The Robert Graves Review
THE ONLINE JOURNAL OF THE ROBERT GRAVES SOCIETY
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