THE HALLAMSHIRE & OSGOLDCROSS POETRY EXPRESS


|| Headland 1970-1980 || Headland Magazine || Promontory || New Hope International || Gerald England ||


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.



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