SELECTED POEMS

Selected Poems gathers writing from four decades of  Nancy Cunards life, some published here for the first time. The selection illuminates Cunards transnational modernist project in full, from her early years as a coterie poet on the edges of Bloomsbury and avant-garde London, to her frontline activism during the Spanish Civil War and life-long fight against fascism in Europe and America, to her final years documented in poems written from hospitals and sanatoriums. Among the poems is Cunards longer, psychogeographical work Parallax, published originally by the Hogarth Press, a response in part to T. S. Eliots The Waste Land. Through her introduction and notes, editor Sandeep Parmar frames Cunards complex legacy as a poet, publisher, and activist. A contribution to the wider feminist revision of modernism, this volume draws attention to Cunards extraordinary, prismatic oeuvre, shaped by some of the twentieth centurys most dramatic events. One of the major phenomena of history. William Carlos Williams. A bold heroine of the battle against the inexpressible Ramón J. Sender