Published by Blackwell's 56pp
edited by J. B. Donne, Donald Watt
with Foreword

"The editors believe these poems to be able to stand by themselves without the protective label 'Oxford'..."

Contents

Paul Almond: Beach;

Norman Beswick: Eve; Rain;

S. R. Broadbent: On A Crucifixion By Durer;

J. B. Donne: Foreword; Lines for a Future Generation of Worms; The Return of the Unicorn II, III, IV;

Richard Freeborn: "Under the bitter arches..."; Incident; For Javoricko in Moravia;

R. G. Furnival: Blues;

Peter Gammond: Things That Were Right All Three; I Got No Alms; Of A Day Past;

W. J. Harvey: De Natura Chameleonis; The Green Garden;

Elizabeth Jennings: Diana;

Derek Jewell: Summer's Meeting; Vice Versa;

Christopher Middleton: Prophylaxis against Rhetoric; The Gold Fish; December Sunday Morning Laundry;

G. B. Payman: The Song of the Grey Heart;

James Price, as J. B. Price: No Title ("There are soldiers on the sea's edge");

Michell Raper: Atlantis; The sleep of children in a troubled time;

J. M. Russell: Parable of the Fall; Sonnet; The Single Nature of the Beast;

Basil Saunders: Eheu Fugaces;

Martin Seymour-Smith: Imagined Child; Winter for William; Men of the Island;

Lois Stockley: Palinode;

Donald Watt: Foreword; Subtraction; Incantation (ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE); Possibilities;

Peter Weitzman: On Re-reading Alice; In Praise of an Old Bachelor; On a Lithograph of John Minton;

Lotte Zurndorfer: Goodbye (to M. U.); Prayer for a Child;