Oxford Poetry: Oxford Poetry Vol IX No 2 (Winter 1995)

Oxford Poetry Vol IX No 2 (Winter 1995)

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 Vol IX No 1 (Summer 1995) * Forward to Oxford Poetry Vol X No 1: Modern French Poetry (Easter 1998) * Home

Published by Magdalen College 48pp
edited by Sinéad Garrigan, Sam Leith
no preface

This was the last issue of the stapled Oxford Poetry, 1983 to 1995 (actually early 1996): it was to begin again two years' later, and with X.1 (not IX.3, which never appeared). If the editing of OP since 1910 could be compared to a relay race, this was where the baton was briefly dropped. During 1996-7, Amanda Pilz and Jo Walsh kept the business side going, but the new editor, Gillian Pachter, was spending that year abroad: so it was planned that she would start the magazine up again during 1997-8. Unaware of these arrangements, Jane Griffiths and Graham Nelson hatched a scheme to revive it themselves, and in the event all three ended up editing the new run. Our long-suffering subscribers proved as loyal as ever, and subscriptions with time left to run in 1996 were eventually all honoured, so that it could just about be said that there was only a delay in publication and not an actual break.

Peter Marshall: Dowser; Tinnitus; Pythonesque; The Café Where the Angels Are; Threaded Upon A Lace;

Judith Bishop: Out of Ireland;

Sebastian Schloessingk: Banter;

Tim Liardet: Waiting for the Number One Hundred;

Stephen Knight: Methuselah;

David Jacobs: Peonies;

Ross Cogan: Mr Hobbes Examines a Crane-fly;

Peter Werner: Outline of a Script; Pampered, Then Parboiled;

Justin Quinn: An interview by Selina Guinness; Silence;

Martin Bennett: Between the Lines;

Graham Nelson: A Life Sciences Mission;

Christopher Emery: Feathers;

Antony Mylonás: A Night Out on Thasos;

Paul Henry: Burning Old Loves; Mother;

Caroline Price: Cull; Leeds Park;

David Hart: I imagine her turning up on my doorstep and saying; This is the vessel;

John Drexel: Reassurance; Astrologies;

Terry Eagleton: Critic Laureate? A review of "The Redress of Poetry" by Seamus Heaney;

Rónán McDonald: Powder and Paint: a review of "Gunpowder" by Bernard O'Donoghue and "My Alexandria" by Mark Doty;

Gillian Pachter: Bad Accents & A Certain Gallic Dignity: a review of "The Shuttered Eye" by Julia Copus and "Love Among the Guilty" by Helen Kitson;

Christopher Logue: An interview by Sam Leith;

Ian Hamilton Finlay: After Basho;



			Oxford Poetry Vol IX No 2 (Winter 1995) 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 Vol IX No 1 (Summer 1995) * Forward to Oxford Poetry Vol X No 1: Modern French Poetry (Easter 1998) * Home Published by Magdalen College 48pp edited by Sinéad Garrigan, Sam Leith no preface This was the last issue of the stapled Oxford Poetry, 1983 to 1995 (actually early 1996): it was to begin again two years' later, and with X.1 (not IX.3, which never appeared). If the editing of OP since 1910 could be compared to a relay race, this was where the baton was briefly dropped. During 1996-7, Amanda Pilz and Jo Walsh kept the business side going, but the new editor, Gillian Pachter, was spending that year abroad: so it was planned that she would start the magazine up again during 1997-8. Unaware of these arrangements, Jane Griffiths and Graham Nelson hatched a scheme to revive it themselves, and in the event all three ended up editing the new run. Our long-suffering subscribers proved as loyal as ever, and subscriptions with time left to run in 1996 were eventually all honoured, so that it could just about be said that there was only a delay in publication and not an actual break. Contents Peter Marshall: Dowser; Tinnitus; Pythonesque; The Café Where the Angels Are; Threaded Upon A Lace; Judith Bishop: Out of Ireland; Sebastian Schloessingk: Banter; Tim Liardet: Waiting for the Number One Hundred; Stephen Knight: Methuselah; David Jacobs: Peonies; Ross Cogan: Mr Hobbes Examines a Crane-fly; Peter Werner: Outline of a Script; Pampered, Then Parboiled; Justin Quinn: An interview by Selina Guinness; Silence; Martin Bennett: Between the Lines; Graham Nelson: A Life Sciences Mission; Christopher Emery: Feathers; Antony Mylonás: A Night Out on Thasos; Paul Henry: Burning Old Loves; Mother; Caroline Price: Cull; Leeds Park; David Hart: I imagine her turning up on my doorstep and saying; This is the vessel; John Drexel: Reassurance; Astrologies; Terry Eagleton: Critic Laureate? A review of "The Redress of Poetry" by Seamus Heaney; Rónán McDonald: Powder and Paint: a review of "Gunpowder" by Bernard O'Donoghue and "My Alexandria" by Mark Doty; Gillian Pachter: Bad Accents & A Certain Gallic Dignity: a review of "The Shuttered Eye" by Julia Copus and "Love Among the Guilty" by Helen Kitson; Christopher Logue: An interview by Sam Leith; Ian Hamilton Finlay: After Basho; Copyright Oxford Poetry 2000. Pictured above: Detail from "Parnassus" by Nicholas Poussin

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