Before Dark: Collected Poems by Martin Anderson Guillaume Massieu insightful poems are full of

insightful poems are full of palpable aching [

never strays far from the sharp humour and eye for detail that her readers have come to expect

Alison Habens

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

always with the awareness that fear is our constant companion

Before Dark: Collected Poems by Martin Anderson Guillaume Massieu insightful poems are full ofBefore 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