Agenda (poetry journal)

Agenda is a literary journal published in London and founded by William Cookson.

Agenda was started in 1959, after Cookson had met Ezra Pound in Italy the previous year.

[1] Pound had originally suggested that Cookson edit pages in an existing publication, but when these plans did not come to fruition, the bookseller and poet Peter Russell suggested that Cookson found his own magazine.

A "Special Issue in Honour of Ezra Pound's Eighty-Fifth Birthday" (Vol.

These included The Kensington Mass (1975, published with a photographic reproduction of the manuscript) and The Roman Quarry (1981), a full-length volume of until then unpublished material.