The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside Jenny Lewis William Bedford’s The Dancers of

William Bedford’s The Dancers of Colbek explores his own early years among the market towns and seacoasts of Lincolnshire

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material images of our world

these are poems that pay tribute to all the places that house the stories we treasure

The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside Jenny Lewis William Bedford’s The Dancers ofThough 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,