The Collected Poems of Montagu Slater Linda Black Along the way it takes

Along the way it takes in fossil-finders – like the pioneering Mary Anning – T-Rex’s gym routine

at the other

woman and mother at once

I am not sure I really care about Világos anymore

and the religious desire for ‘refuge’ or ‘higher things’

The Collected Poems of Montagu Slater Linda Black Along the way it takesMontagu Slater (19021956) is best known today as the librettist of Benjamin Brittens opera Peter Grimes (1945). But he was also a novelist, play wright, 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, co founded Left Review in the 1930s and edited Theatre Today in the 1940s. He worked with Britten, John Grierson, WH Auden and Alberto Cavalcanti at