WAR AND POETRY.
[To THE EDITOR or TEL " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I have been to-day hunting round some of the old bookshops in Oxford, and I found in one shop on a stall marked M. two very excellent and once well-known poetry magazines. They are Rhythm, published by Martin Seeker, and New Verses, in which John Drinkwater and Rupert Brooke published some of their well-known poems. Both of these no longer exist. Poetry and Drama is, I believe, dead too, and in fact I can only think of one magazine which thrives, and is of course excellent—viz., the Poetry Review. Your article last week on " Recent War Verse" is splendid, but it shows how much poetry is being written, and what a pity it is that magazines of the calibre of those I mention don't exist. It is one of the blessings coming out of the war that from the midst of its horrors poets are " finding themselves." Isn't it up to those who can to help them to find themselves more readily? Surely it is!—I am, Sir, &c.,
G. D'Aecaz BLACKMAN, C.F., late B.E.F.
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