Shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2021 This first anthology of'Apocalyptic' or neo-romantic poetry since the nineteen-forties includes over 150 poets, many well known (Dylan Thomas, W.S. Graham), and others quite forgotten (Ernest Frost, Paul Potts). Over forty of the poets are women, of whom Edith Sitwell is among the most exuberant. Much of the contents has never previously been anthologised; many poems are reprinted for the first time since the 1940s. The poetry of the Second World War appears in a new context, as do early Tomlisnon and Hill. Here readers can enjoy an overview of the visionary-modernist British and Irish poetry of the mid-century, its antecedents and its aftermath. As a period style and as a body of work, Apocalyptic poetry will come as a revelation to most readers.
James Keery was born in Coleraine in 1958 and lives in Culcheth, near Warrington. He has published a collection of poems, That Stranger, The Blues (1996); edited Burns Singer's Collected Poems (2001); and contributed to a number of recent magazines and books, including PN Review, Angel Exhaust and Reading Dylan Thomas (2019). |
