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Oxford Poetry Vol I No 3 (Spring 1984)From Fairie to the Somme: 1910-1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 Back to Oxford Poetry Vol I No 2 (Autumn 1983) * Forward to Oxford Poetry Vol II No 1 (Autumn 1984) * Home Published by Magdalen College 52pp The inclusion of unpublished Auden material was so successful, in boosting sales and getting the magazine noticed, that it was twice repeated: in II.3 and XI.1. This issue is also noteworthy for the Fullers, father and son, placing third and second in the translation competition (which was judged blind by D. J. Enright) behind the first winner, Nuala O'Farrell.
Contents
Simon Rae: Icarus; W. H. Auden: Ten unpublished poems (1927-1928), edited and introduced by Nicholas Jenkins; Stephen Spender: Interview by Peter McDonald; Richard Murphy: Canterbury Cathedral; Chalet; Anne Born: Dung-beetle; M. K. Peckham: From Another Summer; From "Unaccompanied Nocturnes": Beading Song; Mark Cromar: Calais-Paris (for John); Richard Arnold: My First Volcano; Michèle le Roux: Baths; Giovanni Voulgari: When The Body [translated by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke]; Terry Eagleton: Interview by Paul Hamilton; Mick Herron: A Small One; Bandits; The Drowning Lake; Kitchen Wood; Tonight; Paul Giles: The Poetry of John Ashbery; Rainer Maria Rilke: An Archaic Torso of Apollo [translated by Nuala O'Farrell, winner of Translation Competition]; Antique Fragment of an Apollo [translated by John Fuller, placed second]; An Ancient Torso of Apollo (after Rilke) [translated by Roy Fuller, placed third]; Copyright Oxford Poetry 2000. Pictured above: Detail from "Parnassus" by Nicholas Poussin |