William Plomer: Selected Poems, edited by Neilson Mackay John Agard twenty-five years on

twenty-five years on

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

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William Plomer: Selected Poems, edited by Neilson Mackay John Agard twenty-five years onBy 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,