New Verse

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Ed. by Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths College, University of London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Newman University), Louise McDonald (Newman University)

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Date of occurrence 1933-01-1939-05

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New Verse (1933-39) was a London-based bi-monthly poetry magazine notable for publishing works by the emerging younger poets of the time, and for airing the opinions of its cantankerous editor, the Cornish writer Geoffrey Grigson (1905-85). It was a “little magazine” both in its circulation of about one thousand and in its dimensions: a pamphlet-sized production of twenty stapled pages on cheap paper, competitively priced at sixpence. New Verse initially associated itself with the “Auden group” of young poets who had recently been gathered in Michael Roberts’s anthology New Signatures (1932). Early issues featured poems and reviews by Stephen Spender, C. Day Lewis and Louis Mac…

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Citation: Baldick, Chris. "New Verse". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 March 2021 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19622, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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