The young poets of the early Nineteen Forties, part of the Neo-Romantic movement, seemed to be obsessed with ghosts, haunted gardens, numinous or uncanny landscape, visions of apocalypse.
A key figure was Wrey Gardiner, the editor of Poetry Quarterly and publisher at The Grey Walls Press, whose journals capture the atmosphere of that hectic, uncertain time.
This essay explores some of the raffish characters who wrote, drank, smoked and argued in Soho and Holborn during that period.
(Mark Valentine)
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