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Oxford Poetry 1955From Fairie to the Somme: 1910-1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 Back to Oxford Poetry 1954 * Forward to Oxford Poetry 1956 * Home Published by Fantasy Press 52pp Contains the first dialect poems to appear in OP, which were by Daibhidh Mitchell and offer cribs to Celtic words such as lemanrie (wantonry).
Contents
Anthony Bailey: Man in Green and Black; Pastoral; John Creagh: Daphne; Sperlonga: Fishermen and Octopus Catchers; Hector's Passing; Bernard Donoughue: A Jew and his Dilemma; Christopher Driver: Paul to the Romans; Alistair Elliot: Liturgy for a Bedlamite; This Morning's Song; The Dancer's Song; Peter Ferguson: The Realisation; Geoffrey Foster: Eastern Landscape; William Hayward: To the Sea; The Hills; Dennis Keene: Atlas with Hour-glass; John King-Farlow: Forgotten Flirtation; Peter Levi, S.J.: Be Careful; Mrs Hanratty Wept; George MacBeth: Death in the Afternoon; The Echoing Cave; Adrian Mitchell: A Bird in the Head; The Death of Crusoe; Daibhidh Mitchell: Prayer; The Proposal; Apologie; Gabriel Pearson: The Moth; Richard Selig: Boyhood of Theseus; The Phoenix; A Meditation in Lent; Naughton Smith: The Women of Portland; Elegy in the West; Quentin Stevenson: No Voice Divine; The Need for Faith; Anthony Thwaite: The Gift; Explanation for Some; Aubrey's Brief Lives; The Silent Woman; Copyright Oxford Poetry 2000. Pictured above: Detail from "Parnassus" by Nicholas Poussin |