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U DSG Papers of Howard Sergeant, Including [1930]-1995 the Archives of 'Outposts' Poetry Magazine Hull History Centre: Howard Sergeant, inc 'Outposts' poetry magazine U DSG Papers of Howard Sergeant, including [1930]-1995 the Archives of 'Outposts' poetry magazine Biographical Background: Herbert ('Howard') Sergeant was born in Hull in 1914 and qualified as an accountant. He served in the RAF and the Air Ministry during the Second World War and with the assistance of his friend Lionel Monteith, edited and published the first issue of his poetry magazine 'Outposts' in February 1944. Outposts is the longest running independent poetry magazine in Britain. Sergeant had been writing poetry since childhood and his first poem to be published was 'Thistledown magic', in 'Chambers Journal' in 1943. 'Outposts' was conceived in wartime and its early focus was on poets 'who, by reason of the particular outposts they occupy, are able to visualise the dangers which confront the individual and the whole of humanity, now and after the war' (editorial, 'Outposts', no.1). Over the decades, the magazine specialised in publishing unrecognised poets alongside the well established. Sergeant deliberately avoided favouring any particular school of poetry, and edited 'Mavericks: an anthology', with Dannie Abse, in 1957, in support of this stance. Sergeant's own poetry was included in the first issue of 'Outposts' (but rarely thereafter) and his first published collection, 'The Leavening Air', appeared in 1946. He was involved in setting up the Dulwich Group (a branch of the British Poetry Association) in 1949, and again, when it re-formed in 1960. In 1956, Sergeant published the first of the Outposts Modern Poets Series of booklets and hardbacks devoted to individual poets. During his lifetime he served on the Executive Councils of the PEN, the English Association, the National Book League and the Poetry Society, as well as on the panel of judges for the EC Gregory Awards and many other poetry awards and competitions. His work as a poetry editor reached far beyond 'Outposts', and he specialised particularly in Commonwealth poetry and children's poetry, as well as lecturing on how to teach poetry to children. Alongside his literary work, he had a career first as a company accountant, and then from 1963, as a lecturer. He retired as head of the School of Management at Brooklands Technical College in Weybridge in 1978 and received an MBE in the same year. After a gap of many years, he began to write poetry again and several of his anthologies date from the 1980s, including his 'Selected poems'. After his death in 1987, the editorship of 'Outposts' was taken over by Roland John. Custodial history: Deposited by Mrs Jean Sergeant, 30 January 1998 Description: Correspondence The most significant sets of correspondence are the files containing letters from other poets, 1945-1986 [U DSG/1/1-6] and the extensive correspondence between Howard Sergeant (and his first wife Dorothy) and his close friend Lionel Monteith, 1942-1989 [U DSG/1/30-36]. Files U DSG/1/1-6 contain letters from, amongst others, Kingsley Amis, Jack Clemo, Alex Comfort, Douglas Dunn, TS Eliot, Gavin Ewart, Ted Hughes, BS Johnson, C Day Lewis, Norman Nicholson, Ezra Pound, Siegfried Sassoon, Alan Sillitoe, Stevie Smith and Stephen Spender. page 1 of 324 Hull History Centre: Howard Sergeant, inc 'Outposts' poetry magazine There are also copies of poems by Charles Causley (from 1959) and Seamus Heaney (from 1983). The correspondence with Lionel Monteith covers their literary and personal lives, including discussion of poems, essays, short stories and articles they have written, the publication of the first issue of Outposts and its development as a poetry magazine, Sergeant's affair with Muriel Spark, the breakdown of his first marriage and his marriage to his second wife Jean. There is a single file of correspondence relating to Sergeant's attempts to recruit vice-presidents for the British Poetry Association in 1949 (including TS Eliot) [U DSG/1/20] and brief correspondence with George Hartley about Philip Larkin's recording of 'The Less Deceived' and setting up 'Listen Records' as a limited company [U DSG/1/24/20]. Poetry and fiction by Howard Sergeant This series includes lists of poems written by Sergeant and published in poetry magazines over the years 1944 to 1987 [U DSG/2/1-2], as well as files relating to specific published collections, The headlands (1953), Selected poems (1980) and Fairground familiars (1985) [U DSG/2/4-6]. These files include manuscripts, typescripts or proof copies of the poems in each collection, with related correspondence with publishers, printers and fellow poets. Sergeant's early literary work is covered by a file labelled 'Whitewing series' and as well as poetry composed 1938-1940, this includes several short stories and an essay, 'Youth thinks of tomorrow', which prefigures