The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside Enitharmon What won’t a poem do

What won’t a poem do to get to the other side

and publisher: all in all

and Jo Cox

but necessary for survival

a slow-worm’s narrow skull or the hand-clasp of an orang-utan

The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside Enitharmon What won’t a poem doThough we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who lived and wrote in it. At every significant turning point we find them, pen in hand, fingers poised at the typewriter, ready to distil the essence of the moment, from the muddy wastes of the Western front to the vast reckoning that came with the end of empire. This is the first and only history of twentieth century poetry, by the acclaimed poet,