Stephen Spender [1909–1995]

from Study for First Ode: Destruction and Resurrection

[TLS, 21 November 1942]

W.R. Rodgers [1909–1969]

from Epilogue [c 1950; Poems, Gallery Books, 1993]

132

135

Norman MacCaig [1910–1996]

You enter one by one [The Westminster Magazine, Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA, Autumn 1934] The rusty wind wrestles on the quay [Far Cry, Fortune Press, 1943] Answering the dry dust and the green-shaded lamp [Far Cry,

Routledge, 1943] The Golden Branch [The Inward Eye, Routledge, 1946]

Stone Pillow [1955; Collected Poems, Chatto & Windus, 1985]

Alan Rook [1910–1990]

Dunkirk Pier [Soldiers, This Solitude, Routledge, 1942]

136

141

Noël Welch [c 1911–2017] 142 The Red Shirt [c 1950; PN Review No. 161, 2005] Lazarus [Witness, Outposts Publications, 1963]

John Jarmain [1911–1944]

Prisoners of War [1943; The Voice of War: Poems of the Second

World War, Michael Joseph, 1995]

Henry Treece [1911–1966]

Poem [The New Apocalypse, Fortune Press, 1940] Death Mask [38 Poems, Fortune Press, 1940] Epilogue [The Haunted Garden, Faber and Faber, 1947] Song for an Ending [Artisan No. 2, 1952]

144

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