Arcadian Rustbelt PRE-ORDER Pablo Neruda  Financial Times

 Financial Times

To use language to make tangible changes in the material world

painfully well observed and beautifully alive

Baker interrogates these questions in sequences alive with vivid details

Arcadian Rustbelt PRE-ORDER Pablo Neruda  Financial TimesPublished July 2025. Available for pre order. This anthology is designed to answer a specific question: was there a second generation of alternative poetry in Britain, after the high tide of the Seventies? The inescapable context is poets reacting to Thatcherism. Much of the country was turning into rustbelt. But the enforced leisure could create space in which new art could be made. The design involves a series of anthologies of the Alternative