Great Regulars: For forty years, from 1961

until his death in 2001, the magazine was edited by Alan Ross, who had served in the Royal Navy from 1942-47, and whose poems on naval conflict are the most substantial group to have come out of the Second World War. Ross’s strong links with the TLS included his officiating as umpire at the paper’s annual cricket match. "Destroyers in the Arctic" was first published in 1952.

Destroyers in the Arctic

from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week

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