Oxford Poetry 1950

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 Blackwell's 56pp
edited by J. B. Donne, Donald Watt
with Foreword

"The editors believe these poems to be able to stand by themselves without the protective label 'Oxford'..."


Contents

Paul Almond: Beach;

Norman Beswick: Eve; Rain;

S. R. Broadbent: On A Crucifixion By Durer;

J. B. Donne: Foreword; Lines for a Future Generation of Worms; The Return of the Unicorn II, III, IV;

Richard Freeborn: "Under the bitter arches..."; Incident; For Javoricko in Moravia;

R. G. Furnival: Blues;

Peter Gammond: Things That Were Right All Three; I Got No Alms; Of A Day Past;

W. J. Harvey: De Natura Chameleonis; The Green Garden;

Elizabeth Jennings: Diana;

Derek Jewell: Summer's Meeting; Vice Versa;

Christopher Middleton: Prophylaxis against Rhetoric; The Gold Fish; December Sunday Morning Laundry;

G. B. Payman: The Song of the Grey Heart;

James Price, as J. B. Price: No Title ("There are soldiers on the sea's edge");

Michell Raper: Atlantis; The sleep of children in a troubled time;

J. M. Russell: Parable of the Fall; Sonnet; The Single Nature of the Beast;

Basil Saunders: Eheu Fugaces;

Martin Seymour-Smith: Imagined Child; Winter for William; Men of the Island;

Lois Stockley: Palinode;

Donald Watt: Foreword; Subtraction; Incantation (ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE); Possibilities;

Peter Weitzman: On Re-reading Alice; In Praise of an Old Bachelor; On a Lithograph of John Minton;

Lotte Zurndorfer: Goodbye (to M. U.); Prayer for a Child;


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