Before Dark: Collected Poems by Martin Anderson Guillaume Massieu always with the awareness that

always with the awareness that fear is our constant companion

With profound moments and a cumulative power

the new collection from Michael Symmons Roberts

‘This is a collection packed with rewarding poetry to be read and re-read with new gems to uncover each time

in words from the Poetry Book Society Bulletin: ‘Cooke’s lyrical insight and precision make the personal universal

Before Dark: Collected Poems by Martin Anderson Guillaume Massieu always with the awareness thatBefore Dark: Collected Poems reflects Anderson's peripatetic lifestyle of three decades. During a weekend in Paris in 1971, whilst teaching at the University of Grenoble, he met T. T. Wong, a young Chinese artist from Shanghai, and their long discussions cemented his aspiration to go East. English society had, he felt, since he was born into it shortly after the end of World War II, succeeded only in submerging his nose in the effluvium of a squalid