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34-602: Founded in January 1912, the publication took over from the Poetical Gazette , a members' news magazine for the newly formed Poetry Society. It was first edited by Harold Monro , who was ousted after a year by alarmed, more conservative-minded trustees. He was followed by Stephen Phillips (1913–15). Galloway Kyle, The Poetry Society's founder and director, presided over the Review from 1916 to 1947. He managed to keep

68-414: A bitter, disillusioned 1914 poem by Harold Monro, "To what God shall we chant our songs of battle?" alongside passages from Lamentations and St Luke . James O'Donnell, Abbey organist and master of the choristers, commented that the work "leaves you standing on the edge of an abyss." To what God Shall we chant Our songs of Battle? Oh, to whom shall a song of battle be chanted? Not to our lord of

102-488: A civil engineer. Monro's father was born at Marylebone and died aged 41 when Monro was only nine years old. The Monro family was well established in Bloomsbury . His paternal grandfather, Dr Henry Munro FRCP MD, was a surgeon, born at Gower St , Bloomsbury , in 1817. Monro was educated at Radley College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge . His first collection of poetry was published in 1906. He also edited

136-454: A long editorial. Marinetti's campaign both threatened and influenced Ezra Pound, who founded his own literary movement, Imagism, and wrote manifestos to publicize it while attacking Futurism. Vorticism was the second London literary movement both opposing and reflecting Marinetti's, with Pound as a major collaborator. Monro wrote few war poems himself, but his "Youth in Arms" quartet, written in

170-600: A midshipman on HMS Implacable , died a fortnight after his 18th birthday in Greece, on 4 October 1915. On 2 December 1903 in Eastbourne, Monro married Dorothy Elizabeth Browne. Their son Nigel Monro (1904–1951) was born in Ireland, where Harold was working as a land agent for a family friend. However, the marriage was not to last and in 1908, the couple separated. The son followed Monro family medical tradition and practised as

204-653: A poetry magazine, The Poetry Review , which became influential. In 1913, he founded the Poetry Bookshop at 35 Devonshire Street in Bloomsbury, where he published new collections at his own expense and sometimes made a profit, while providing a welcoming environment for readers and poets. Several poets, including Wilfrid Wilson Gibson , lodged in the rooms above the shop. Monro and the Poetry Bookshop were also involved with Edward Marsh in publishing

238-518: A promising young poet and musical editor died at the Somme in 1916. It is said that Alida had a greater influence than anyone on the development of Monro's own poetry. In his later years, Monro reflected on whether the Poetry Bookshop had fulfilled its purpose and whether it should be closed, but he was too deeply attached to it. According to the English literary historian Dominic Hibberd , "By now Monro

272-400: A surgeon. In March 1913 Monro met Alida Klemantaski, 17 years his junior, from Hampstead, who also had a passion for poetry and had set herself goals of becoming a doctor or rescuing prostitutes from their predicament. Monro instead persuaded her that by working in the Poetry Bookshop, she would be achieving just as much for society. They were married in 1920. Alida's brother Louis Klemantaski,

306-448: A thousand slings. After the war, Monro wrote his somewhat trenchant overview Some Contemporary Poets (1920) , though this was not published by the Poetry Bookshop. He also founded The Chapbook (1919–1925, his third journal after The Poetry Review and Poetry and Drama , 1913–1914), which was not commercially viable, but contained some of his best work as a poet. His intention was to find "cultural middle ground" between modernism and

340-638: Is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region , Belgium. Located in the southern part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels , Anderlecht , Forest and Ixelles . In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch), but predominantly French-speaking nowadays. Saint-Gilles has a multicultural identity stemming from its diverse population. The housing stock varies from semi-derelict tenements near Brussels-South railway station in

374-683: The Georgian Poetry series. Monro also founded and edited Poetry and Drama . Between 1910 and 1914, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , who had established Italian Futurism with the publication of the first Futurist manifesto in 1909, gave readings and lectures in London with a view to establishing an English Futurism. Initially, he had an ally in Monro, who devoted the September 1913 issue of Poetry and Drama t o Futurism, praising Marinetti in

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408-757: The City of Brussels against possible attacks. Erected in 1675, this fort was dismantled in the following century to give way to several important toll roads and urban development. The name of the Barrière de Saint-Gilles / Bareel van Sint-Gillis neighbourhood (literally "Barrier of Saint Gilles") still commemorates those tolls to this day. During the French regime , on 31 August 1795, the village, by now called Saint-Gilles after its patron saint and main church, merged with neighbouring villages to form Uccle . Four years later, it gained its independence again, with its own mayor and municipal council. In 1830, Brussels became

442-458: The Review dynamically from 1947 to 1949, introducing a fee to be paid to contributors, but she was ousted for her poetic radicalism and liberal views. An editorial board presided from 1952 to 1962, led by Thomas Moult . Derek Parker handed over to avant-garde poet Eric Mottram in 1970, who was followed by Roger Garfitt and Peter Forbes (1985–2002). Other former editors include Adrian Henri , Andrew Motion and Mick Imlah . Fiona Sampson held

