Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. Edited by Nicholas Johnson. This posthumous assemblage of material was composed by the gifted British writer between 1929 and 1990, additional fulfillment of the hopes of Hugh MacDairmid, who said of him in 1932, the most promosing (if not the only) 'modernist' poet amongst us. In addition to the opportunity to read all of his poetry found to date, for this book appends seven prior publications of his poems, it introduces The Revue Sketches, which were composed during the 1940s and 1950s and were performed in revue at the Players Theatre in Villiers Street, London. Readers of that first volume, Poems, will remember Rafferty suggesting `five or six of the music hall pieces being chosen for press, but not specifiying which ones. The review sketches here are a further selection from that repertoire. The two final sketches obviously share the same stable as poems born out of The Duke of York - Nicolas Johnson, from the Afterword.
