The Collected Poems of Montagu Slater Michael Rosen the inside track on Howell’s

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past and present

Imaginatively rhizomatic

‘Rich with anecdotes and one man’s observations on the music he loves

Meanwhile the fearsome Boxer warriors – said by some to be bulletproof – are spilling in from the provinces

The Collected Poems of Montagu Slater Michael Rosen the inside track on Howell’sMontagu Slater (1902 1956) is best known today as the librettist of Benjamin Brittens opera Peter Grimes (1945). But he was also a novelist, playwright, journalist, scriptwriter and a poet. A committed communist from the late 1920s, he was a leading figure in the cultural world of the mid century left, and co founded and edited Left Review in the 1930s and was theatre editor of Our Time in the 1940s. He worked with Britten, John Grierson, W. H. Auden