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Empire Poetry League

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was a British-based organisation founded in 1917, with an effective existence of about 15 years. Initially having a patriotic impetus, and counting a number of leading literary figures among its supporters โ€”
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The work of the League in publishing new poets made few reputations, and Wright was outspoken against
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from 1923; though some have discounted this as more tactical than convinced on Wright's part.
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Brian Stableford, "Against the New Gods: The Speculative Fiction of S. Fowler Wright", in
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Wessex Song. An Anthology of Contemporary Dorsetshire and Wiltshire Poetry
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Against the New Gods and Other Essays on Writers of Imaginative Fiction
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Some Scottish verse: an anthology of contemporary Scottish poetry
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Sussex Song, an Anthology of Contemporary Sussex Poetry
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The County Series of Contemporary Poetry I Warwickshire
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