William Plomer: Selected Poems, edited by Neilson Mackay John Agard or stumbling from a bar

or stumbling from a bar ‘like a monkey in the jungle of traffic

’ – Frances Leviston

one of two key journals which championed the intellectual and literary movement against the US-backed military dictatorships of Park Chung Hee and Chun Doo Hwan in the 1970s and 80s

yet what they conceal is part of what they want to say

William Plomer: Selected Poems, edited by Neilson Mackay John Agard or stumbling from a barBy 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,