Contains works by G.S. Fraser; Henry Treece; J.F. Hendry; Norman McCaig; Nicholas Moore; Tom Scott; Vernon Watkins; Robert Melville.

James Findlay Hendry (12 September 1912 – 17 December 1986) was a Scottish poet known also as an editor and writer. He was born in Glasgow, and read Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow. During World War II he served in the Royal Artillery and the Intelligence Corps. After the war he worked as a translator for international organisations, including the UN and the ILO. He later took a chair at Laurentian University. He died in Toronto.

Henry Treece (December 22, 1911 – June 10, 1966) was born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire, and graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1933. He went into teaching, first at Tynemouth School. In 1939 he married Mary Woodman and settled in Lincolnshire as a teacher at Barton upon Humber Grammar School (He has a house at "Bereton", now "Baysgarth" school named after him). Their son, Richard Treece, became a musician with Help Yourself and other rock bands. In World War II he served as an intelligence officer in the RAF and helped John Pudney edit Air Force Poetry.

The New Apocalyptics were a poetry grouping in the UK in the 1940s, taking their name from the anthology The New Apocalypse (1939), which was edited by J. F. Hendry (1912-1986) and Henry Treece. There followed the further anthologies The White Horseman (1941) and Crown and Sickle (1944). Others closely associated were the Scottish (as Hendry was) poets G. S. Fraser and Norman MacCaig. There was quite an overlap, in fact with the Scottish Renaissance group of writers, though not necessarily by publication in London.
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