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Michael T. H. Sadler
1910-1913: Sic Transit...; Sloane Square-; Rain; Hyssop

Mary Jo Salter
III.2: The Rebirth of Venus
X.2: Sound Effects: Louis MacNeice, 1907-1963

Albert Samain
French poet of the fin-de-siècle (1828-1900), eminent in his day.
1917: My Soul is an Infanta [translated Elizabeth Rendall]

Ian Samson (editor VII.2, VII.3, VIII.1)
VI.2: Judgement and Mercy: a review of "Pierrot", by Harry Smart
VII.1: Honouring the Vertical Man: an Interview of Stephen Romer
VIII.1: Through Frosted Glass: an Interview of Peter Robinson

Alistair Sandford (editor 1936, 1937)
1936, as A. W. Sandford: Introduction; The Martyrs; We Dying; From "The Caliph"; Exhortation to Youth
1937: Introduction; Christmas

Ian Sansom
X.2: Occasionally, Sometimes, Never

David Santer
VI.2: Man in a Grey Suit

Carole Satyamurti
IV.2: Following; One Way Windows; Your Most Surprising Present

Basil Saunders
1950: Eheu Fugaces

Robert Saxton
IV.2: Mohicans
V.2: Thousand-Island Dressing
VI.1: The Rainy Season

Dorothy L. Sayers (editor 1917, 1918, 1919) (OCEL)
Detective novelist best known for the creation of Lord Peter Wimsey, but also Christian playwright and translator of Dante. In 1916-20 she was editorial assistant to Basil Blackwell, and having published a book of poems in his series already ("Op I") was a a natural choice of editor.
1915: Lay
1917, as D. L. Sayers: Fair Erembours (A Song of the Web. French, XII c.)
1918: Pygmalion
1919, as D. L. Sayers: For Phaon (With "That Eternitie Promised by Our Ever-Living Poet"); Sympathy; Vials Full of Odours

Christopher Scaife
Won the
Newdigate Prize 1923 for "London".
1922, as C. H. O. Scaife: Summer; Fond Lover; Afternoon
1923, as C. H. O. Scaife: The Seven Candlesticks

Amanda Schaffer
IX.1: Postcard, 1912; The Robin Moor, 1893

Sebastian Schloessingk
IX.2: Banter

Michael Schmidt
1970:No 2: Trojan Mule
VIII.2: New Horizons: a review by Peter Nohrnberg of "New Poetries", ed. Michael Schmidt

Reinhold Schneider
German poet.
1946:No 1: Translated by J. B. Leishman, two of 12 sonnets written in 1944: 1. To a Priest Whose Church Had Been Entirely Destroyed; 2. Sonnet "Only the men of prayer in these last hours"

John Schofield
1970:No 3: Communion; The Room; Lines Composed after reading an "Observer" Colour Supplement on Wordsworth

Eric Schroeder
1924: Condensation of an Opera
1925: My Love and I sat kissing by a Bank
1926: My Sister Playing
1927, as E. Schroeder: Myself; Evening of June

Grace Schulman
III.2: Julian Of Norwich

Adam Schwartzman
IX.1: Twenty-Six Rooms: a review by Jenni Nuttall of "The Good Life, The Dirty Life, and other stories" by Adam Schwartzman and "Liar, Jones" by Maggie Hannan

J. P. Scott
1931: Atlantic; Youth; Honour Rewarded
1932: A Foreigner looks at England

Kate Scott
XI.1: Mute on Light

Peter Dale Scott
1952: Garden; Elegy in a Spring Garden; On Listening to Old Gramophone Records with Miss Banting

Robert Scott
1923, as R. Scott: Moon Cobwebs
1925: Transcendentalism

Ronald McNair Scott
1925, as Ronald McN. Scott: To H. N. R.
1926: Depression; Induction to an Eclogue; The Renegade
1927, as R. McN. Scott: From 'Journey of the Spirit'

E. J. Scovell (OCTCP)
"The purest of women poets of our time" (Geoffrey Grigson); translator of Giovanni Pascoli.
1928: Angels Carved in the Church Roof
1929: The Division; To The Mother of the Sick Child

M. B. Scragg
1949: "Now that my hand is moving"; "The mild air contains me, a tower of flesh"

Peter Scupham
X.3: In Camera
XI.1: Kilvert's Winter: 1871

Richard Selig (editor 1955)
1954: Marriage Song; Song for a Tempest
1955: Boyhood of Theseus; The Phoenix; A Meditation in Lent

Adam Serkin
VI.1: Oath of Allegiance [translation, with Sergiu Celac, of poem by Iona Ieronim]

Ian L. Serraillier
Poet and writer of children's adventure stories, best known for "The Silver Sword".
1937: Starlings

John Sewell
VII.1: Review by Jane Griffiths of "Singing Underwater" by Susan Wicks and "The Imbolic Bride" by John Sewell

