Oxford Poetry: Oxford Poetry Vol X No 2: Formal (Winter 1998)

Oxford Poetry Vol X No 2: Formal (Winter 1998)

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 64pp
edited by Graham Nelson, Robert Macfarlane
no preface

With notes on contributors, submissions, back issues, subscriptions and acknowledgements. Cover: "The Magic Apple Tree" (painting by Samuel Palmer), inset in colours which have been described to the editors as peach on orange, and showed less contrast on the display lettering than had been hoped: 1998 is now just about long enough ago that the editors can almost find this a funny story. The Rilke translation seminar by Michael Hoffman proved to be a big hit with Oxford Poetry's readers, at least to judge from the post-bag: it came about largely thanks to Jo Shapcott, who suggested the feature and put in many good words for us. N. S. Thompson was also very helpful with the American Formalist poets feature.

John Kinsella: Poems on the 150th anniversary of the Fitzwilliam Museum (The Magic Apple Tree; Out of Picasso's "Still life with green apple and glass" (1923)); Cranach's Venus Wows Them On The Catwalks of New York;

Ian Sansom: Occasionally, Sometimes, Never;

David Norbrook: The Maya for Snow;

Nicholas Murray: Laurel;

Christine McNeill: The Connoisseur;

Polly Clark: Letter to the Man I Love;

Robin Hayter: Fuel for Diarists: Virginia Woolf's cuisine;

Caitriona O'Reilly: Octopus; A Weekend at Bodega Bay; Blueness;

Roger Waterfield: Columba;

Mark Goodwin: Map;

Annemarie Austin: Salvage;

Jo Shapcott: An interview;

Michael Hoffman: Circular Letter, beginning the Rainer Maria Rilke Translation Seminar;

Rainer Maria Rilke: Handinneres (original German text); Hand-Inside (transliteration and notes by Michael Hoffman); Palm Of The Hand (translation by Alistair Elliot); The Lunatics (translation of "Die Irren" by John Kinsella); Abisag (original German text); Abishag (transliteration and notes by Michael Hoffman); Abishag (translation by Alistair Elliot); Abishag (translation by Elaine Feinstein); Abishag (translation by John Kinsella); Abishag (translation by Jo Shapcott);

Wyatt Prunty: The Poem;

Mary Jo Salter: Sound Effects: Louis MacNeice, 1907-1963;

Dana Gioia: Unsaid; Pentecost;

Rachel Hadas: Well Villanelle; Thick and Thin;

David Mason: Janus: A Birthday Poem; Two Visitations;

Jeremy Noel-Tod: Quiet Among The Thunderers: a review of "Rounding the Horn" by Jon Stallworthy;

Joyelle McSweeney: Paul Muldoon in medias res: a review of "Hay" by Paul Muldoon;

Robert Macfarlane: Short review of Adam Zagajewski, "Mysticism for Beginners";

Jeremy Noel-Tod: Short review of Michael Longley, "Selected Poems";

Graham Nelson: Short review of R. B. Parkinson (ed.), "Voices from Ancient Egypt";

Oxford Poetry Vol X No 2: Formal (Winter 1998)

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