Oxford Poetry: Oxford Poetry 1960

Oxford Poetry 1960

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 Fantasy Press 28pp
edited by John Fuller, Francis Hope
with Preface

A landmark issue, for the melancholy reason of being the last of the old-style Oxford Poetry volumes, but also interesting for the editors' then unprecedented decision not to include any of their own work. In compensation, they write a preface along the following lines: "Both book and poems could have been a lot larger, could have been made more pretentious to scale and to importance, if we hadn't decided originally to exclude both the 'dry stream' of sub-Movement and the 'wet stream' of sub-Beat: the two idioms which seem to have snapped up between them nine-tenths of the energy and perhaps sometimes even part of the talent of present Oxford poets. ... Anyone reading this anthology could doubtless pick out signs of having read Larkin, or of Corso, without any difficulty; anyone reading through the rejects (an unlikely situation, for which he can be grateful) could find very very bad poems which show no trace of having read either - nor of anything else." Dark green cover, with black logo vaguely built on a music notation staff.

Julian Mitchell: O Where You Go; Dead Clown; The Briefing; As Long As;

Dom Moraes: Another Summer; From The Horse's Mouth;

Anthony Podlecki: Not At Home;

David Pryce-Jones: A Lake At Dusk;

Mario Rinvolucri: Black Bread;

Roger Smith: The Island; In Another Land;

Barry Taylor: Staying in the City; Not Aloud; The Cynic; Socialist;

Edward Thomas: The Clearness of Morning; Only the warm, high-headed lover knows;

Bill Tydeman: Village Wedding; Song;

Christopher Williams: The Regrets; Near Myth;



			Oxford Poetry 1960 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 1959 * Forward to Oxford Poetry Vol 1 No 1 (Friday 8 May 1970) * Home Published by Fantasy Press 28pp edited by John Fuller, Francis Hope with Preface A landmark issue, for the melancholy reason of being the last of the old-style Oxford Poetry volumes, but also interesting for the editors' then unprecedented decision not to include any of their own work. In compensation, they write a preface along the following lines: "Both book and poems could have been a lot larger, could have been made more pretentious to scale and to importance, if we hadn't decided originally to exclude both the 'dry stream' of sub-Movement and the 'wet stream' of sub-Beat: the two idioms which seem to have snapped up between them nine-tenths of the energy and perhaps sometimes even part of the talent of present Oxford poets. ... Anyone reading this anthology could doubtless pick out signs of having read Larkin, or of Corso, without any difficulty; anyone reading through the rejects (an unlikely situation, for which he can be grateful) could find very very bad poems which show no trace of having read either - nor of anything else." Dark green cover, with black logo vaguely built on a music notation staff. Contents Julian Mitchell: O Where You Go; Dead Clown; The Briefing; As Long As; Dom Moraes: Another Summer; From The Horse's Mouth; Anthony Podlecki: Not At Home; David Pryce-Jones: A Lake At Dusk; Mario Rinvolucri: Black Bread; Roger Smith: The Island; In Another Land; Barry Taylor: Staying in the City; Not Aloud; The Cynic; Socialist; Edward Thomas: The Clearness of Morning; Only the warm, high-headed lover knows; Bill Tydeman: Village Wedding; Song; Christopher Williams: The Regrets; Near Myth; Copyright Oxford Poetry 2000. Pictured above: Detail from "Parnassus" by Nicholas Poussin

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