William Plomer: Selected Poems, edited by Neilson Mackay John Agard yet what they conceal is

yet what they conceal is part of what they want to say

’ – Frances Leviston

She is increasingly known for her sweeping and incisive long poems and book-length projects

twenty-five years on

Matt Merritt

William Plomer: Selected Poems, edited by Neilson Mackay John Agard yet what they conceal isBy turns lyrical, amatory, satirical and dramatic, William Plomer addresses his favourite subjects Africa, the divided self, aesthetic pleasure, the macabre and the absurd with a formal assurance, bleak wit and urgency of feeling. This rich and thorough selection presents, for the first time in almost fifty years, Plomer? s best. "Neilson MacKay has performed a welcome rescue operation on the unjustly forgotten William Plomer, novelist, librettist,