Oxford Poetry 1959

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Published by Fantasy Press 30pp
edited by Roger Lonsdale, Judy Spink
no preface

Designed by Oscar Mellor, the man behind the Fantasy Press, this has the most decorative cover of any of the Fantasy's issues: a giant red on yellow handwritten logo. The editors believe there to have been no Oxford Poetry in 1958, but the evidence either way is slight, and we would be pleased to be corrected.


Contents

Christopher Cousins: A Fear of Dreams;

John Fuller: Owls; White Queen;

Dennis Keene: The Humanists; Not quite a song;

Paris Leary: Judith;

Roger Lonsdale: Considerations; Sympathy;

Dom Moraes: Autobiography; Card Game; French Lesson;

Gabriel Pearson: Self-Sacrifice; The Lake at Evening;

Judy Spink: The Empress in her Garden; En Famille; The Approval;

Donald Thomas: The Procession;

Christopher Williams: Elegy ("When Love used all the metaphors of building"); Song ("Publishing Villon made him think of rhyme"); Rain;

R. K. Wright: German Bride; The Betrayed Lover takes to Car;


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