Martin Seymour-Smith (OCTCP)
Poet; at Oxford, poetry editor of "Isis"; later biographer of
Robert Graves. Also author of "How to Succeed in Poetry Without Really Reading or Writing".
1950: Imagined Child; Winter for William; Men of the Island
1951: Lancelot; Elegy; Green Wall My Grave; All Devils Fading; Dawn; Entrance to Hell

Deirdre Shanahan
II.3: The Illustrator

Michael Shanks
1949: The Preacher
1952: Gateway to a Maltese Villa

Jo Shapcott
X.2: An interview
X.2: Abishag (translation of "Abisag" by Rainer Maria Rilke)

Ruth Sharman
X.1: Short unsigned review

Roger Sharrock
1942-1943: Poem ("Delicious the Laburnum"); Extract from Primavera

Michael Sheldon
1936: Grass in the Streets; Evensong; Magdalen Cloisters
1937: Winter Landscape

Graham Shepard
1929: Poem; Queen Marjolaine; Lay for Parvenus; Poem

R. A. Shepherd
1910-1913: In Mary's Month; "Parvula Dorothea"; Over the Lake; Margaratę Abiturę; Sonnet

J. D. Shivers
VII.2: Public

John Short
1936: Carol; Six Ladder-Steps for Lent
1937: Landmark; Dialogue for Mummers

R. D. Shuttleworth
III.3: The Ledge

Charles Simic
IX.1: Smart Chickens, Rickety World: a review by John Nichols of "Frightening Toys" by Charles Simic

Helen Simpson
1917, as H. Simpson: "There are Quantities of Things..."
1918: The Head of the Table: Decoders W. R. N. S.; Aeroplane, June 6th

Phyllis Singleton
1929: Blue Shadows; Phantasy

Peter Sirr
III.3: The Nth Draft

Linwood Sleigh
1923: Camera Obscura

Harry Smart
III.3: Yesterday
IV.2: A dream of wisdom
V.2: The Ark Encounters Another Shipment [from Shoah]
VI.2: Judgement and Mercy: a review by Ian Samson of "Pierrot", by Harry Smart

Eric Earnshaw Smith
1915: Sisters; Godstow
1916, as E. E. Smith: The Town; "Le Dormeur du Val" (Arthur Rimbaud); "Le Mal" (Arthur Rimbaud)
1917, as E. E. Smith: The Voyage

G. B. Smith
Died of wounds as a Lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers, near Warlincourt, 3 December 1916. Close friend of
J. R. R. Tolkien, who served in the same regiment and later published his poems: see Humphrey Carpenter's biography. The Tolkien estate is now assisting the editing of G. B. Smith's collected verse.
1915: Songs on the Downs

H. Smith
1932: Commentary on Judas

Iain Crichton Smith
VII.1: Datchie Sesames: a review by Jamie McKendrick 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.

Ken Smith
II.2: Tube Talk; The Soldier's Tale

Naughton Smith
1955: The Women of Portland; Elegy in the West

Nick Smith
II.1: Uniforms; Nature Games

Robert Smith
V.2: Inside and Out: review of John Leonard, "Unlove"; Gerard Woodward, "The Unwriter & other poems"; Andrew Fox, "Darkness and Snowfall"

Roger Smith
1960: The Island; In Another Land

William Jay Smith (OCTCP)
American poet, educated at Oxford after war service as a US Navy officer; the only OP contributor to have been elected to the Vermont House of Representatives.
1948: The Wooing Lady; The Girl in Glass

Richard Smith-Bingham
VI.3: Mexico City: Independence Day

Royall Snow
1923: Samson in the Temple; Bruges by Night; A Parisian Evening
1924: The Adventurer

Gary Soto
III.1: The Party-Time Ashtray

Eric Southworth
IV.3: Judge's report on the Federico Garcia Lorca Translation Competition

W. M. Spackman
1928: Lines to be cut upon a Tortoise
1929: Epigrams
1930: Apostrophe

Bernard Spencer (editor 1930, 1931) (OCTCP)
Poet, emerging in the mid-1930s from the shadows of his more famous Oxford friends; British Council representative abroad; died in mysterious circumstances in Vienna, 1963.
1929: Festa
1930: Above, the Fingers of the Tree; Departure; Those Near and Dead
1931: After Love; Poem ("After the wheels and wings of this intense day"); Clouded, Still, Evening; Poem ("White factories lancing sky")
1932: Her hands waking on her lap; For seeing whole I had been too near my friends; Such height of corn

