JON SILKIN, 1938-
The Peaceable Kingdom: Poems. London: Chatto & Windus,
1954; Miami: Olivant Press, 1959;
revised edition, [s. l.]: Heron Press,
1975, 550 copies.
The Two Freedoms. London: Chatto & Windus, 1958; New York: Macmillan, 1958.
Isaac Rosenberg, 1890-1918: A
Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at Leeds University, May-June 1959, Together
with the Text of Unpublished Material, prepared by Silkin and Maurice de Sausmarez. Leeds: University
of Leeds/Partridge Press, 1959.
Living Voices, selected by Silkin. London:
Vista Books, 1960.
The Re-ordering of the Stones. London: Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press, 1961.
Flower Poems. Leeds: School of English, University of Leeds, 1964,
Northern House Pamphlet Poets; revised edition, Newcastle upon Tyne: Northern House, 1978, Northern House Poets,
27.
Nature with Man. London: Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press, 1965.
Phoenix Living Poets.
Richard Murphy, Jon Silkin, Nathaniel Tarn. Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1965. Penguin Modern Poets, no. 7.
Poems New and Selected. London:
Chatto & Windus, 1966; Middletown, CT:
Wesleyan University Press, 1966.
Against Parting, by Nathan Zach, translated by Silkin.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Northern
House, 1967.
Three Poems. Cambridge, MA: Pym-Randall Press, 1969. 226 copies.
Killhope Wheel. Ashington: Mid-Northumberland Arts Group, 1971. North Now Pamphlet, no. 3.
Amana Grass. London: Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press, 1971, Phoenix
Living Poets; Middletown, CT: Wesleyan
University Press, 1971.
Out of Battle: The Poetry of the
Great War,
edited by Silkin. London: Oxford University Press, 1972.
Caring for Animals. Williamsburg, MA: The Four Zoas Press [1972?]. “200 or so copies. . . “
“Air that Pricks Earth . . .” Rushden: Sceptre Press,
1973. 150 copies.
Poetry of the Committed Individual: A
“Stand” Anthology of Poetry, edited, with an introduction, by Silkin. London: Gollancz,
1973. Stand, no. 2.
The Principle of Water. Chealde:
Carcanet Press, 1974.
A “Jarapin” Poem. Knotting: Sceptre Press, 1975. 150 copies.
The Little Time-Keeper: Poems. Ashington: Mid-Northumberland
Arts Group/Manchester: Carcanet,
1976; Sydney: Wilde & Woolley,
1976; New York: Norton, 1977.
Two Images of Continuing Trouble: A
Poem,
with drawings by Alison Dalwood. Richmond,
Surrey: Keepsake Press, 1976.
180 copies.
The Burning Bush: Poems From Modern
Israel. London: W.H.
Allen, 1977.
Jerusalem. Knotting: Sceptre Press, 1977. 150 copies.
Into Praising: Poem, with photographs by Edwin
Easydorchik. Sunderland: Ceolfrith Press, 1978. 750 copies.
The Lapidary Poems. Knotting: Sceptre Press, 1979. 150 copies.
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, edited, with an introduction,
by Silkin. London: Allen Lane, 1979; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979; revised and enlarged edition,
London: Penguin, 1996.
The Psalms with Their Spoils. London:
Routledge & K. Paul, 1980.
Selected Poems. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1980; revised edition,
1988.
Autobiographical Stanzas: “Someone’s
Narrative.” Langley Park,
County Durham: Taxus Press, 1983.
Footsteps on a Downcast Path. Bath: Mammon Press, 1984. 350 copies.
Stand One: Winners of the Stand
Magazine Short Story Competition, edited by Silkin, Michael Blackburn, and Lorna Tracy.
London: Gollancz, 1984.
Wilfred Owen: The Poems, edited by Silkin. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985.
Gurney: A Play. North Shields, Northumberland:
Iron Press, 1985.
The Ship’s Pasture: Poems. London & New York: Routledge
& K. Paul, 1986.
Best Short Stories from Stand Magazine, edited by Silkin, Lorna Tracy,
and John Wardle. London: Methuen, 1988.
The Lens-breakers. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992.
The War Poems: Wilfred Owen, edited by Silkin. London: Sinclair-Stevenson,
1994.
Watersmeet. Tyne & Wear: Bay, 1994.
The Life of Metrical and Free Verse in Twentieth-Century Poetry. Bassingstoke: Macmillan/New
York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Testament without Breath, with images by Robert McNab. Cornwall:
Cargo Press, 1998.
Bibliographies:
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