British Poetry Magazines 1914‐2000: A History and Bibliography of “Little Magazines”

In searching for a definition of what constitutes a “little magazine,” the editors state that for their purposes it is a publication that “contains or concerns itself with poetry”. Like most of the titles included in their bibliography, it may have a limited circulation and a brief life and may appeal to a small, specialized readership. The book under review also includes more conventional periodicals like Criterion, Scrutiny, Horizon and Encounter – “The Waste Land,” the key English‐language poem of Modernism, appeared in the first of these (which was edited by T.S. Eliot). The Poetry Review began in 1912 and...