POETRY FESTIVAL

Evening Star, Issue 23379, 23 September 1939, Page 17

POETRY FESTIVAL

' The Oxford verse-sneaking movement, having passed successfully out of its early experimental stage, has been growing rapidly of late years, and its organisers are' able to claim that they are now establishing a worthy tradition. comparable to that maintained in France (says ‘ The Times ’ Literary Supplement). The verse-speaking contests this year are to be held in the Taylor Institution on July 25 to 28. On two evenings during the festival programmes of spoken poetry and plays will be given in the Carfax Assembly Rooms. The evening of plavs is to be devoted to the memory of Yeats, and it is understood that group will perform ‘ Shadowy Waters,’ a play which is rarely seen nowadays, and also one of Yeats’s later plays. The judges will be .Messrs Gordon - ©ottomley, Richard Church, Austin Clarke. J. Compton, C. ■Day Lewis, Wilfrid Gibson, Wallace B. Nicholls. and L. A. G. Strong, and Miss Sylvia Townsend Warner. A new book by Sir James Jeans will bo forthcoming shortly from the Cambridge University Press, It will be entitled ‘ The Philosophy of Physical Science.’ ami dcve’ops principles of tboiivh' which should in dm author’s ■opinion be acceptable to every sclent Ist.