The Collected Poems of Montagu Slater Susan Muaddi Darraj

The Collected Poems of Montagu Slater Susan Muaddi DarrajMontagu Slater (1902 1956) is best known today as the librettist of Benjamin Brittens opera Peter Grimes (1945). But he was also a novelist, playwright, journalist, scriptwriter and a poet. A committed communist from the late 1920s, he was a leading figure in the cultural world of the mid century left, and co founded and edited Left Review in the 1930s and was theatre editor of Our Time in the 1940s. He worked with Britten, John Grierson, W. H. Auden

Ysanne Holt lectures on the History of Art at the Newcastle College of Art and Design and at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle

in which the chaos can scarcely be tamed and much is possible that would not work in more concentrated poetry

A crofter’s son

Airborne is at once buoyant and 'down to earth

currently imprisoned in Saudi Arabia on charges of apostasy

On the way he is shipwrecked on a small West Indian island inhabited by Carib Indians

the project of living a life in communities

Ben Johnson

Ron Southerton is a retired Chartered Engineer

mostly angry

It is 1942

Peter Robinson