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Seán Rafferty [1909–1993] The old stag crew before the light [1940s; Collected Poems, Carcanet, 1995] He counted up his ha’pence [1940s; Collected Poems, Carcanet, 1995] It was a folly of my grief [1940s; Collected Poems, Carcanet, 1995] You grow like a beanstalk [1940s; Collected Poems, Carcanet, 1995] The candles yawning and the fire gone out [1970s; Collected Poems, Carcanet, 1995] Randall Swingler [1909–1967] Lazarus or The Walking Dead: 1 [The God in the Cave, Fore Publications, 1950] John Pudney [1909–1977] Nessie Dunsmuir [1909–1999] xii from Gods with Stainless Ears [1951; Collected Poems, Carcanet, 2005] Envoi: Twelfth Night [Air Force Poetry, The Bodley Head, 1944] Poem [1946; Nessie Dunsmuir’s Ten Poems, Greville Press, 1988] Acorn, Mile, Miracle, Tree [1946; Nessie Dunsmuir’s Ten Poems, Greville Press, 1988] For a Winter Lover [1948; Nessie Dunsmuir’s Ten Poems, Greville Press, 1988] Malcolm Lowry [1909–1957] Success is like some horrible disaster [1945; Collected Poetry, British Columbia University Press, 1992] Kingfishers in British Columbia [1940s; Collected Poetry, British Columbia University Press, 1992] 124 128 129 129 131
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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] 144 145 xiii

Seán Rafferty [1909–1993]

The old stag crew before the light [1940s; Collected Poems,

Carcanet, 1995] He counted up his ha’pence [1940s; Collected Poems, Carcanet, 1995] It was a folly of my grief [1940s; Collected Poems, Carcanet, 1995]

You grow like a beanstalk [1940s; Collected Poems, Carcanet, 1995] The candles yawning and the fire gone out [1970s; Collected

Poems, Carcanet, 1995]

Randall Swingler [1909–1967]

Lazarus or The Walking Dead: 1 [The God in the Cave, Fore

Publications, 1950]

John Pudney [1909–1977]

Nessie Dunsmuir [1909–1999]

xii from Gods with Stainless Ears [1951; Collected Poems, Carcanet, 2005]

Envoi: Twelfth Night [Air Force Poetry, The Bodley Head, 1944]

Poem [1946; Nessie Dunsmuir’s Ten Poems, Greville Press, 1988] Acorn, Mile, Miracle, Tree [1946; Nessie Dunsmuir’s Ten Poems,

Greville Press, 1988] For a Winter Lover [1948; Nessie Dunsmuir’s Ten Poems, Greville

Press, 1988]

Malcolm Lowry [1909–1957]

Success is like some horrible disaster [1945; Collected Poetry,

British Columbia University Press, 1992] Kingfishers in British Columbia [1940s; Collected Poetry,

British Columbia University Press, 1992]

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128

129

129

131

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