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September 1955

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

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Vernon Watkins
Roy Campbell
Dannie Abse
Nelson Bentley
Allen Curnow

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1955

Table of Contents

Six Poems

Reed Whittemore

Two Poems

Dannie Abse
- Anniversary
- Poem and Message

James E. Schevill
- The Old Blind Man in Spring
Marcia Lee Masters
- The Memory
Don Gordon
- The Middle Passage
Stanley Moss
- A Spanish Landscape
Nelson Bentley
- The Eye

Three Poems

W. R. Johnson

Roger Hecht
- Summer's End
Harold Witt
- Beasts

Three Poems

William Pillin

Paul Goodman
- Wellfleet Harbor
Phyllis Haring
- Oman the Diver

Two Poems

Allen Curnow
- To Forget Self and All
- He Cracked a Word

Two Poems

Ned O'Gorman
- A Poem about a Prince
- The Rose and the Body of the Rose

Three Poems

James Wright

Two Views of Cummings

John Logan
- Six of One and Six Hundred of the Other
Vernon Watkins
- E. E. Cummings: The World of "Un"

Reviews

John H. Meyer
- The Too Easily Lost
Roy Campbell
- The Poetry of Ewart Milne

Contributors
- - Reed Whittemore
  - Dannie Abse
  - James E. Schevill
  - Marcia Lee Masters
  - Don Gordon
  - Stanley Moss
  - Nelson Bentley
- - W. R. Johnson
  - Roger Hecht
  - Harold Witt
  - William Pillin
  - Paul Goodman
  - Phyllis Haring
  - Allen Curnow
- - Ned O'Gorman
  - James Wright
  - John Logan
  - Vernon Watkins
  - John H. Meyer
  - Roy Campbell