The Collected Poems of Montagu Slater Michael Rosen Hédi Kaddour

Hédi Kaddour

past and present

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

and a poem from the book was also shortlisted for a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem

Imaginatively rhizomatic

The Collected Poems of Montagu Slater Michael Rosen Hédi KaddourMontagu 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