Oxford Poetry: Oxford Poetry No 2 November 1946

Oxford Poetry No 2 November 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

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

This issue is notable for two previously unpublished poems by Sidney Keyes, who was killed in action in 1943; the poems were provided by Michael Meyer, who was in 1946 assembling Keyes's Collected Poems for press.

Audrey M. Arnold: Marine;

Ian Bancroft: Love Poems; Poems in May 1944 (To K.);

Henry Barnby: Poem "I dreamt I saw a sun rise from the sea";

Arthur Boyars: Lycidas; Pavane de la Belle au Bois Dormant (after Maurice Ravel);

Guy Butler: Syrian Spring; Servant Girl;

I. D. Davies: Life's Voyage (from the Greek of Palladas); Old Friend from Helicarnassus (Callimachus);

Patrick Gardiner: To the Snow Queen; Poem "Goodbye, May - on a pool of tears and roses";

Derek Jewell: Song of the Anglo-Saxon Mother (England AD 900);

Sidney Keyes: Cathay; Meditation of Phlebas the Phoenician;

Francis King: From a Greek Frieze; The Harp;

Michael Lloyd: Mediterranean; To Poins;

John Longrigg: Elegy; Poem "Now my darling that it is all over";

Roy Macnab: Witwatersrand;

Joanna Richardson: Dover-Victoria;

Gordon Swaine: The Bombed Cemetery;

Terence Watson: Cherry Tree; The Adventure;



			Oxford Poetry No 2 November 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 No 1 June 1946 * Forward to Oxford Poetry 1947 * Home Published by Jesus College 20pp edited by Roy Macnab, Gordon Swaine no preface This issue is notable for two previously unpublished poems by Sidney Keyes, who was killed in action in 1943; the poems were provided by Michael Meyer, who was in 1946 assembling Keyes's Collected Poems for press. Contents Audrey M. Arnold: Marine; Ian Bancroft: Love Poems; Poems in May 1944 (To K.); Henry Barnby: Poem "I dreamt I saw a sun rise from the sea"; Arthur Boyars: Lycidas; Pavane de la Belle au Bois Dormant (after Maurice Ravel); Guy Butler: Syrian Spring; Servant Girl; I. D. Davies: Life's Voyage (from the Greek of Palladas); Old Friend from Helicarnassus (Callimachus); Patrick Gardiner: To the Snow Queen; Poem "Goodbye, May - on a pool of tears and roses"; Derek Jewell: Song of the Anglo-Saxon Mother (England AD 900); Sidney Keyes: Cathay; Meditation of Phlebas the Phoenician; Francis King: From a Greek Frieze; The Harp; Michael Lloyd: Mediterranean; To Poins; John Longrigg: Elegy; Poem "Now my darling that it is all over"; Roy Macnab: Witwatersrand; Joanna Richardson: Dover-Victoria; Gordon Swaine: The Bombed Cemetery; Terence Watson: Cherry Tree; The Adventure; Copyright Oxford Poetry 2000. Pictured above: Detail from "Parnassus" by Nicholas Poussin

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