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Ronald Daffern
1937: Triolet; Verse Written During an Hour

Lawrence Dale
IV.3: Benefit Office

D. N. Dalglish
1917: Otmoor

Cahal Dallat
VII.3: Holy Tundish, Markham Main; Dilat Q'hal

Michael Daugherty
VIII.1: Loose Nots

Ian Davie (editor 1942-1943)
Poet and theologian.
1942-1943: Introduction; Ballade; Reflection; Entreaty
1947: A Prologue
1948: Ithaca (For D. S. S.)

Hilary Davies
III.1: "The river bends..."

I. D. Davies
1946:No 2: Life's Voyage (from the Greek of Palladas); Old Friend from Helicarnassus (Callimachus)

John Davies
IX.1: Bluegrass; A short history of the north Wales coast; Raven
IX.1: Breakaway: a review of "War Voices" by Tony Curtis and "Parables & Faxes" by Gwyneth Lewis

Ann Davis
1947: Bestiary; Sweet Helen

Hannah Daw
X.1: Marinated Heart

A. J. Dawe
1910-1913: A Rhyme
1914: Verses for some Coloured Drawings; To Mary

Gerald Dawe
III.3: Local People
IV.3: Safe Houses
V.2: A Story

J. Dawson-Jackson
1930: Round a Table, Made of a Box

Sarah Dence
V.2: Voting and Violins: review of "A Scottish Assembly" by Robert Crawford
VI.1: Healing History's Wounds: a review of 'Out of History' by Eavan Boland

Geoffery Dennis (editor 1910-1913)
Unclassifiable writer of 1930s ephemera, though the uncharitable might call him a hack: his works include a 1937 commentary on the Coronation of Edward VIII.
1910-1913: Napoleon's Last Victory; The West Countree; A Song of the Hills and My Friend

Bernard Denvir
1937: Composition

G. D. Desmond
1918: Home-Coming; Age

Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
III.3: Aubade [translated by Michael Longley]; The Bond [translated by Maeve McGuckian]

Eric Dickinson
1915: The Dance of the Blood-red Sun
1916, as E. C. Dickinson: The Apple Orchard; Love Plays in the South
1917, as E. C. Dickinson: A Child's Voice; River Song
1918, as E. C. Dickinson: A Tavern Lilt (To W. W.)
1919: The Garden
1920: Three Sonnets

John Dixon
V.3: In Memory of Charlotte Mew

E. R. Dodds
Oxford Professor of Greek; close friend and collaborator, later to be literary executor, of
Louis MacNeice.
1916: The Awaiters of the Advent
1917: Measure

J. B. Donne (editor 1950, 1951)
Later an editor of Sheridan's "The Rivals".
1950: Foreword; Lines for a Future Generation of Worms; The Return of the Unicorn II, III, IV
1951: Poem for a Child; The Question; A Commendation; A Woman in Love; The Sage; Five Traditional Spanish Songs of the 15th and 16th centuries

Bernard Donoughue (editor 1956)
1955: A Jew and his Dilemma
1956: Linos; The Missionaries

Tim Dooley
VI.1: Tidying Up

Mark Doty
IX.2: Powder and Paint: a review by Rónán McDonald of "Gunpowder" by Bernard O'Donoghue and "My Alexandria" by Mark Doty

Rachel Draper
III.3: Woman avoiding truth in beautiful flat

Charles Drew
1930: I Would Not Have You Wake, as Yet

John Drexel
IX.2: Reassurance; Astrologies

Tom Driberg
Later a distinguished if maverick Labour politician, but at Oxford an ambitious poet. Coaxing Edith Sitwell into coming to speak earned Driberg a considerable reputation among his fellows: his poetry impressed them less, and John Betjeman parodied it mercilessly.
1926, as Thomas Driberg: London Square
1927, as Thomas Driberg: Cottage Squalor; Transvaluation of All Values; Lonely Scholar; Panorama in Lilliput

Christopher Driver
1955: Paul to the Romans

C. J. Druce
1917: The Meeting

Eugene Dubnov
VI.2: Face in the Darkness [translated from the Russian by Peter Porter and the author]

Ian Dudley
II.3: Apple Picking
III.2: Harvest Home; Wappenshaw; Nylon; Tattoo
IV.3: Decade

Esther Lilian Duff
1915: A Kalendar; Black Oxen; Lads' Love and Lavender
1916: The Sea; God's Fool

Carol Ann Duffy
IV.2: Confession; Eley's Bullet

John Dunlop
1936, as J. D. Dunlop: Early Dawn; London Winter; Ten Lines; Death
1937: Teknik; Nory

Walter Dunlop
1914: Reasonableness

Antony Dunn
IX.1: Judith with the Head of Holofernes
X.1: Bournemouth; Low Tide; Narnia

Douglas Dunn
II.2: Interview by Bernard O'Donoghue

Seán Dunne
III.3: The Abdication; Gaeltacht

Denzil Dunnett
1937: Hospital Morning; An Invitation

Paul Durcan
IV.1: Interview by Christiania Whitehead; John Field Visits His Seventy-Eight-Year-Old Widowed Mother; Family Planning Clinic, Easter Sunday Morning

Geoffrey Dutton (OCTCP)
Australian poet and campaigner for liberal arts; raised on a sheep-station; briefly associated with "Angry Penguins", the arch-modernist journal hoaxed by the spoof poet "Ern Malley".
1948: A Girl on Sunday; Dust in Oxford; Elements of the Academic Scene
1949: Alpenblumen; The Dead: A French Cemetery

Peter Dwyer
1936: Street Scene; Of Beauty

Copyright Oxford Poetry 2000. Pictured above: Sketch of W. H. Auden as a teacher at the Downs School, c. 1933