text: Arthur Boyars
  
  Arthur Boyars (28 May 1925 – 6 August 2017) 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. He started the small magazine Mandrake in 1946 with John Wain while at Wadham College, Oxford, subtitled the 'An Oxford Review'; it was published until 1957. He was editor of Oxford Poetry in 1948. 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. His name is associated with the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
  
  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
  
  References
  
  Add to Arthur Boyars's  publications:  Dictations:  Selected Poems 1940 - 2009.  The Philidor Company:Lexington.  2011
  
  External links
  www.arthurboyars.com contains some of Arthur Boyars' early poetry.
  
  Category:1925 births
  Category:2017 deaths
  Category:British poets
  Category:Russian–English translators
  Category:British male poets