The Hallamshire & Osgoldcross Poetry Express was edited by Gerald England and published by Headland
H.O.P.E Vol.1, #1. January 1972
Distributed to subscribers of Headland (the magazine now edited by William Oxley), members
of The British Amateur Press Association and The Yorkshire Poets Association.
- Article: Poetry & Payments by Gerald England — an exposé of the activities of vanity presses.
This article first appeared in Headland #3.
- Letters from Edna Bartholomew and Michael J. Stayt, reprinted from Headland #4,
in defence of vanity publishing.
- Article: Poetry & Payments: Further Thoughts by Gerald England expanding on the theme.
- Reviews of recent publications.
- Poems by Gerald England and Cecily Lambert, stemming from a visit to Keats' House.
H.O.P.E Vol.1, #2. July 1972
- Poem in French by C.C. Hebron and an English translation by the author.
- Letters from Andrew Darlington & Keith Armstrong
on the theme of vanity publishing.
- Article: Poetry & Payments: Further Thoughts by Gerald England expanding on the theme.
- Poems by Jane Kieffer and Michelle Loi in French with English translations by Henny Kleiner.
- An obituary for Marguerite Edmonds by Brian Louis Pearce.
- Two poems by Marguerite Edmonds in English with French translations by C.C. Hebron.
- Poem by Gerald England about his Renault 4.
- Reviews of recent publications.
H.O.P.E Vol.1, #3. November 1972
Distributed to subscribers of The Village Review and Roots.
- Article: Financing a Little Magazine by Howard Sergeant.
- Article: The Arts Council and Poetry Magazines by Norman Hidden.
- Article: Publicity and the Little Magazine by Gerald England.
- Poem by Stewart Brown.
- Reviews of recent publications.
H.O.P.E Vol.1, #4. May 1973
Distributed to subscribers of Platform (Hants), Platform (Yorks), members of
Poets Vigilantes and The British Amateur Press Association.
- Article: The Life of Poetry by Gerald England — a review of the magazines
Littack and Roots.
- Poems by Steve Sneyd.
- Reviews of recent publications.
H.O.P.E Vol.1, #5. August 1973
Distributed to members of
The International Poetry Society.
- Article: The Alternative Press in Nineteenth-Century Yorkshire by Ben T. Dyson.
- Poems by Paul A. Lester and S.L. Henderson Smith.
- Reviews of recent publications.
H.O.P.E Vol.1, #6. January 1974
Distributed to subscribers of
Pink Peace, Overspill, Weyfarers and Good Elf.
- Article: The Responsibility of Communication by Vivienne Finch.
- Reviews of recent publications.
H.O.P.E Vol.2, #7. May 1974
- Poems by Andrea Moorhead, Joan Mary Firth and A.L. Hendricks.
- Review of Philip Ward's "A House on Fire" (Oleander Press) by Colin Simms.
- Reviews of recent publications.
H.O.P.E Vol.2, #8. January 1975
- Article: Cesare Pavese: Poet from the Hill Farm by James Parkhill-Rathbone.
- Poems by B.C. Leale and Marek Urbanowicz.
- Reviews of recent publications.
H.O.P.E Vol.3, #9. September 1975
- An obituary for Cecily Lambert by Gerald England.
- Poems by Jonathan Carroll and Cecily Lambert.
- Poems Englished by Frederic Vanson after Turgenev.
- Reviews of recent publications
H.O.P.E Vol.3, #10. Summer 1977
- An obituary for Margaret Perkins by S.L. Henderson Smith.
- Two Poems by Margaret Perkins.
- Reviews of recent publications.
- Poems by Eleanor Makepeace, Olga Benjamin and Steve Sneyd.