''St Botolph's Review'' was the student-made poetry journal from

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in 1956, which saw the first publication of

Ted Hughes Edward James "Ted" Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest wri ...

' poetry, at the launch of which Hughes met

Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, ''The ...

. The first issue appeared on 26 February 1956. It was named for

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as one of its founders, Lucas Myers, lived at the

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of that church. A second edition was published in 2006. A copy of the original journal was stored in the

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in 2010.

Contributors

Along with Hughes, the other listed contributors are : David Ross,

Daniel Huws Daniel Huws (born 1932) is the world's leading authority of the last hundred years on Welsh manuscripts, with contributions that are held to represent a significant advance on those of John Gwenogvryn Evans. He is noted in particular for his st ...

Daniel Weissbort Daniel Weissbort (30 April 1935 – 18 November 2013) was a poet, translator, multilingual academic and (together with Ted Hughes) founder and editor of the literary magazine ''Modern Poetry in Translation''. He died at the age of 78, and was b ...

, Lucas Myers, Nathaniel Minton and George Weissbort.

References

External links

Full Overview

'British Library Archive throws light on Hughes and Plath', guardian.co.uk

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