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Roderick McAdams
1949: Channel in Summer
George MacBeth
1953: Rhubarb; Thoughts on Choosing
1954: On Reading 'The Concept of Mind'; Principia Amoris; Principia Sensus; Advice to a Peeping Tom
1955: Death in the Afternoon; The Echoing Cave
Cathal McCabe
IV.2: Lucia [a version of James Joyce's letters]
Thomas McCarthy
III.3: The Standing Trains
Peter McDonald (editor I.3, II.1, II.2)
'Triumphs', published here, won the Newdigate Prize for 1983.
I.1: Trust; Glass Houses
I.2: Triumphs (1. The triumph of love; 2. The triumph of chastity; 3. The triumph of fame; 4. The triumph of death; 5. The triumph of time)
I.3: Interview of Stephen Spender
III.1: The dog
III.3: Far away
IV.1: Interview of Jon Stallworthy
IV.3: Some Figures
Rónán McDonald
IX.2: Powder and Paint: a review of "Gunpowder" by Bernard O'Donoghue and "My Alexandria" by Mark Doty
Franklin McDuffee
1924: Song; This Hour
Maeve McGuckian
IV.1, as Medbh McGuckian: Anna's Lane; Displaced to the Blue; Garbo at the Gaumont; Gigot Sleeves
VIII.2, as Medbh McGuckian: A Hinge into Something Larger: an Interview by Helen Kidd
Patrick McGuinness
VIII.3: Yakkity Yak: a review of "Poets Talking" by Clive Wilmer
Mairi MacInnes
1948: A Death
Jamie McKendrick
IV.3: Living in Sin; Rite de Passage
V.2: Under the Volcano
VI.1: Eroding Borders: 'The Sirocco Room' by Jamie McKendrick, reviewed by Denis Flannery
VI.3: He drinks precious wine with flies in [after Fransisco de Quevedo]; Sky Nails; Interloper
VII.1: Datchie Sesames: a review of "The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry", ed. Douglas Dunn; "Collected Poems", by Iain Crichton Smith; and "Sharawaggi" by Robert Crawford and W. N. Herbert.
VIII.2: In from the Brink: an Interview by Hermione Graham; Survival
VIII.3: Judge's report on the Eugenio Montale Translation Competition
X.1: The Parrot House [after Rainer Maria Rilke]
Hugh McMillan
VIII.2: The Fire and Flowers; Presences
Gordon McMullan
V.3: Options for the Nineties: a review of "Tale of the Mayor's Son", by Glyn Maxwell; Look a Rainbow; Threat
Louis MacNeice (editor 1929) (OCEL) (OCTCP)
Poet, translator, critic and radio playwright. Preciously, he supplied dates of composition for his own contributions to OP 1929.
1927: (greek title); Harvest Thanksgiving; This Tournament
1928: Reading by Candle-Light; Glass Falling; Happy Families; Impermanent Creativeness
1929: Spring Sunshine (April 1929); Address from my death-bed to Dr. Bruno, the Concrete Universal (May 1929); Cradle Song (November 1928); Laburnum (May 1929)
1930: Utopia; Hinges Kill Themselves; Threnody
XI.1: Blacklegs: a play [1939]
XI.1: The Hippolytus of Euripides [part of a 1939 verse translation]
XI.1: Introduction by Jon Stallworthy to "Blacklegs" by Louis MacNeice; "It lies obscure in layers of dark": Louis MacNeice's buried translations of Greek tragedy [article by Graham Nelson]
Christine McNeill
VI.3: Viennese Anatomy
VII.1: Viennese Anatomy [reprinted as joint winner of the Second Richard Ellmann Prize]
VII.3: Strangers in the Night; Travelling Out
VII.3: Arrivals: a review by Sandie Byrne of "The Country at my Shoulder" by Moniza Alvi and "Kissing the Night" by Christine McNeill
X.2: The Connoisseur
Ted McNulty
VI.1: Peacock
VII.3: Reading Solzhenitsyn; Kind of a Man
Kathleen McPhilemy
V.2: Accounts
Joyelle McSweeney
X.1: Orange
X.2: Paul Muldoon in medias res: a review of "Hay" by Paul Muldoon
Robert Macfarlane (editor X.2)
X.1: Qualities of Light: a review of "The Home Front" by N. S. Thompson
X.2: Short review of Adam Zagajewski, "Mysticism for Beginners"
Brian Mackey
VIII.2: North, Then South
Patrick Mackie
VIII.3: A Bedroom Window; A Country Road
Eileen Mackinley
1937: Midas
E. A. Mackintosh
Author of two books of verse, one posthumous: killed in action Fontaine, 21 November 1917.
