William Plomer: Selected Poems, edited by Neilson Mackay John Agard Hailed as the ‘prophet’ of

Hailed as the ‘prophet’ of the Surrealist movement by André Breton

or stumbling from a bar ‘like a monkey in the jungle of traffic

She is increasingly known for her sweeping and incisive long poems and book-length projects

living with disability  or being trans are not tragedies to overcome but ways of being

William Plomer: Selected Poems, edited by Neilson Mackay John Agard Hailed as the ‘prophet’ ofBy turns lyrical, amatory, satirical and dramatic, William Plomer addresses his favourite subjects Africa, the divided self, aesthetic pleasure, the macabre and the absurd with a formal assurance, bleak wit and urgency of feeling. This rich and thorough selection presents, for the first time in almost fifty years, Plomer? s best. "Neilson MacKay has performed a welcome rescue operation on the unjustly forgotten William Plomer, novelist, librettist,