Born in Hampshire in 1918, Martin Bell was the leading member of
the 'lost generation' of English poets whose careers were
interrupted by the War. He was a prominent member of The Group
during the fifties, and a major influence on younger poets like
Peter Redgrove and Peter Porter. His poetry reached a wide audience
during the sixties through Penguin Modern Poets, and in 1967 he
published his Collected Poems,1937-1966, his first and last book.
Bell was also a champion and brilliant translator of French
Surrealist poets. He died in poverty in Leeds in 1978. Like other
'provincial' working-class contemporaries, Bell wrote fantastical,
highly erudite, biting, belligerent poetry. And yet - as Philip
Hobsbaum said - he also wrote 'some of the most delicate love poems
of our time' as well as 'one of the major war poems in the
language'. A. Alvarez called him 'an emotional tightrope walker...
He writes a rather bitter, tensely colloquial verse based, it
seems, on a radical dislike for both himself and pretty much
everything else.'
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