review copy, preface by Herbert Read


Sidney Keyes (1922-43)
Studied history at Queen's College, Oxford. Edited 8 Oxford Poets with Michael Meyer 1941. Joined army April 1942, trained at Dunbar. Killed in action in Tunisia April 1943. Posthumous collection The Cruel Solstice (1943). Collected Poems edited by Michael Meyer 1945, issued in paperback in 1988, and recently re-edited by Carcanet.