Published by Magdalen College 16pp
edited by Mark Wormald(1), Robin Leanse
no preface

The first of what was planned to be a fortnightly magazine relaunch of Oxford Poetry, cheaply but imaginatively produced. There were drawings by John Symes, Jane Burdett and Rupert Legge, and the cover is a photograph of a classical sculpture (male and female). The editorial consists of a sequence of definitions of "poetry", such as: "Poetry is a rickety bridge between isolated irrational subjectives." The whole thing sold for one and sixpence, less than a third of the cost of Oxford Poetry in 1960. Though the enterprise had not long to live, it was the forerunner of the present version, also published at Magdalen College.

Contents

Alan Evison: A Poem ("Only by the coupling of movement");

Paul Nathanson: To Helen II; Montmartre-Saturday 1969; Early Morning, Early Evening;

Paul Carter: The Petal Falls;

Robin Leanse: "I felt the clouds obscure the sun";

John Symons: Parabola; Snow; Stone on Stone; Recount; Bricks and Water; Pebbles; New Bracken;

Anthony Gash: "Le songe est savoir-an answer we ask"; "More like Humpty Dumpty than Osiris"; "'No,' you're saying, 'sometimes I want to cry'"; Jealous Friend Blues;