Who are the English? Selected Poems 1935-81 Phillis Levin

Who are the English? Selected Poems 1935-81 Phillis LevinWho are the English? Selected Poems 1935 81 is a unique poetic record of British intellectual and political life from the high hopes of the Popular Front and the anti Fascist War through the long retreat of the Cold War to the nuclear arms race of the 1980s. It includes the Mass Declamations On Guard for Spain, Who are the English? Cry of Greece, and a remarkable series of letters in verse to Pablo Neruda, Tristan Tzara and the Soviet poet Nikolai

This history includes Emanuel Litvinoff’s famous attack on T

Known only as “The Machine” the device seems to transport Malthrop to different locations in space and time by feeding off his memories and a vast array of sentimental objects and trophies taken by Malthrop from his own past and that of his victims

their influence on British musicians

bright-voiced and strangely familiar

and is a former Offa’s Dyke Trail Officer

but already a quite polished writer

"In Daughter Jessie Lendennie writes with a spare grace and unsparing wisdom of the kind of dreams and nightmares that can never be outgrown

Becoming a soldier galvanised Lewis's writing

" - Zoë Fairbairns

a failed parliamentary candidate

Habib Selmi tells the engrossing tale of how he became a writer in a house of no books

Kops and Szirtes (another I was unaware was Jewish) - but space is not endless in a magazine