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0008436
Cover design by Henry Moore: The Lyre Bird, 1942.
Author/Editor: edited by TAMBIMUTTU
Publisher: Poetry London
Place Published: London
Year: 1942
Date & Collation: 7 1942(Oct-Nov) Front cover(1 illus).
Description:

Issue 7 of the journal Poetry London. Cover illustration is a reproduction of The Lyre Bird: Cover Design for Poetry (HMF 2063). Two plates included between pages 32 and 33 reproduce shelter drawings with a poem by Anne Ridler on the reverse: Group of Shelterers During an Air Raid (HMF 1808), and Two Figures Sharing the same Green Blanket (HMF 1705). HMF 1705 is reproduced without Moore's notes which appear above the drawing; HMF 1808 is captioned "Group of Figures in Underground Shelter".

Seven other issues of Poetry London have Moore drawings on the cover: issues 8 (0008437), 11 (0008438), 12 (0008439), 13 (0008440), 14 (0008441), 15 (0008442), and 16 (0008443).

Issues 1-23 of Poetry London were reprinted in five volumes in 1970 (0004725); issue 7 is in volume 2.

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0021914
Life Among the English
Author/Editor: MACAULAY Rose
Publisher: William Collins
Place Published: London
Year: 1942
Date & Collation: 48pp.illus
Description: Part of the Britain in Pictures / The British People in Pictures series. Two Moore illus, within chapter on Twentieth Century, page 45 and 48, show part images of Interior Scenes: Ten Domestic Scenes 1939 drawing, (HMF 1458) incorrectly entitled Modern Interior Scenes". Notes that the Moore image is courtesy of Sir Kenneth Clark."
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0018232
Answering You, No. 69 (Two-Way Series, No. 8) As Broadcast.
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1942
Date & Collation: 3pp.
Description: Partial copy of transcript, received July 1999. Probably BBC N. American Service (Rec.) Sunday 15th November 1942: 21.30-22.00 GMT & Monday 16th November 1942: 02.00-02.30 GMT. Censored by Eric Warr". British radio programme Answering You in which questioners in a New York studio talk direct to speakers in London.
Henry Moore Kenneth Clark Eric Linklater and others in London responded to questions from William Zorach and others in New York. Masters of Ceremonies: Peter Donald (New York) and Mary Adams (London).
Answering Zorach's question on how artists in London were responing to the War Moore stated that it was a necessity for him to carry on working. "One of the most important things we're fighting for I take it is to keep freedom of expression of which art is an important part."
Received 2001 is a full 10pp photocopy of the script. This includes short comments by Henry Moore about the War including the fact that he joined the Home Guard."