In Darkest Capital: The Collected Poems of Drew Milne 2016 James Kirkup

James Kirkup

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One of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English

with ten collections to his name

In Darkest Capital: The Collected Poems of Drew Milne 2016 James KirkupIn Darkest Capital gathers all of Drew Milnes poems up to 2017, including two major uncollected sequences, Blueprints & Ziggurats and Lichens for Marxists. A Scottish poet working out of the modernist avant garde, through pop and art rock, Milne moves between Beckett and Brecht, through punk and beyond. Along the way there are homages to Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Frank OHara, Kurt Schwitters, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Cage and Tom