Lilian L. Spencer
1916: La Courtisane; The In-Coming Tide

Natasha Spender
XI.1: Introduction to "Instead of Death" by Stephen Spender

Stephen Spender (editor 1929, 1930) (OCEL) (OCTCP)
Poet, critic, editor and translator; at Oxford, secretary of the University English Club. Hand-printed a booklet of Auden's early poems, now a rare collector's item, as is his own first book of "Twenty Poems", a limited edition printed by Blackwell's in his final undergraduate year.
1928: Quixote on Time; Voyage
1929: Marston, dropping it in the grate, broke his pipe; Lying awake at night; Hearing from its cage; Acts thrust beyond the boundary of mere wishing
1930: Souvenir du Londres; The Swan; The Faces of Living Friends I see on Water; Now You've no Work, Like a Rich Man; Because I Love You So
I.3: Interview by Peter McDonald
XI.1: Chapter X of "Instead of Death" [1928 novel]
XI.1: Introduction by Natasha Spender to "Instead of Death" by Stephen Spender

Judy Spink (editor 1959)
1957: Introduction to Pain; Ophelia
1959: The Empress in her Garden; En Famille; The Approval

Jon Stallworthy
IV.1: Interview by Peter McDonald
VI.2: The Hollow Men: a review by David Pascoe of "Uncollected Poems", by Basil Bunting, ed. Richard Caddel, and "Collected Poems", by Henry Reed, ed. Jon Stallworthy
X.2: Quiet Among The Thunderers: a review by Jeremy Noel-Tod of "Rounding the Horn" by Jon Stallworthy
XI.1: Introduction to "Blacklegs" by Louis MacNeice

Andrew Stallybrass
1937: Winter Waiting

Margaret Stanley-Wrench
Won the
Newdigate Prize 1937 for "Man in the Moon".
1936, as M. Stanley-Wrench: Song ("There was a scholar as wise")
1937: The Shattered Path Leads Up

Julian Stannard
VIII.1: Taking the Waters
VIII.2: Biographia

Maura Stanton
III.1: Little-Known Birl of The Inner Eye (after the picture by Morris Graves)

Martin Starkie (editor 1947)

W. Force Stead
American poet then studying in Oxford, more usually publishing as William Force Stead. Later a clergyman, it was he who baptised T. S. Eliot into the Anglican Church.
1919: The Voice in the Night (Songs from a Lyrical Drama, "The Burden of Babylon")
1920: The Burden of Babylon
1922: The Magic Way; Oblivion; Snow-scene in Starlight

Anthony Steele
1922: Allegory; Audience; Odyssey ix; Prophet's At Home Day

George Steiner (OCEL)
Literary critic, educated at Paris, Oxford and Harvard. F is for Francis.
1952, as F. George Steiner: After Cannae; Nantucket Coast; Art pour Art
II.1: Interview by Bernard O'Donoghue

Anne Stevenson
I.2: Interview; Red Rock Fault, Two Years Later (for Frances Horovitz, 7th October 1983)

Quentin Stevenson
1954: The Confessional; Michaelangelo's 'Birth of Adam'
1955: No Voice Divine; The Need for Faith
1956: Black Madrigal; Medusa; Antinous

Desmond Stewart
1942-1943: Epode of Autumn; Wagnerian Poem

Sue Stewart
VI.3: Fair Weather; Feathers [from "Genesis"]

Lois Stockley
1950: Palinode

Martin Stokes
I.2: La Plaza de San Felipe Neri
II.1: Planning Phases
VI.3: The Mad Girl

John Strachey
1922: Man Asleep; The Forsaker

E. Margaret Strahan
1953: Mourne; Autumn

Douglas Street
1937: Willows

L. A. G. Strong (OCEL)
Poet and macabre novelist; through teaching at Oxford in the 1920s, a friend of Day Lewis's; arranged a schoolteaching job for him after graduation.
1916: Cor Poetę
1917: The Mad Man; The Bait-Digger's Son
1918: Rufus Prays; In the Garden
1919: At Punnet's Town; Dallington; Eena-Mena-Mina-Mo
1920: Frost; Vera Venvstas; A Baby; From the Greek; A Devon Rhyme; The Bird Man; Christopher Marlye

R. A. F. Studdert
1916: To a Lady

Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy
1915: Narcisse-Mallarméen; Chinoiserie: Samainesque

Sheila Sullivan
V.1: So Minor a Poet

James Sutherland
1924: Mot Quad, Oxford
1925, as James R. Sutherland: Chang takes the Road to Eternity; The New _Prelude_

E. Graham Sutton
1915: Epitaph

Gordon Swaine (editor 1946:No 1, 1946:No 2)
Unless there is a coincidence of names, author of the indispensable "Agricultural Zoology of Fiji" (HMSO, 1971).
1946:No 1: Valse Triste; In Memory of Mistress Katherine Ryche
1946:No 2: The Bombed Cemetery
1947: Turgeniev; In Memory of Mistress Katharine Ryche

Jenny Swann
X.1: Beatus Vir

Roberta Teale Swartz
1929: The Fisherman; The Tramp; Finale

Diana Syder
IX.1: Sediment

John Symons
1970:No 1: Parabola; Snow; Stone on Stone; Recount; Bricks and Water; Pebbles; New Bracken
1970:No 3: Rain after May Sun; Permanent Residence, If Different From The Above; Butterfly

George Szirtes
VIII.1: Calypso

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