In Darkest Capital: The Collected Poems of Drew Milne Helen Burke ‘if any contemporary poet can

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In Darkest Capital: The Collected Poems of Drew Milne Helen Burke ‘if any contemporary poet canIn Darkest Capital gathers all of Drew Milnes poems up to 2017, including two major uncollected sequences, Blueprints & Ziggurats and Lichens for Marxists. A Scottish poet working out of the modernist avant garde, through pop and art rock, Milne moves between Beckett and Brecht, through punk and beyond. Along the way there are homages to Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Frank OHara, Kurt Schwitters, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Cage and Tom