The Selected Poems Of Clive Branson Av Clive Branson

<p>Clive Branson (1907-1944) was born in Ahmednagar, India, the son of a major in the Indian army. He studied at the Slade School of Art and exhibited at the Royal Academy when he was just 23.<strong> </strong>Five of his paintings are today in the Tate. His daughter is the painter Rosa Branson.</p><p><i>The Selected Poems of Clive Branson</i> brings together, for the first time, the best of his surviving poetry. Passionate and committed, it’s a first-hand account of the most violent years of the twentieth-century – Britain in the Slump, Spain during the civil-war, Fascist prisons, the London Blitz, the cultural shock of India and its poverty, the war against Japan – recorded with a painterly eye and a communist faith in the power of the people.</p><p></p>