Poem of the Month Club
Publisher: Poem-of-the-Month Club
Published: 1970
Place of publication: London; Bourton, Dorset
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: English poetry; Broadsides
Notes: Title from portfolio.

Comprises 48 broadsides (39 x 29 cm.)--originally issued as "poem of the month" 1970-1974 and 1977, each signed by the poet, in publisher's half-calf portfolio.

Includes poems by W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin, Stevie Smith, C. Day Lewis, Roy Fuller, Robert Graves, Stephen Spender, George Barker, Seamus Heaney, John Betjeman and 38 others.

Issued in an edition of 1000 copies.
Table of contents: title: Folio 1. Francesca in Winter / Stevie Smith; title: Going my way? / C. Day Lewis; title: The explosion / Philip Larkin; title: To an unknown reader / Roy Fuller; title: Art student / Stephen Spender; title: Advice from a mother / Robert Graves; title: At Dunkeswell Abbey / Anthony Thwaite; title: Annotations of Giant's Town / John Fuller; title: Hurt / Elizabeth Jennings; title: What is mercy and a voice / George Barker; title: Midnights / Norman MacCaig; title: Epigrams by Martial / Peter Porter. Folio 2. Natural linguistics (for Peter Salus) / W.H. Auden; title: Night / Douglas Dunn; title: In the Basilica of the Annunciation / D.J. Enright; title: Photograph / John Lehmann; title: Transformation scene / Alan Brownjohn; title: Last days at Teddington / Thom Gunn; title: Presence / Glyn Hughes; title: A Wembley lad ; The Crem / John Betjeman; title: Land / Seamus Heaney; title: A Calcutta grandmother / Alan Ross; title: Anniversary ; Vigil / Ian Hamilton; title: Venus / Gavin Ewart. Folio 3. Cherry blossom / Hugo Williams; title: John Berryman, 1914-1972 / Ruthven Todd; title: Notes by the provincial governor / Philip Oakes; title: The man who built his city in snow (in memoriam Wallace Stephens 1879-1955) / by Derek Mahon; title: Doomsday (suggested by parts of the O.E. poem Christ) / Harold Massingham; title: The eminent professors and the nature of poetry as enacted out by members of the poetry seminar one rainy evening / Brian Patten; title: The legacy / A. Alvarez; title: Small secrets : for Patrick Collins / John Montague; title: Spanish balcony / Patricia Beer; title: Three poems written in Ireland, August 1972 : To friends in Sligo ; Clonalis ; Culleenamore / Kathleen Raine; title: The wooing of Becfola (after the Irish) / Austin Clarke; title: Wish you were here / Vernon Scannell. Folio 4. The ancestral face / Neil Rhodes; title: Wasted ; Kipling at Batemans / Kingsley Amis; title: From an Australian country sequence / Geoffrey Lehmann; title: The first folio / Geoffrey Grigson; title: A reflection on Auden / Julian Symons; title: The speckled bush / Molly Holden; title: Hard of hearing / Norman Nicholson; title: Orpheus / Donald Davie; title: Lunchtime / Dannie Abse; title: Casualty ward / Robert Conquest; title: In focus / Fleur Adcock; title: The marriage of Figaro / James Reeves.