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Contemporary Poetry and Prose No. 8 (December 1936)
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Title: Contemporary Poetry and Prose
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Issue: No. 8
Editor: Roger Roughton.
Place of publication: London.
Publisher: Roger Roughton, Arts Café, 1 Parton Street, London W.C. 1
Date: December 1936
Price: One Shilling
Size: 8 5/8 ins x 5 1/2 ins (22cm x 14 cm)

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'Announcements', pp. 142 - 143
Isaac Babel, George Reavey (translator), 'With Our Father Makhno: An Episode of the Russian Civil War', story, pp. 143 - 144 [appears only as a blank page, owing to censorship.]
Francis Scarfe, 'A Myth', story, pp. 144 - 146
Humphrey Jennings, '"The Boyhood of Byron"', essay, pp. 146 - 147 [study for a long report]
'Uraon Dance Poem - (for the Karam Festival)', poem, pp. 147 - 148 [collected in Ranchi District, Chotanagpur, India, 1936]
William George Archer, 'Two Poems: Uraon Country', poem, pp. 148 - 150
B. H. Gutteridge, 'Temper', poem, p. 150
Paul Eluard, George Reavey (translator), 'Poem', poem, p. 151
Kenneth Allott, 'The Underworld', story, pp. 151 - 152
Roger Roughton, 'The Journey', story, pp. 152 - 154
John Collier, 'Possibly a Banana', story, pp. 154 - 157
Edgar Foxall, 'Poem', poem, p. 157
Jack Lindsay, 'Cradle Song', poem, pp. 157 - 158
Niall Montgomery, 'Eyewash', poem, pp. 158 - 159
Antonia White, 'L. R.', poem, pp. 159 - 160
St.-J. Perse, A. L. Lloyd (translator), 'Song', poem, p. 160
David Gascoyne, 'The Light of the Lion's Mane', prose poem, pp. 160 - 162
Alfred Morang, 'Tangled with Darkness', story, pp. 162 - 164
Sheila Legge, 'I Have Done My Best for You', story, p. 165
R. E. H. R., 'Final Night of the Bath', p. 166 [assembled from passages in the "Evening Standard" of June 6, 1936]
Humphrey Jennings, '"Surrealism"', review, pp. 167 - 168 [review of Surrealism, edited, with an introduction, by Herbert Read (Faber & Faber)]