*To Put it Simply – The Garden – Fiery Orchard – Weather (Song) – Through the Clouds – To His Temperate Mistress. Nova (London): 61, January. [‘To Put it Simply’ was revised in its appearance in A138; ‘Through Clouds’ was re-titled and revised in a shorter version as ‘Serpent’s Tail’.]

*My Ghost. Atlantic 227: 85, January. [Revised in later appearances.]

Gravedigger. Sunday Times Weekly Review, 3 January, p. 35. [Telephone interview with Graves concerning Rio Tinto Zinc’s mining operations in Wales and New Guinea. The article also quotes a portion of C891.]

*Green-Sailed Vessel. New Yorker 47: 46, 20 March

*To Put It Simply – Weather (Song) – The Garden – Fiery Orchard. Virginia Quarterly Review 47: 227–228, Spring.

*Jus Primae Noctis. New Statesman 81: 600, 30 April.

*Tilth. New Statesman 81: 633, 7 May.

*Those Blind from Birth. New Statesman 81: 710, 21 May.

*Reduced Sentence, A. Times Literary Supplement, 28 May, p.611.

*Strangeness. Ladies Home Journal 88: 111, June. [Revised in later appearances.]

*Fools. New Statesman 81: 775, 4 June.

*Breakfast Table – The Half-Finished Letter – Problems of Gender – Confess, Marpessa – Knobs and Levers – Dreaming Children. Listener, 85: 750, 10 June. [This is the first appearance of all of these poems. ‘The Half-Finished Letter’ was revised in later appearances.]

Great Years of Their Lives, The – Robert Graves, Brigadier C.E. Lucas Phillips, Henry Williamson and Lord Chandos talk to Leslie Smith about the First World War. Listener 86: 73–75, 15 July.

*Reconciliation (Song). Atlantic 228: 110, September.

The Crane and the Horse. New Hungarian Quarterly 12: 145–147, Winter. [Text of talk given to the members of Hungarian PEN Centre, Budapest, 28 May 1971. Reprinted as ‘Address to the Poets of Hungary’ in A133.]

*Defeat of Time – Gorgon Mask. Mademoiselle 74: 70, November.

[Quotation from letter by Graves to William Marchant about Goodbye to All That.] Daily Telegraph, 20 November, p. 15.

*Age Gap. New Statesman 82: 741, 26 November.

Science, Technology and Poetry. New Scientist 52: 34–35, 2 December. [This was reprinted in Intellectual Digest 11: [54], April 1972, under the title ‘The Secret War Between Science and Poetry’ and in Clarke, Robin, editor. Notes for the Future. London: Thames and Hudson, [1975], pp. 138-140, under its original title.]

*Dream of Frances Speedwell. New Statesman 82: 928, 31 December.