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Apocalypse
Apocalypse

Apocalypse

An Anthology

Edited by James Keery

POETRY

320 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5

Formats: Trade Paper, Mobipocket, EPUB, PDF

Trade Paper, $23.99 (US $23.99) (CA $31.99)

Publication Date: January 2021

ISBN 9781784108182

Rights: US, CA, NZ, CAM, SAM, CAR, PH, KR & FM

Carcanet Press, Ltd. (Jan 2021)
Carcanet Press Ltd.

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Overview

Shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2021.This first anthology of Apocalyptic or neoromantic poetry since the 1940s includes over 200 poets, many well known (Dylan Thomas, W.S. Graham, Ted Hughes), and others quite forgotten (Ernest Frost, Paul Potts). Over forty of the poets are women, of whom Edith Sitwell and Lynette Roberts are among the most exuberant. Much of the contents has never previously been anthologised; many poems are reprinted for the first time since the 1940s. The poetry of the Second World War appears in a new context, as do early poems by Philip Larkin, Denise Levertov and Geoffrey Hill. Here, readers can enjoy an overview of the visionary modernist British and Irish poetry of the mid-century, its antecedents and its aftermath. As a period style and as a body of work, Apocalyptic poetry will come as a revelation to most readers.

Author Biography

James Keery was born in Coleraine in 1958 and lives in Culcheth, near Warrington. He is married to Julie, with two children, Jennifer and Jack. He read English at Churchill College, Cambridge and has been teaching English in Wigan since 1980. He is the editor of an anthology of mid-century modernist poetry, entitled Apocalypse (Carcanet, 2019). He has published a collection of poems, That Stranger, The Blues (1996); edited the Collected Poems of Burns Singer (2001) and contributed to a number of recent magazines and books, including PN Review, Angel Exhaust, and Resounding Dylan Thomas.