Roy Fuller, 'Poem', p. 2

        "         , 'Death', p. 3

G. H. Charman, 'Poem', pp. 3 - 4

        "         , 'Sonnet', p. 4

Hugh Gordon Porteus, 'The Lost Race', p. 5

T. O. Robinson, 'Neurosis', p. 6

        "         , 'Now Threat of Action', pp. 6 - 7

        "         , 'Useless to Compare History', p. 8

        "         , 'The Mirror Makes Two Rooms', pp. 8 - 9

J. B. Allwood, 'Western', p. 9

George Woodcock, 'Insular Poem', p. 10

        "         , 'Barbizon', p. 10

        "         , 'The Announcer's Speech', p. 11

Harry Brown, 'Elegy on the Death of Yeats', p. 12

        "         , 'Gretchen and the Grave People', pp. 12 - 13

H. B. Mallalieu, 'The Philologist', p. 13

Celia Buckmaster, 'Friday', p. 14

        "         , 'Poem', p. 14

Nicholas Moore, 'The Innocent', p. 15

        "         , 'The Man of Nothing', p. 15

H. L. Perkoff, 'Advice Before a Journey', p. 16

H. B. Mallalieu, 'Winter Afternoon', pp. 16 - 17

Kenneth Allott, 'Against the Clock', pp. 17 - 18

[Julian Symons], 'Tuttifruitti: or The Worse for Poetry', p. 19

Ruthven Todd, 'Two Wars and Mr. Campbell', review, pp. 20 - 21 [Review of Journey To a War, by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, Poems for Spain, edited by Stephen Spender and John Lehmann, and Flowering Rifle, by Roy Campbell]

Julian Symons, 'Construction and Invention', review, pp. 22 - 23 [Review of Hawk Among the Sparrows, by Desmond Hawkins, Over the Mountain, by Ruthven Todd, and Happy Valley, by Patrick White]

Roy Fuller, 'Poems by Editors', review, pp. 24 - 26 [Review of Confusions About X, by Julian Symons, and Several Observations, by Geoffrey Grigson]