his reasons for setting up Outposts and presents his view of the post-war world [U DSG/2/3] - this was published in the journal Plan, vol.11 no.10, October 1944 [U DSG/5/2]. Outposts Poetry Quarterly Files are available only for issues 139-148, Winter 1983 to spring 1986 [U DSG/3/2-11], containing typescripts of the poems published in each issue, correspondence with poets and reviewers, mock-ups, editorial pieces, book reviews and printed proofs. However there is a full set of published issues nos. 1-181, covering February 1944 to 1995 [U DSG/3/22-183]. This set includes the 20th anniversary edition (spring 1964) , 25th anniversary edition (spring 1969), the centenary edition (spring 1974), and the 40th anniversary edition (Autumn 1983). After Sergeant's death in 1987, issues 158 onwards were edited by Roland John, who continues to run the magazine. Anthologies edited by Howard Sergeant This series of files makes up a substantial proportion of the archive and covers Sergeant's work as compiler and editor of the following anthologies: An anthology of contemporary northern poetry (1947) [U DSG/4/1]; The Cumberland Wordsworth (1950) [U DSG/4/2]; These years: an anthology of poems for the use of schools (1950) [U DSG/4/3]; Tradition in the making of modern poetry (1951) [U DSG/4/4-5]; A critical survey of South African poetry (1957) [U DSG/4/7-8]; Commonwealth poems of today (1967) and New voices of the Commonwealth (1968) [U DSG/4/9-47]; Poetry from Africa (1968) [U DSG/4/48]; Poems from hospital (1968) [U DSG/4/49]; Poetry from Australia (1969) [U DSG/4/50]; The swinging rainbow: poems for the young (1969) [U DSG/4/51]; Happy landings: poems for the youngest (1971) [DSG/4/51]; Poetry of the 1940s (1970) [U DSG/4/52]; African voices (1973) [U DSG/4/53-58]; For today and tomorrow: an anthology of poems for young people (1974) [U DSG/4/59]; New poems 1976/77: a PEN anthology (1976) [U DSG/4/60-61]; Poems from the medical world (1980) [U DSG/4/62-63]; The Gregory Awards anthology (1981) [U DSG/4/64]; The Gregory Awards anthology (1982) [U DSG/4/65]; How strong the roots: poems of exile (1981) [U DSG/4/66]. page 2 of 324 Hull History Centre: Howard Sergeant, inc 'Outposts' poetry magazine The sub-series on the two Commonwealth anthologies [DSG/4/9-47] includes individual files for the following continents and countries: Africa, Australia, British Guiana, Canada, Ceylon [Sri Lanka], Cyprus, Gambia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia and Singapore, Malta, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rhodesia [now Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe], Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom, the West Indies and Zambia. The majority of these files comprise correspondence with, and copies of poems by, contributors and potential contributors to each anthology. They are therefore a very useful source for tracing examples of the work of a wide range of international poets, from the well known and established (such as Margaret Attwood, Zulfikar Ghose, Wole Soyinka, Ted Hughes, Charles Causley and Ken Saro-Wiwa) to the obscure and unpublished. They can also be used as a means of studying the kinds of poetry being written in various Commonwealth countries during the 1960s and early 1970s. Other items of note in this series include a leaflet about the reassessment method of literary criticism co-authored by Muriel Spark and Howard Sergeant [U DSG/4/14/1] and single letters found in various files from Norman Nicholson, J Redwood Anderson, Doris Lessing, Leonard Cohen, DJ Enright, Kwesi Brew, Dannie Abse, Al Alvarez, John Betjeman, Anthony Thwaite, Douglas Dunn, Gavin Ewart, Philip Larkin, Andrew Motion, Tom Paulin, Muriel Spark and Hubert Nicholson, amongst others. Reviews, articles and lectures by Howard Sergeant Manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and cuttings of book reviews, articles, chapters in books and lectures written by Sergeant have been collected into bundles and files spanning the 1940s to the 1980s. Some of these relate to specific journals, magazines and newspapers for which he was a regular contributor, including The Ayran Path, Britannica Book of the Year, The Elizabethan, and English. Sergeant kept a record of writings submitted for publication over the period 1959-1986 [U DSG/5/1]. Subject files Files are available on different types of poetry and poetry movements (Concrete poetry, Imagism, the Movement, the Belfast Group) [U DSG/6/6, 21, 22 & 25]. There is an especially significant file on the Cornish poet Jack Clemo, which includes 15 poems or extracts of poems, letters from Clemo to Sergeant, an extract from a letter from Clemo to Charles Causley, and a script of a radio broadcast by Sergeant [U DSG/6/5]. There is a set of 13 files about the Gregory Awards, an award for poetry established in 1960, which Sergeant helped to judge up until 1986 [U DSG/6/8-20].
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