Includes various works from war poets

Review from Spectator newspaper:
A NEW literary periodical deserves a welcome, especially when of such excellent quality as is the first number of Orion, a new review, edited by Rosamund Lehmann and C. Day Lewis, which is to appear at unspecified intervals. The editors declare that their aim is " to publish good writing, creative and critical, in prose and verse," and in their first number they have made a good catholic selection, in- cluding an excellent article on the painter Courbet, by John Russell, and an entertaining dialogue between I. Compton-Burnett, the novelist, and M. Jourdain on conversation in novels. One of the most interesting items is an autobiographical fragment by Leonard Woolf on his experiences in India about the year 19oo. There are also poems by Walter de !a Mare, C. Day Lewis, Edith Sitwell and Edwin Muir. If the standard of the first number is maintained, Orion will be a valuable new literary periodical.

Editor's Foreward: "Orion aims to publish good writing, creative and critical, in prose and verse. It is attached to no group or movement. If it has a bias, it is towards the writen and away from the improvised, towards the imaginative and away from reportage. Orion will publish experimental work, if the particular experiment seems to the editors a sucessful one; it is equally open to traditional work, provided the work has character..."'

Walter de la Mare, Franz Kafka, Leonard Woolf, C. M. Bowra, I. Compton Burnett and M. Jourdain, Edwin Muir, William Plomer, Stephen Spender, John Piper, C. Day Lewis, Margiad Evans, Andrew Young, Walter Allen, John Russell, John Lehmann, Mary Macrae, Henry Reed Edith Sitwell, Frank O'Connor, Rose Macaulay