The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside Helen Burke while unveiling fascinating new discoveries

while unveiling fascinating new discoveries that give a more balanced understanding of both partners

along with new and unpublished works

followed by evocations of Northumberland by decadent gentry poet Algernon Charles Swinburne contrasting with grim tales of life down the pit by Tommy Armstrong and Joseph Skipsey in the 19th century

full-colour and poem-driven print magazines a year

With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer Robert Macfarlane and hand-painted illustration by Jackie Morris

The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside Helen Burke while unveiling fascinating new discoveriesThough we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who lived and wrote in it. At every significant turning point we find them, pen in hand, fingers poised at the typewriter, ready to distil the essence of the moment, from the muddy wastes of the Western front to the vast reckoning that came with the end of empire. This is the first and only history of twentieth century poetry, by the acclaimed poet,