Selected Poems

The Selected Poems of Nancy Cunard brings together published and previously unpublished poems written across four decades. From her early years as a coterie poet on the edges of Bloomsbury and avant-garde London, to her frontline activism in the Spanish Civil War, the fight against fascism and racism in Europe and America, to her late life precariously spent in sanatoriums and hospitals, this selection brings Cunard’s transnational modernist project to light through her experimental, passionate writing. 

Nancy Clara Cunard was a writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class and devoted much of her life to fighting racism and fascism. She became a muse to some of the 20th century’s most distinguished writers and artists, including Aldous Huxley and Ezra Pound. Sandeep Parmar received her PhD from University College London. She also edited Paris by Hope Mirrlees (Carcanet) and published a poetry collection, The Marble Orchard.