by James Keery (Editor)
An exploratory anthology of the eclipsed, neglected - and indeed notorious - 'Apocalyptic' poetry of the 1940s, featuring the work of over 150 poets.
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.