Oxford Poetry: Oxford Poetry Vol X No 3: Rus et Urbs (Summer 1999)

Oxford Poetry Vol X No 3: Rus et Urbs (Summer 1999)

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, Jane Griffiths
no preface

With notes on contributors, submissions, back issues, subscriptions and acknowledgements. Cover: detail from the 1:25000 scale Ordnance Survey map "Explorer 13: Lleyn Peninsula East", the landscape described in John Fuller's poem "Round and Round": occupying 93 stanzas of rime royale, and thus 851 lines long, this is the longest poem ever to appear in Oxford Poetry. (The shortest is "After Basho" by Ian Hamilton Finlay, in XI.2, which contains only five words.)

John Fuller: Round and Round;

Andrea Gibellini: A Street (translated by N. S. Thompson);

Umberto Fiori: Visions (translated by Alistair Elliot); Chin (translated by Alistair Elliot); Tight Places (translated by Alistair Elliot);

Pier Paolo Pasolini: from Southern Dawn (translated by N. S. Thompson);

Rainer Maria Rilke: Abishag (translated by W. D. Jackson);

N. S. Thompson: The [American] New Formalism: revolt or reaction? An appraisal of its aims and dangers;

Bernard O'Donoghue: Interview;

M. Rukmini Callimachi: The Anatomy of Wildflowers;

Ian Pople: The Contours of Again;

Giles Goodland: Inside the Hole;

John Chandler: Progress;

Peter Scupham: In Camera;

Jennifer L. Grigg: Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan, Stands for her Betrothal Portrait;

Simon Carnell: The Crystal Palace;

Merryn Williams: Wilfred's Bridge;

Elizabeth Barrett: The Man Who Hated The Sun;

Oxford Poetry Vol X No 3: Rus et Urbs (Summer 1999)

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