William Plomer: Selected Poems, edited by Neilson Mackay Valley Press polemicist and activist

polemicist and activist

both written after the fall of the Iron Curtain while Blandiana was actively and selflessly involved in the public sphere as President of the Civic Alliance (1990-2001)

Rodney Pybus

as a combination of sadness and courage

‘Clarke has found rich pickings in the landfill

William Plomer: Selected Poems, edited by Neilson Mackay Valley Press polemicist and activistBy 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,