My First Amorous Adventure. Playboy 19: 91, 246–247, January. [This was reprinted in Editor, anonymous. Making Out. [Chicago:] Playboy Press, [1974], pp.101-105.]
*Six Blankets. Malahat Review no. 21: 9, January.
*The Note – The Prepared Statement. Listener: 13 January, p. 44.
Lilliburlero on the Overseas News. The Times, 15 February, p. 13. [Letter concerning the introductory air on the BBC Overseas News.)
*Hedgepig. New Statesman 83: 247, 25 February.
Lilliburlero. The Times, 26 February, p. 13. [Letter.]
ENTRY CANCELLED See C912.2
A Blast Against Modern Trends in All the Arts. Chicago-Sun Times, 12 March, p.2, Section Three. [Also published 12 March 1972 in Long Island Press, Leisure section, as “Alas, What has Happened to the Arts?”. The entry was formerly listed for 1970 as C867, under the title “Alas, What has Happened to the Arts?”, Boston Sunday Globe, 19 March, p. 7. However, the article was first published in 1972. This was a syndicated article, appearing at various dates and with various titles in a number of American newswspapers.]
*Title of Poet. Esquire 77: 24, March.
Gábor Devecseri: Record of a Poetic Friendship. New Hungarian Quarterly 13: [121] 122–123, Spring.
*Crown of Moonlight. Listener 87: 454, 6 April. [This is the first appearance of this poem. A revised version, under the title Coronet of Moonlight, was published in A134, A138, 163, 166.]
Where Has Art Gone? Daily Telegraph Magazine, 12 May, p.7. [Revised in C940.1.]
He Looked at a Taxi with the Numberplate EUC 377 J and Said that was Euclid’s 377th Theorem. Guardian, 17 July, p.8. [Interview by Terry Coleman.]
*Dilemma. New Yorker 48: 30, 29 July.
*St. Antony of Padua. Atlantic 230: 60, September.
*Three Times in Love. Esquire 78: 36, September. [Revised in later appearaces.]
Robert Graves y el Giro de su Imagen. La Vanguardia Español (Barcelona), 13 September 1972, p.10. [Interview with Graves conducted by Antonio María Thomas.]
Traditionalist – Beatrice and Dante – Silent Visit. Listener 88: 342, 14 September.
*Records – Always. Times Literary Supplement, 15 September, p.1049.
*Wall, The. New Statesman 84: 400, 22 September.
*Prepared Statement. Atlantic 230: 119, October.
Absentee Fusilier. Encounter 39: 3–5, October. [Graves reminisces about his experiences during the Second World War.]
*Cupboard. Poetry 121: 9, October. [Reprint of C69.] `
*Noose, The – Her Beauty. Playboy 19: 220, December.
*Toast to Death – Pity. Littack 1: 107, December.
*[No one can understand our habit of love] – [Love makes poor sense in either speech or letters.] Daily Telegraph Magazine, 8 December, pp. 41, 43. [These untitled poems were published about a month earlier in A132.]
*Strongest Moonlight. Daily Telegraph Magazine, 8 December, p.45.
Strongest Moonlight. Daily Telegraph Magazine, 8 December, pp.45, 47–48. [Article by Edward Booth-Clibborn on the publication of A132; article contains a number of quotations from Graves.]