1914: The Lost Land; Angus's Song
Peter Mackridge
III.3: Judge's report on the Constantine Cavafy Translation Competition
Joseph Gordon Macleod
1924: Spring
1925, as James Gordon Macleod: Elegy on a Bank Clerk drowned in the Sea; Hugin's Song; Maud Answered
Roy Macnab (editor 1946:No 1, 1946:No 2, 1947)
South African poet.
1946:No 1: Blind Kings; The Eagle, the Man and the Weathercock
1946:No 2: Witwatersrand
1947: Blind Kings; The Lost Minister (In Memory of Lord Aberdeen)
Richard Major
III.3: Fractures; Worry bead; Snow woman
V.1: Nocturne
Charles Malam
1931: The Drums of Autumn; May; Summer Evening; We shall go Armoured then; Old Ocean Sleeps
Stéphane Mallarmé (OCEL)
Modern French poet (1842-98).
1917: L'Après-Midi d'un Faune [translated Aldous Huxley]
John Mallet
1953: Men of Bone
1954: Daedalus
T. Marriner
1936: Olympia
1937: Poem ("At penultimate hour, introduction to twoness..."); Favonius' Ode; Poem ("High lie the fields of Heaven: where")
Arthur Marshall
1930: The Immediate Sun Moved Finger to the White
Peter Marshall
IX.2: Dowser; Tinnitus; Pythonesque; The Café Where the Angels Are; Threaded Upon A Lace
Adrian Marston
1949: Lagos: 1450; "See Poat the tobacconist airing his morning hymn"
Philip Martin
1936: Prologue to a Drama; Sonnet
A. R. Martley
1923: Magic
Pat Marum
III.3: The Egyptian Exhibition: Manchester
V.1: Getting Through
VI.1: The Allotment
"John Maskell"
1949: The Dark Pond
David Mason
X.2: Janus: A Birthday Poem; Two Visitations
Gordon Mason
VI.1: Embryo at Five Weeks
IX.1: The Usual Inventory
S. A. Mason
1937: After the Revolution; Love Song of a Lonely Man; Poem ("When he was young she took him with her beauty")
Tim Masters
IX.1: Learners; Pushkar
Dorothea Matthews
1930: Zero Hour; Epigrams
D. S. Maw
1923: On a Minuet of Haydn
1924: In Dismal Winter; My Room-the Desk and Chair
Glyn Maxwell
III.1: Girl On Ship Says; The Wreck Risen; Hello
III.2: House Cosy in November; Confession By River
IV.2: Poem Of The Births
IV.3: The New Ages; Two Old Ones Did It; Away
V.3: Options for the Nineties: a review by Gordon McMullan of "Tale of the Mayor's Son", by Glyn Maxwell
IX.1: Space-Age Bachelor-Pad Music: a review by Paddy Bullard of "The Ghost Orchid" by Michael Longley and "Rest for the Wicked" by Glyn Maxwell
John Maxwell
1936: Poem ("Love him as nearly as you can"); The Song of the Silver Princess; On a Photograph
1937: After the Play; The Actress
Derwent May (editor 1952)
1952: A Love Letter; Gambler; Christmas Poem; Lips in the Kiss Turn...
Paul May
VI.3: Leaving Joppa
Gordon Meade
VI.3: Sandeel
Jean de Menasse
1923: Quand je t'aime; Muettes; Hymn to God the Father
James Merrill
VIII.3: Untitled article by Steve Burt on the poetry of James Merrill
Michael Meyer
Edited the posthumous Collected Poems (1947) of his friend Sidney Keyes, and published two of the resulting newly discovered poems in OP 1946:No 2.
1942-1943: Necrophiles; Sonnet; Two Poems (For B. H., Killed in Action)
1946:No 1: The Lost Leader
1947: Christ Church Meadows at Martinmas
E. H. W. Meyerstein
Worked in the 1920s at the Department of MSS of the British Museum, and considered himself a man of letters thereafter. "Oxford", which describes a sleepless night as the fire dies down, was written in New Buildings I.4, Magdalen College, where Meyerstein lived for his whole undergraduate career. Friend of Wilfred Rowland Childe.
1910-1913: The Familiar; Oxford; Meditation
1916: The Girl
1917: The Finger (to R. T.); London
1918: The Incantation
Christine Michael
III.3: Heart Failing
James Michie (editor 1949)
See Kingsley Amis's "Memoirs" for an account of Michie's early talent and subsequent decline; but see his classical translations first.
