News That Stays News: The Twentieth Century in Poems

by Simon Rae

With a contemporary poem chosen for each year from 1900 to 1999, this centenary anthology adds up to an intimate, provocative and surprising report on the often violent impact of modern life.

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

Simon Rae is a British poet, broadcaster, biographer and playwright who runs the Top Edge Productions theatre company. He won the Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition in 1999 and has also been awarded an Eric Gregory Award and a Southern Arts Literature Bursary and held Royal Literary Fund fellowships at Oxford Brookes and Warwick Universities. His play Grass won a Fringe Highlight award in 2002.

Reviews

[Solomon Clarke · Rating 1 out of 5]

There are some nice poems in this book, but I will give 1 star to any author that collaborates with a genocide apologist like Niall Ferguson.
This book praises Niall Ferguson and suggests his work for further reading.