476-455: The Review had its largest ever audience. Published bi-monthly at the time, the readership rose from approximately 1000 before World War I to more than 6000 per issue by the end of World War II . Kyle appointed Alice Hunt Bartlett as American Associate Editor from 1923 and the publication featured significant content from the US during the 1920s and 1930s. The American journal Poetry , founded at

510-704: The University of Louvain (UCLouvain) is established in Saint-Gilles. Saint-Gilles's dense population is well served by public transport. Brussels-South railway station with its international high speed connections sits at the northern tip of the municipal territory, and the underground premetro (underground tram) line passes southwards through it. By 2025, the line should have been converted into heavy metro line 3, running from Albert northwards to Gare du Nord/Noordstation (Brussels-North Station), later to be extended to Bordet . Inhabitants have access to

544-465: The tram lines 3, 4, 8, 51, 81 and 97, as well as bus lines 48 to Stalle, 134 to St-Job, 136/137 to Alsemberg, 365a to Charleroi and W to Waterloo . There are 5 pods of Cambio shared cars, at Dumont, Horta, Janson, Parvis / Voorplein and Porte de Hal / Hallepoort . Saint-Gilles has a football club called Royal Union Saint Gilloise , which had his prime years in the 1930s. On 13 March 2021, after defeating local rivals R.W.D. Molenbeek , Union

578-709: The advancement of twentieth-century poetry." On Monday, 4 August 2014, a service was held at Westminster Abbey as "A Solemn Commemoration on the Centenary of the Outbreak of the First World War", HRH Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall , representing HM the Queen. After a reading from St John's Gospel , the choir gave the first performance of a new composition by David Matthews , a pupil of Benjamin Britten , setting

612-590: The area, Forest Abbey allowed Obbrussel to become an independent parish . This independence, however, was to last only eighty years, after which the administration of the village was given to Brussels. By the 16th century, Obbrussel had grown to 41 houses. In 1670, following orders from the Spanish government , the Count of Monterey built a fort in Obbrussel as part of the fortifications of Brussels to protect

646-401: The capital of newly founded Belgium. As a result, the rural village of Saint-Gilles, known for centuries for its cabbage cultivation, went through an unprecedented construction spree. The population increased from 2,500 around 1800 to more than 33,000 in 1880 to a peak of 60,000 in 1910. The street pattern was completely remodelled in the 1860s by the architect and urbanist Victor Besme. It

680-415: The early months of the First World War, is one of the first attempts to envisage the "human psychology" of soldiering and understand "how ungrudgingly Youth dies." These poems were inspired by Monro's fears for his friend, Basil Watt, whom he dearly loved and who was later killed at Loos . Monro's elegy for Watt, "Lament in 1915", is a monologue in unornamented, modern language. Happy boy, happy boy, David

714-410: The former, and it is particularly essential in relation to a poet who may find the times too noisy, too self-centred and too self-righteous to heed him". During both world wars Kyle paid particular attention to people serving in the armed forces, publishing their work and letters, interested in eye-witness accounts. Patriotic and populist, reliable and comforting to its readers during these times of chaos,

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748-491: The hosts on his ancient throne, Drowsing the ages out in Heaven alone. The celestial choirs are mute, the angels have fled: Word is gone forth abroad that our lord is dead. Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow. To what God Shall we chant Our songs of Battle? Oh, to whom shall a song of battle be chanted? If you had only recognised on this day

782-488: The immortal-willed, Youth a thousand thousand times Slain, but not once killed, Swaggering again today In the old contemptuous way; Leaning backward from your thigh Up against the tinselled bar — Dust and ashes! is it you? Laughing, boasting, there you are! First we hardly recognized you In your modern avatar. Soldier, rifle, brown khaki — Is your blood as happy so? Where's your sling or painted shield, Helmet, pike or bow? Well, you're going to

816-402: The magazine running during the blitzing of London, despite ongoing bombing of the neighbourhood and the damage of Kyle's own home. He declared that he wanted to make poetry popular, "the common heritage and joy to all", geared to a common everyman, bringing poetry down from its "ivory tower"."We should look forward as well as backward," Kyle stated, "but in reality the latter is more necessary than

850-484: The more traditional work exemplified by the Georgians . In this Monro took a broad view of the sphere of poetry, devoting whole numbers to children's rhymes and to songs by Walter de la Mare complete with scores. The young Monro was raised together with his sister Mary (died 1921) by their widowed mother, who remarried in 1910 to Sir Daniel Fulthorpe Gooch (1829–1926). Monro's stepbrother Lancelot Daniel Edward Gooch,

884-681: The north, to elegant bourgeois houses on the southern borders with Uccle and Ixelles , to tourist hotels at the inner end of the Chaussée de Charleroi/Charleroisesteenweg . The first houses of the hamlet of Obbrussel (Old Dutch: Obbrusselsche , meaning "Upper Brussels") were built, between the 7th and the 11th centuries, close to the Altitude Cent / Hoogte Honderd , one of the points of highest elevation in Brussels , now part of Forest . In 1216, following strong demographic growth in

