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January 1937

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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Michael Roberts
Elsa Gidlow
Morton Zabel
W. Auden
George Barker

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1937

Table of Contents

Two Poems

W. H. Auden
- Journey to Iceland
- Poem ("O who can ever praise enough...") (The Price)

Dylan Thomas
- We Lying by Seasand
Stephen Spender
- Speech: By the Brother of Pietzruch, a Communist Polish Jew Murdered by Nazis in January, 1933
Graham Hough
- Heliograph

Two Poems

Ronald Bottrall
- Lost Heaven
- Mating Answer

William Empson
- Bacchus IV
T. W. Eason
- Childhood

Conditions of Men

Michael Roberts

George Barker
- Sequence
Edwin Muir
- Poem
Lilian Bowes Lyon
- The Glittering North

Birds

R. E. Warner

Richard Church
- The Inept
Clifford Dyment
- Straight or Curly?
Ll. Wyn Griffith
- Valediction
Roger Roughton
- Sliding Scale

Two Poems

James Reeves
- A Matter of Discipline
- Christmas

Charles Madge
- Delusions
Michael Roberts
- Aspects of English Poetry: 1932-1937
William Empson
- A London Letter

Reviews

W. H. Auden
- A Novelist's Poems
Cecil Day-Lewis
- Paging Mankind
William Empson
- Foundations of Despair

Michael Roberts

Correspondence

William Empson
- Correspondence

Contributors
- - W. H. Auden
  - Dylan Thomas
  - Stephen Spender
  - Graham Hough
  - Ronald Bottrall
  - William Empson
  - T. W. Eason
- - Michael Roberts
  - George Barker
  - Edwin Muir
  - Lilian Bowes Lyon
  - R. E. Warner
  - Richard Church
  - Clifford Dyment
- - Ll. Wyn Griffith
  - Roger Roughton
  - James Reeves
  - Charles Madge
  - Cecil Day-Lewis