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Arachne Anthology

"Arachne" will put out an Anthology of the work of some seven writers associated with the magazine. This Anthology will attempt to focus on the important new tendencies, and will contain a detailed introductory essay seeking the principles behind them.

"Arachne Anthology" will be free to subscribers, and is more specifically designed to make the "ARACHNE" poets known abroad, for which purpose arrangements are being made through various agents.

Contributors will include . . .

Charles Spear

James K. Baxter

Alistair Campbell

W. H. Oliver

P. S. Wilson

Hubert Witherford

E. G. Schwimmer

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less formal passages which commemorate the humorous and poignant debris of a civilisation that seems to me the most astonishing achievement of the cantos—

'and similar things occurred in Dalmatia lacking that treasure of honesty
which is the treasure of states and the dog-damn wop is not, save by exception,
honest in administration any more than the briton is truthful.'

The political opinions expressed will seem as misguided to most readers as Byron's dis-appointment that Napoleon had not won the Battle of Waterloo. They are expressed without hysteria and are not always so difficult to defend—

'militarism progressing westward
im Westen nichts neues
and the Constitution in jeopardy
and that state of things not very new either.'

The Pisan Cantos end—

'you can, said Stef (Lincoln Steffens) do nothing with revolutionaries
until they are at the end of their tether and that Vandenberg has read Stalin, or
Stalin, John Adams is, at the mildest, unproven. If the hoar frost grip thy tent
Thou wilt give thanks when night is spent.'