Oxford Poetry Vol IV No 2 (Autumn 1988)

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 52pp
edited by Mark Wormald(2) with Sarah Dence, Bernard O'Donoghue
no preface

Again a themed issue: Younger Women Poets.

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Contents

Wendy Cope: On a Country Bus; Letter; Nine-Line Triolet;

Elizabeth Bartlett: Roman Carnival; A Nice Family;

Mary Elizabeth O'Donnell: Reading the Sunflowers in September; Cuckold; Monk in the Outer Hebrides;

Carol Ann Duffy: Confession; Eley's Bullet;

Pamela Gillilan: Lighting the Fire; Summer Festival; Semmelweiss, and...;

Eavan Boland: Mountain Time;

David Grubb: Out of Time; Music in Winter; Fearing the Winter Prophets; Light;

Andrew Motion: Interview by Mark Wormald(2); One Who Disappeared;

Robert Saxton: Mohicans;

Liz Arden: Hoards;

David Winwood: The Grime of the Pilgrimage;

Roz Cowman: The Old Clerk;

Paul Groves: Something Nasty in the Woodshed;

Mick Herron: The operations of the heart (after Bellow);

Carole Satyamurti: Following; One Way Windows; Your Most Surprising Present;

Cathal McCabe: Lucia [a version of James Joyce's letters];

Barbara Feyerabend: Fama Gloriaque [after the Arabic of al Mutanabbi (915-65 AD)]; Sisyphus in Munich; Narcissus;

Harry Smart: A dream of wisdom;

Rosalind Ingrams: The Ring Road;

N. S. Thompson: Transference, 1966;

Helen Kidd: Mountain Landscape-Figures walking on a Ridge;

Mark Cromar: Going up;

Patrick Cotter: Party for Innocents May 1971;

Glyn Maxwell: Poem Of The Births;

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