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Agenda Magazine Archive List Vol.1 No. 1 January 1959 Including : Peter Russell Vol. 1 No. 2 Febuary 1959 Including: Peter Whigham, Edmund Grey Vol.1 No.3 March 1959 Vol. 1 No. 4 April 1959 Including: Peter Russell, Noel Stock, Alan Neame, Ronald Duncan Vol.1 No 5 May 1959 Including: Ewart Milne Vol. 1 No. 6 July-August 1959 Vol. 1 No. 7 September-October 1959 Including: Noel Stock, Ronald Duncan Vol. 1 No. 8 November 1959 Including: Noel Stock, Peter Whigham, Vol. 1 No. 9 December 1959 Including: Ronald Duncan, Noel Stock, Alan Neame, Peter Whigham Vol. 1 No.10 April 1960 Price: Ninepence Including: William Carlos Williams, Ronald Duncan, David.M Gordon, Osip Mandelshtam Vol. 1 No. 11 June 1960 Price: Ninepence Including: Noel Stock, Donald Hall, Peter Whigham Vol. 1 No. 12 July 1960 Price: Ninepence Including: Peter Whigham, Noel Stock Vol. 2 No. 1 September 1960 Price: Ninepence Including: William Carlos Williams, Thomas Cole, Gamel Woolsey Vol. 2 Nos. 2-3 December-January 1960-61 Price Two Shillings Including: Jean Cocteau’s Leoun Translated by Alan Neame Vol. 2 No. 4 June 1961 Price: One Shilling Including: Alan Neame, Charles Tomlinson, David Wright, Noel Stock, Peter Russell, Denis Goacher Vol.2 No.5 September-October 1961 Price: One Shilling Including: Hugh MacDiarmid, Ronald Duncan, David Wright, Peter Whigham, C.H. Sisson, Thomas Cole, Noel Stock, Samuel Menashe Vol. 2 No.6 February-March 1962 Price: One Shilling & Sixpence Including: Alan Neame, Peter Dale, Desmond Stewart, Virginia Maskell, Michael O’Higgins, Michael Alexander Vol 2 Nos. 7-8 May-June 1962 Price: Two Shillings Including: Peter Dale, Hugh MacDiarmid, Peter Levi, S.J., Charles Tomlinson, Peter Russell, Michael Alexander, Michael O’Higgins, William Carlos Williams Vol. 2 Nos. 9-10 September-October 1962 Price: Two Shillings Including: Elegy by Peter Russell Vol. 2 Nos. 11-12 March-April 1963 Price: Two Shillings & Sixpence Including: Ezra Pound, David Jones, Donald Hall, Peter Levi, S.J., John Bayley Vol. 3 No. 1 August-September 1963 Including: John Bayley, Howard Burns, Peter Dale, Ronald Duncan, Clive Jordan, Peter Levi, William Carlos Williams Vol. 3 No. 2 October-November 1963 Special Issue William Carlos Williams Vol. 3 No. 3 December-January 1963/4 Ezra Pound: sections from New Cantos (Incuding: Theodore Roethke, Charles Tomlinson, Peter Dale, Ted Hughes, C. 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Milne, Tim Ades, John Cayley, Peter Russel, Jonathan Barker, Peter Levi, Stephen Sefton, John Constable Vol. 23 Nos. 1-2 (double issue) Spring-Summer 1985 Price:£5 T. S. Elliot Special Issue Including Scylla and Charybdis A Hitherto Unpublished Lecture Vol. 23 Nos. 3-4 (double issue) Autumn-Winter 1985/86 Price: £6 Including: Geoffrey Hill, Ezra Pound, T. S. Elliot Vol. 24 No. 1 Spring 1986 Price: £3 Vol. 24 No. 2 Summer 1986 Price £3 Vol. 24 No. 3 Autumn 1986 Price: £3 Peter Levi Special Issue Vol. 24 No. 4 - Vol. 25 No. 1 (double issue) Winter-Spring 1987 Price: £6 Vol. 25 No. 2 Summer 1987 Price: £3 Vol. 25 Nos. 3-4 (double issue) Autumn-Winter 1987/8 Price:£7 H. D. Special Issue Vol. 26 No. 1 Spring 1988 Price: £3.50 Vol. 26 No. 2 Summer 1988 Price: £3.50 Peter Dale Fiftieth Birthday Issue Vol. 26 No. 3 Autumn 1988 Price: £3.50 Including: Geoffrey Hill, John Cayley, John Heath-Stubbs, Peter Levi, Kathleen Raine, Moelwyn Merchant, Jean MacVean, Heather Buck Vol.
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