George Macbeth (Vol. 2) - MacBeth, George 1932–
MacBeth, George 1932–
An inventive and original Scottish poet, MacBeth is the author of The Colour of Blood and The Night of Stones. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 25-28.)
MacBeth is an extraordinary phenomenon, but his real 'presence' as a poet rather than a performer has yet to be demonstrated—he is the Unidentified Flying Object of British verse. He has written, for instance, a poem called 'Scissor-Man' in which, according to his note, 'a jealous pair of scissors complains about the racial prejudice which has prevented it from obtaining its rights in the way of housing, and which still interferes with its love-affairs.'…
MacBeth's mixture of grotesque humour and grisly seriousness with a buoyantly active style is a welcome addition in British poetry and cannot but have a liberating effect. His dead-serious poems, on themes involving the horror of war, the meaning of Eichmann, private suffering—all, once...
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