Oxford Poetry 1952

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New Age: 1936 1937
War and Movement: 1942-1943 1946:No 1 1946:No 2 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952
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Published by Blackwell's 48pp
edited by Derwent May, James Price
no preface

This was the final volume to be published by Blackwell & Mott. The series thereafter moved to the Fantasy Press of Eynsham, which was already publishing a pamphlet series ("The Fantasy Poets") in collaboration with the University poetry society.


Contents

A. Alvarez: The Marksmen; The Bacchae;

Simon Broadbent: On a Presentiment of Death by Drowning; Attendants on Leda; The Giant-Killer;

Alan Brownjohn: Holy Communion; A Dutch Interior;

Donald Hall: January 31st, 1951; September Ode; Wedding Party; A Golden Wedding;

Geoffrey Hill: Pentecost; Saint Cuthbert on Farne Island;

Jenny Joseph, as Jennie Joseph: Preparations for a Journey; Visitors and Strangers;

Derwent May: A Love Letter; Gambler; Christmas Poem; Lips in the Kiss Turn...;

W. H. Oliver: Ceremony of Pain;

James Price: Jacob and the Angel; The Machine-Shed; A Lady in a Garden;

Peter Dale Scott: Garden; Elegy in a Spring Garden; On Listening to Old Gramophone Records with Miss Banting;

Michael Shanks: Gateway to a Maltese Villa;

George Steiner, as F. George Steiner: After Cannae; Nantucket Coast; Art pour Art;

Paul West: Spell; Cleared Site: Coventry, 1950; Time to Borrow; In Camera;

Pearce Young: The Chase; Resurrection; Upon Reading an Old Book; To Your Winters;


Copyright Oxford Poetry 2000. Pictured above: Detail from "Parnassus" by Nicholas Poussin