val baker started publishing his own quarterly magazine "opus", (later to be renamed "voices") in the early forties featuring stories, poems and reviews by his contemporaries- many of whom went on to be well-known writers. in 1943 he produced the first of his annual "little reviews anthologies" through allen & unwin, which presented the best of that year's output from the country’s many literary magazines. there were also a series of anthologies of short stories by british and international writers.