Grant, Damian

The twelfth of a total of sixteen poetry supplements to The Critical Quarterly issued between 1960 and 1975. Publisher's patterned card wrappers with lettering to front cover, designed by T. E. Burrill. Octavo. pp. 24. his supplement contains poems by Robert Lowell, Louis Simpson, Sylvia Plath, Peter Porter, Tony Connor and Thom Gunn. 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.