The Robert Graves Review - Volume 2 Number 1 / 2025

EDITORIAL

Introduction

CRITICAL STUDIES

Robert Graves and Robert Frost: Poets of Terror and Trees
Devindra Kohli

The Fingers of MacDiarmid Contract in a Report to the Recording Angel
W. N. Herbert

Visualising the First World War: Notes on Poems by Robert Graves, Ted Hughes, Michael Longley and Philip Larkin
Mick Gowar

The Penny Fiddle Primer: Childhood, Opposition, and the Poetic Imagination
Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.

(In)visible Forces at Work: Robert Graves and the Ancient Historians in Crafting Female Characters in I, Claudius
Adriana Marinelli

Meeting the Muse in the Woods
Kirsten Norrie

Which Flowers to Choose? Robert Graves and the Dilemmas of Anthologising
Gregory Leadbetter

BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES

Robert Graves and the Music of the 1960s
Philip Ward

‘The Most Terrible of His War Poems’: Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and the Hidden Anxieties of Post-War Homoerotic Revelation
Richard A. Kaye

POETRY

Poems by Midge Goldberg, W. N. Herbert, Pippa Little, Jerl Surratt, Meredith Bergmann, Sean O’Brien, Dunstan Ward, Gregory Leadbetter, David M. Katz, Mike Alexander, and Rachel Hadas

Poets in This Issue

NOTES

Anthology/ies: selections by John Leonard, Judith Woolf, William Graves, Paul O’Prey, Anne Marsh Penton, Dunstan Ward, Adriana Marinelli, Michael Joseph

REVIEWS

‘(Re)Marking the Invisible in the Work of Robert Graves’: The Robert Graves Society Panel at the 2025 MLA Convention
Michael Joseph

Review of The Robert Graves Panel at the 2025 Conference of the Classical Association
Elena Theodorakopoulos

‘Robert Graves: Life, Poetry, Poems’: The First International Pop-up Seminar on Robert Graves
Adriana Marinelli

OBITUARIES

In Memoriam, Michael Longley
Michael Joseph

EDITORIAL

Editorial Note
Michael Joseph