918-403: The role from 2005 to 2012. A series of guest editors followed— George Szirtes , Charles Boyle , Bernardine Evaristo , Moniza Alvi , Esther Morgan and Patrick McGuinness —until Summer 2013, when Maurice Riordan assumed the editorship for the next four years. The Review was at first a monthly magazine and then from 1915 to 1951 became bi-monthly, turning quarterly in 1952. It has published

952-415: The same time as the Review , during the spring of 1912, was originally often regarded as a sister journal with the similar purpose of building the audience for contemporary poetry. Their roads soon separated. Poetry set out to establish itself as a home for serious critique, desiring to be select, radical, the leader of the field. Kyle was editor until his death in 1967 at the age of 92. Muriel Spark led

986-2035: The things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Oh, to whom shall a song of battle be chanted? Poets included in Twentieth Century Poetry , an anthology chosen by Harold Monro, 1933 edition: Lascelles Abercrombie , Richard Aldington , John Alford , A. C. Benson , Laurence Binyon , Edmund Blunden , W. S. Blunt , Gordon Bottomley , Robert Bridges , Rupert Brooke , Samuel "Erewhon" Butler , Roy Campbell , G. K. Chesterton , Richard Church , Padraic Colum , A. E. Coppard , Frances Cornford , John Davidson , W. H. Davies , Jeffery Day , Walter de la Mare , Lord Alfred Douglas , John Drinkwater , Helen Parry Eden , T. S. Eliot , Vivian Locke Ellis , Michael Field , J. E. Flecker , F. S. Flint , John Freeman , Stella Gibbons , Wilfrid Gibson , Robert Graves , Thomas Hardy , H. D. , Philip Henderson , Maurice Hewlett , Ralph Hodgson , Gerard Manley Hopkins , A. E. Housman , Ford Madox Hueffer , T. E. Hulme , Aldous Huxley , James Joyce , Rudyard Kipling , D. H. Lawrence , Cecil Day-Lewis , John Masefield , R. A. K. Mason , Charlotte Mew , Alice Meynell , Viola Meynell , Harold Monro, T. Sturge Moore , Edwin Muir , Henry Newbolt , Robert Nichols , Alfred Noyes , Wilfred Owen , J. D. C. Pellow , H. D. C. Pepler , Eden Phillpotts , Ezra Pound , Peter Quennell , Herbert Read , Isaac Rosenberg , Siegfried Sassoon , Geoffrey Scott , Edward Shanks , Fredegond Shove , Edith Sitwell , Osbert Sitwell , Sacheverell Sitwell , Stephen Spender , J. C. Squire , James Stephens , Edward Thomas , W. J. Turner , Sylvia Townsend Warner , Max Weber , Anna Wickham , Humbert Wolfe , William Butler Yeats Saint-Gilles, Belgium Saint-Gilles ( French , pronounced [sɛ̃ ʒil] ) or Sint-Gillis ( Dutch , pronounced [sɪntˈxɪlɪs] )

1020-434: The wars — That is all you need to know. Graybeards plotted. They were sad. Death was in their wrinkled eyes. At their tables—with their maps, Plans and calculations—wise They all seemed; for well they knew How ungrudgingly Youth dies. At their green official baize They debated all the night Plans for your adventurous days Which you followed with delight, Youth in all your wanderings, David of

1054-684: The work of poets including Thomas Hardy , Rupert Brooke , Robert Frost , W. H. Auden , Ezra Pound , Philip Larkin and Allen Ginsberg . In Spring 2014 the magazine returned to the title The Poetry Review . The current editor is the poet Wayne Holloway-Smith , who succeeded Emily Berry in Spring 2022, who in turn succeeded Maurice Riordan with the Spring 2017 issue. It is published in March, June, September and December and given to each subscribing member of The Poetry Society . Harold Monro Harold Edward Monro (14 March 1879 – 16 March 1932)

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1088-558: Was a disappointed man, appalled at the state of Europe and feeling forgotten by the poets he had helped." He had used up most of his money subsidising the shop. On top of a drinking problem, Monro contracted tuberculosis . He died on 16 March 1932, aged 53, at the Cliff Combe Nursing Home, Broadstairs , Kent, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium on the 19th. He was remembered as being liberal-minded and without literary prejudices. "Perhaps no one did more for

1122-455: Was an English poet born in Brussels , Belgium. As the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London, he helped many poets to bring their work before the public. Monro was born at 137 chaussée de Charleroi, Saint-Gilles/St Gillis , Brussels, on 14 March 1879, as the youngest of three surviving children of Edward William Monro (1848–1889), civil engineer, and his wife and first cousin, Arabel Sophia (1849–1926), daughter of Peter John Margary, also

1156-767: Was around that time that the Avenue Louise/Louizalaan , Brussels-South railway station , and the new Church of St. Gilles were built, to be followed soon after by the new prison and Municipal Hall . Nowadays, Saint-Gilles is one of the densest municipalities of the Brussels agglomeration. The local council usually has a socialist majority, and the current mayor is Jean Spinette. The municipality has 13 nursery and primary schools (10 French-speaking and 3 Dutch-speaking) and 7 secondary schools (6 French-speaking and 1 Dutch-speaking). The Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning of

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