Salamander Oasis Trust

The Salamander Oasis Trust was set up after the Second World War to collect, edit and publish poems written by servicemen of all nations during the 1939-1945 War. Since its inception, the Trust has collected more than 17,000 Second World War poems and published five anthologies of poetry. As of May 2012, following the death of Colin McIntyre, last editor of the Trust, the Trust has effectively ceased to operate.

The OASIS poets came together in Cairo in World War Two, and published their first selection of wartime poetry there in 1943. After the war, the Salamander Oasis Trust was set up to collect, edit and publish not only the original Cairo poems but selections from all the other poetry written during the Second World War. The first collected anthology of all these poems, Return to Oasis was published by Shepheard Walwyn in 1980. It was followed in 1983 by From Oasis Into Italy, by the same publishers. Since then some half-dozen other anthologies have been published, under the auspices of the Salamander Oasis Trust.

1. 1The Salamander Oasis Trustsalamanderoasis.org
2. 2About the Salamander Oasis Trustsalamanderoasis.org