Oxford Poetry: Oxford Poetry Vol 1 No 1 (Friday 8 May 1970)

Oxford Poetry Vol 1 No 1 (Friday 8 May 1970)

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 Magdalen College 16pp
edited by Mark Wormald(1), Robin Leanse
no preface

The first of what was planned to be a fortnightly magazine relaunch of Oxford Poetry, cheaply but imaginatively produced. There were drawings by John Symes, Jane Burdett and Rupert Legge, and the cover is a photograph of a classical sculpture (male and female). The editorial consists of a sequence of definitions of "poetry", such as: "Poetry is a rickety bridge between isolated irrational subjectives." The whole thing sold for one and sixpence, less than a third of the cost of Oxford Poetry in 1960. Though the enterprise had not long to live, it was the forerunner of the present version, also published at Magdalen College.

Alan Evison: A Poem ("Only by the coupling of movement");

Paul Nathanson: To Helen II; Montmartre-Saturday 1969; Early Morning, Early Evening;

Paul Carter: The Petal Falls;

Robin Leanse: "I felt the clouds obscure the sun";

John Symons: Parabola; Snow; Stone on Stone; Recount; Bricks and Water; Pebbles; New Bracken;

Anthony Gash: "Le songe est savoir-an answer we ask"; "More like Humpty Dumpty than Osiris"; "'No,' you're saying, 'sometimes I want to cry'"; Jealous Friend Blues;

Oxford Poetry Vol 1 No 1 (Friday 8 May 1970)

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