Arthur Boyars

Arthur Boyars

Arthur Boyars (born 1925) is a British poet and musicologist, who is also a translator and critic, literary editor and publisher. His "Poems" were published in 1944 (Fortune Press). He started the small magazine "Mandrake" in 1946 with John Wain while at Wadham College, Oxford; it was published until 1957. He was editor of "Oxford Poetry" in 1948. He is known also as a translator of Russian poetry. He married Marion Lobbenberg, who became a partner with John Calder in the publishing house "Calder & Boyars". There are also other people named Arthur Boyars.


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