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March 1942

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

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Alan Downer
Charles Norman
Jean Rivier
Allen Curnow
David Daiches

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Table of Contents

St.-John Perse
- Exil
Stephen Spender
- The Fates

Two Poems

A. M. Klein
- Upon the Heavenly Scarp
- Sennet from Gheel

Roy Fuller
- The Bay

Sonnets

Winfield Townley Scott

Ruth Lechlitner
- At the Road's Turn

Three Poems

Allen Curnow

Martha Ellis
- Watching in a Sickroom
David Daiches
- Remembering a Farm in East Lothian, Scotland

Archibald MacLeish
- A Note on Alexis Saint Léger Léger

Reviews

Rolfe Humphries
- Salvation from Sand in Salt
Don Stanford
- An Unusual First Book
Marian Castleman
- The New Zealand Group
Weldon Kees
- Sixteen Hundred Poems

Correspondence

Charles Norman
- The Pacific Is Narrower
Alan S. Downer
- A Point of Intention

Contributors
- - St.-John Perse
  - Stephen Spender
  - A. M. Klein
  - Roy Fuller
  - Winfield Townley Scott
  - Ruth Lechlitner
- - Allen Curnow
  - Martha Ellis
  - David Daiches
  - Archibald MacLeish
  - Rolfe Humphries
  - Don Stanford
- - Marian Castleman
  - Weldon Kees
  - Charles Norman
  - Alan S. Downer