HISTORY OF THE JOURNALS OF THE ROBERT GRAVES SOCIETY

The Robert Graves Review is a continuation of Gravesiana: The Journal of the Robert Graves Society, which in turn superseded Focus on Robert Graves and His Contemporaries (1982-1996), originally named Focus on Robert Graves (1972-1982). Patrick Quinn, who had edited Focus on Robert Graves and His Contemporaries was one of the co-founders and first president of The Robert Graves Society and edited the first volume of Gravesiana. The name change to The Robert Graves Review was finalized at a video conference of the membership of the Society in December 2020. In September 2024, The Review completed its first volume containing four issues. For the first time in its history, with The Robert Graves Review the Society journal was available in both paper and in digital form. The Robert Graves Society supports open access (OA) and so the digital form of The Robert Graves Review is accessible free of charge or restrictions.

Gravesiana began life in June 1996. After Patrick Quinn left the editorship in Winter 1998, he was replaced by Ian Firla, who edited the journal until 1999. John Presley accepted the editorship after Ian but professional duties kept him from producing a single journal issue. He relinquished the position in 2003. The next issue of the journal appeared in Summer 2007, under the editorship of Patrick J. Villa, who produced the last hard copy issue of Gravesiana. The Society's journal would be available in digital form only until 2021.

The first digital issue appeared in 2010, edited by Dunstan Ward, who had recently retired as Society President. In 2014, Dunstan published his final issue, and Michael Joseph, became its editor–the last editor of Gravesiana, and the first editor of The Review.