Just wanted to big up this, from Peter Riley, which is a pdf of 10 npublished poems by Nicholas Moore, a nearly forgotten poet of the '40's who stopped writing in the '50's and didn't start again until the late '60's:
http://www.aprileye.co.uk/TheOrangeBed.pdf
They have something of the linguistic brio of Wallace Stephens, with a very English obsession with the detective story.
What Peter Riley has done to keep the memory of this poet alive is remarkable, and I applaud him for it. The '40's are a neglected era in British poetry, where there was a lot more experimentation and openness to ideas and influence from both America and Europe than the traumatised '50's poets would have us believe. Where Larkin closed up, poets like Nicholas Moore opened up.
JESUS OF NAZARETH AND THE FRENCH TURN TO GOD
2 weeks ago
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A great discovery. I've never seen a series of poems all with the same title before :)
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