1949: Foreword; "King Midas had a golden finger"; "Eye, dodging in your green Element"; "Cherish your girls and keep your women gentle"
Christopher Middleton (OCTCP)
Experimental poet; translator of German verse, notably that of Paul Celan.
1950: Prophylaxis against Rhetoric; The Gold Fish; December Sunday Morning Laundry
1951: Metropolitan Oratory; Ex-PW's at Munsterlager 1948; The Aviary; A Man Hanged; Park
E. G. Midgley
1949: Islands
Chris Miller
VI.3: The Voice, Which Spoke Again [La Voix, Qui a Repris, by Yves Bonnefoy; winning entry in the Translation Competition]
Adrian Mitchell (editor 1955)
1953: Franz Kafka; The Sentence
1954: The Child; One Death; The Fox; Buddy Bolden
1955: A Bird in the Head; The Death of Crusoe
Daibhidh Mitchell
1955: Prayer; The Proposal; Apologie
1956: Song "For her that has my hert"; Song "Saft as bluidshed, bane-haird"
Julian Mitchell
1960: O Where You Go; Dead Clown; The Briefing; As Long As
Naomi Mitchison (OCEL)
Novelist and feminist writer; sister of J. B. S. Haldane.
1915, as Naomi M. Haldane: Awakening of the Bacchæ
1916, as N. M. Mitchison: Pax Romana
Una Monk
1937: Already Corn
Patrick Monkhouse (editor 1925)
1925: By Way of Preface; Midland Landscape; Temperamental Incompatibility
1926: Blind Man's Bluff; Proud Sunset
Eugenio Montale
VIII.3: "I wanted to be rough and essential" [translation by David Brancaleone; winning entry in the Translation Competition]
Charles Montgomery
V.1: Edith
Mark Moore
1970:No 2: Words Resenting the Use; In My Hands
Miles David Moore
X.1: Niagara; The Bears of Paris
Dom Moraes
1957: Moz; At Seven o'Clock; The Pilgrims; Glitter of Pebbles
1959: Autobiography; Card Game; French Lesson
1960: Another Summer; From The Horse's Mouth
Evan Morgan
1917: In Olden Days (An Allegory); A Serenade
David Morley
VII.3: "Hawk Roosting": Rewrite; Dinner in the Iapetus Ocean
David Morris
1946:No 1: Poem "I'll catch the careless stranger"; The Princess
F. St V. Morris
Served in the 3rd Batt. Sherwood Foresters and the Royal Flying Corps, and died of his wounds on 29 April 1917: the title of his contribution is literal.
1917: Last Poem
Blake Morrison
VII.3: Candid Narrative: an Interview by Tim Kendall
Moschus
1918: Fragment from the "Lament for Bion" [translated Reginald Harris]
G. A. Mostyn
1919: Les Misérables
Andrew Motion
I.1: Unsigned review of his book 'Secret Narratives'
IV.2: Interview by Mark Wormald(2); One Who Disappeared
A. S. Mott
Sir Adrian Mott, bart.; publisher of tortoise-like deliberation; from 1922 partner, with Basil Blackwell, in the firm Blackwell & Mott.
1919: Umbra
K. Mounsey
1919: To a Little House in Oxford
J. S. Muirhead
1910-1913: Ganymede
Paul Muldoon
III.1: Interview by Claire Wills, Nicholas Jenkins and John Lanchester; Something Else
VII.2: The Poetry of Architecture: a review by Tim Kendall of "Shining Brow" by Paul Muldoon
X.2: Paul Muldoon in medias res: a review by Joyelle McSweeney of "Hay" by Paul Muldoon
Paul Munden
III.3: Filling In Time
V.2: The Practice Room
VII.1: Rain
Katharine Munro
1923: Speech of Nuns, I; Speech of Nuns, II
Richard Murphy
I.3: Canterbury Cathedral; Chalet
Agnes Murray
1914: To -; Winter
1915, as Agnes E. Murray: Domino Meo
1916: October
Basil Murray
1922: The Blackbird
Gilbert Murray (OCEL)
Professor of Greek and classical translator; campaigner for women's rights and the League of Nations. His are the first words published by OP: "Oxford is an evil seed-ground for poetry."
1910-1913: Introduction
Nicholas Murray
X.2: Laurel
Antony Mylonás
IX.2: A Night Out on Thasos
Copyright Oxford Poetry 2000. Pictured above: Sketch of W. H. Auden as a teacher at the Downs School, c. 1933