Oxford Poetry Vol VI No 1 (Summer 1991)

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 48pp
edited by Mark Wormald(2)
no preface

This was the issue in which the first Richard Ellmann Prize was awarded, by James Fenton, to Desmond Graham.


Contents

James Fenton: Judge's report on the Richard Ellmann Prize; Journey Without Maps: An Interview by Mark Wormald(2);

Desmond Graham: Three Snapshots: Leeds, York, Durham (Reprinted as winner of the Richard Ellmann Prize);

Paul Pearson: Pure Cinema;

David Kennedy: Situation Comedy;

Robert Saxton: The Rainy Season;

Susan Kelly: Tidying the Attic;

M. E. Howard: Tourists in the Harz, Summer 1990;

Gordon Mason: Embryo at Five Weeks;

Iona Ieronim: Oath of Allegiance [translated Adam Serkin and Sergiu Celac];

William Park: The Officials;

Maurice Riordan: Rural Electrification 1956; Keeper;

Stevie Krayer: A Valediction Forbidding Mourning;

Ian Pople: When the Saints;

John Lyons: News Breakers;

Conor O'Callaghan: Home;

Pat Marum: The Allotment;

Chris Woods: Stroke;

Sarah Dence: Healing History's Wounds: a review of 'Out of History' by Eavan Boland;

Denis Flannery: Eroding Borders: a review of 'The Sirocco Room' by Jamie McKendrick;

Bernard O'Donoghue: Great Effusions: a review of 'James Joyce: Poems and Shorter Writings' ed. Richard Ellmann, A. Walter Litz and John Whittier-Ferguson;

Jane Price: Admission; War Widow;

Tim Dooley: Tidying Up;

Fred Johnston: From Claddagh Beach, November;

Ian Pindar: 'Palsie shall shake them';

Ted McNulty: Peacock;

Jane Feaver: The Task;

Federico Garcia Lorca: Gacela of Desperate Love [translated by Merryn Williams]; Dream [translated by Merryn Williams];

David Constantine: Judge's report on the Hölderlin Translation Competition;

Friedrich Hölderlin: Hope ['An Die Hofnung', translated by Tim Turner and Martyn Crucefix];


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