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On the Thirteenth Stroke of Midnight

English

By (author): Michel Remy

This book, the first published anthology of British surrealist poetry, takes its title from Herbert Read's words when he opened the Surrealist Poems and Objects exhibition at the London Gallery at midnight on 24 November 1937. Within a few years the Second World War would effectively fragment the British surrealist movement, dispersing its key members and leaving the surrealist flame flickering only in isolated moments and places. Yet British surrealist writing was vibrant and, at its best, durable, and now takes its place in the wider European context of literary surrealism. On the Thirteenth Stroke of Midnight includes work by Emmy Bridgwater, Jacques B. Brunius, Ithell Colquhoun, Hugh Sykes Davies, Toni del Renzio, Anthony Earnshaw, David Gascoyne, Humphrey Jennings, Sheila Legge, Len Lye, Conroy Maddox, Reuben Mednikoff, George Melly, E.L.T. Mesens, Desmond Morris, Grace Pailthorpe, Roland Penrose, Edith Rimmington, Roger Roughton, Simon Watson Taylor and John W. Welson. Many of the poems are published here for the first time. The book also reproduces key manifestos produced by the British surrealists, and includes illuminating introductory essays, a detailed chronology, biographical notes on the writers, and a bibliography. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Bridgwater, Colquhoun, Earnshaw, Maddox, Morris, Rimmington and Welson, this anthology is a fascinating record of a neglected strand of British poetry from the 1930s to the 1980s. British surrealist writing is at last given a chance to voice its subversion. See more
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Product Details
  • Publication Date: 31 Oct 2013
  • Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781847771094

About Michel Remy

Michel Remy is Professor of English Literature and Art History at the University of Nice and the leading authority on British Surrealism. He has published four books and over fifty articles on the subject. On the Thirteenth Stroke of Midnight: An Anthology of Surrealist Poetry in Britain can be considered as a companion volume to his Surrealism in Britain (Lund Humphries, 2001), the first comprehensive study of the movement and its achievements.

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