Arthur Boyars
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Arthur Boyars (28 May 1925 – 6 August 2017)<ref name=Independent>Template:Cite news</ref> was a British poet and musicologist, who was also a translator and critic, literary editor and publisher.
His Poems were published in 1944 by Fortune Press. Boyars started the small magazine Mandrake in 1945 with John Wain while at Wadham College, Oxford,<ref name="Oxford" /><ref name="EmpsonHaffenden2006">Template:Cite book</ref> subtitled "An Oxford Review";<ref name="Ford">Template:Cite web</ref> it was published until 1957.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Boyars was editor of Oxford Poetry in 1948.<ref name="Oxford">Template:Cite web</ref> He is known also as a translator of Russian poetry. He became the second husband of Marion Lobbenberg, who formed a partnership with John Calder in the publishing house Calder & Boyars. Boyars's name is associated with the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko.<ref name="blog">Template:Cite web</ref> In 2011, Boyars published a limited edition of his own poetry, Dictations: Selected Poems 1940–2009, which was described by the critic Alberto Manguel as "Dantesque".<ref name=Independent />
Works
- (ed. with Barry Hamer), Oxford Poetry 1948, Oxford: Blackwell, 1948
- (trans. with David Burg) Yuli Daniel, Prison Poems, 1971
- (trans. with Simon Franklin) Yevgeny Yevtushenko, The Face Behind the Face, 1979
- Dictations: Selected Poems 1940–2009, Lexington: The Philidor Company, 2011