5 JANUARY 1929, Page 29

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(Continued from page 21) In The Best Poems of 1928 (Cape, 6s.) Mr. Thomas Moult makes his " seventh yearly harvesting " of verse from periodicals in Great Britain and the U.S.A., and we -cordially agree with him when he claims that the fact of his being able to compile such a volume is retort enough to those critics who are so fond of announcing that contemporary poetry is " afflicted with poverty," or, as some of them say, dead. It is nothing of the sort. In this little book there is plenty of strong, healthy, imaginative work, and no one interested in the development of English lyric poetry but should be grateful for its rescue. • We note with interest that nine of the poems included originally appeared in these columns.

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