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William Plomer: Selected Poems, edited by Neilson Mackay Valley Press Other modern and contemporary poetsBy turns lyrical, amatory, satirical and dramatic, William Plomer addresses his favourite subjects Africa, the divided self, aesthetic pleasure, the macabre and the absurd with a formal assurance, bleak wit and urgency of feeling. This rich and thorough selection presents, for the first time in almost fifty years, Plomer? s best. "Neilson MacKay has performed a welcome rescue operation on the unjustly forgotten William Plomer, novelist, librettist,