyed; 2. Sonnet "Only the men of prayer in these last hours"; Werner Bergengruen: Translated by J. B. Leishman: The Last Epiphany; John Longrigg: To-Morrow in the Flippant World; Poem "This afternoon bombardment"; Roy Macnab: Blind Kings; The Eagle, the Man and the Weathercock; Michael Meyer: The Lost Leader; David Morris: Poem "I'll catch the careless stranger"; The Princess; Gordon Swaine: Valse Triste; In Memory of Mistress Katherine Ryche; G. A. Wagner: The Cherry Tree; Airgraph for Ruth; Concepts; Terence Watson: Basilisk; The Mere; Argonaut; Copyright Oxford Poetry 2000. Pictured above: Detail from "Parnassus" by Nicholas Poussin

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