Published by Blackwell's viii+60pp
edited by A. W. Sandford with Alan Rook
with Introduction

"Oxford Poetry is dead. After four barren years this is a resurrection, perhaps even a renascence..." For two volumes the word "New" appeared on spine and title page, while the text was printed in a font owing more than a little to Times New Roman, Stanley Morison's radically modernist font for "The Times" (1932). Nothing had actually changed.

Contents

Kenneth Allott: The Albatross;

C. Balankura: Nirvana (from the Siamese of the same author);

J. E. Banbury: Lovers' Idyll; Record;

James Batley: Sea-Gull;

Norman Bradshaw, as N. Bradshaw: We have lusted;

S. B. Carter: On a Statue; Octave; 1934; War Memorial;

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

Peter Dwyer: Street Scene; Of Beauty;

Paul Engle: Poem I ("Let no longer"); Poem II ("Yet who am I");

Henry Gifford: XXIX ("In the transparent hour, after rain's ceasing"); XXXII ("Peace, -the sombre eddy, -a wavering weed");

David Graham: The Two Ships; A Nun; Men as Trees Walking;

Benson Herbert: Sensation on Stalling an Aeroplane;

P. J. F. Howarth: The Year's Harvest; Fortune;

T. Marriner: Olympia;

Philip Martin: Prologue to a Drama; Sonnet;

John Maxwell: Poem ("Love him as nearly as you can"); The Song of the Silver Princess; On a Photograph;

Michael Nathan: Ode to Opium; Prayers; A Man in Winter;

Rufus Noel-Buxton: Final Fugue; Night;

E. F. Oliver: Song ("I would not be withdrawn"); Lover of England;

Jayanta Padmanátha: Wind and Moon; Come back;

Antony Palmer, as J. A. St J. Palmer: Snowpeace; Snowthought; Poem ("Sometimes I am of midnight mood");

Margaret E. Rhodes: Haunted;

Alan Rook: Day, O My Day; Poem ("Have I brought Joy, to slay her at his feet?");

Alistair Sandford, as A. W. Sandford: Introduction; The Martyrs; We Dying; From "The Caliph"; Exhortation to Youth;

Michael Sheldon: Grass in the Streets; Evensong; Magdalen Cloisters;

John Short: Carol; Six Ladder-Steps for Lent;

Margaret Stanley-Wrench, as M. Stanley-Wrench: Song ("There was a scholar as wise");