Agenda (poetry journal)

*Agenda*
	Vol 51 (Published 23 Jan 2018 )
Discipline	Poetry, literary journal
Language	English
Edited by	Patricia McCarthy
Publication details
History	1959 to present
Publisher	Agenda and Editions Charitable Trust (United Kingdom)
Frequency	Quarterly
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Agenda
Indexing;
ISSN	0002-0796;
Links
	Journal homepage;

Agenda is a literary journal published in London and founded by William Cookson. Agenda Editions is an imprint of the journal operating as a small press.

History and editorial orientation[edit]

Agenda was started in 1959, after Cookson had met Ezra Pound in Italy the previous year.^[1] Pound had originally suggested that Cookson edit pages in an existing publication, but when these plans did not come to fruition, the bookseller and poet Peter Russell suggested that Cookson found his own magazine. Agenda was edited with Peter Dale and then Patricia McCarthy, who continues to edit the journal following Cookson's death in 2003.

The editorial preoccupations of Agenda reflected Cookson's own passions. The journal continued to champion Pound long after the poet's death. A "Special Issue in Honour of Ezra Pound's Eighty-Fifth Birthday" (Vol. 8, Nos. 3–4) was a significant early issue of the journal in 1970, and a special issue on "Dante, Ezra Pound and Contemporary Poetry" (Vol. 34, Nos. 3–4) was published as late as 1996.

Cookson also used Agenda to promote the reputation of David Jones, devoting two major special issues to him (in 1967 and 1974) in addition to articles in several other issues. Agenda Editions published several major Jones volumes. These included The Kensington Mass (1975, published with a photographic reproduction of the manuscript) and The Roman Quarry (1981), a full-length volume of until then unpublished material. Agenda Editions published volumes of Jones's letters in 1979 and 1996.

Agenda is also notable for its focus upon the art of translation. Recent issues include "Translation as Metamorphosis" in 2005 (Vol. 4, No. 4).

Agenda: An Anthology 1959-1993 (1994)[edit]

Poets, translators and reviewers included were:

Theodore Roethke

References[edit]

^ "'Agenda': the long and the short of excellence in poetry". The Independent. 25 April 2008. Archived from the original on 6 May 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2015.

External links[edit]

Official website

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[1] "'Agenda': the long and the short of excellence in poetry". The Independent. 25 April 2008. Archived from the original on 6 May 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2015.

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