Cox, C. B.

The third of a total of sixteen poetry supplements to The Critical Quarterly issued between 1960 and 1975. Publisher's red patterned card wrappers with lettering to front cover, designed by T. E. Burrill. Octavo. pp. 24. This supplement contains poems by Philip Larkin ( 'An Arundel Tomb' and 'Ambulances' ), R.S. Thomas, Elizabeth Jennings, Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, Sylvia Plath, Graham Hough, D.J. Enright, Thomas Kinsella, Jon Satallworthy, Donald Davie, Charles Tomlinson, Edward Lucie-Smith, George MacBeth, John Wain, Christopher Levenson and Peter Porter. Critical Quarterly had been started in 1959 by Brian Cox who was then a young lecturer in the English Department at Hull University, with his former student friend A.E.Dyson, the pioneering campaigner for homosexual rights, who was at Bangor University. Cox ultimately moved to a Chair in Manchester where he conceived the idea of publishing 'Black Papers' on education, attacking the 'White Papers' in which government policy was published.