Arcadian Rustbelt PRE-ORDER Pablo Neruda  Financial Times

 Financial Times

to swerve in and say it

armpit scratching

Baker interrogates these questions in sequences alive with vivid details

kindles fierce little fires that might galvanize a pale beast to life or burn down whatever house has wronged her

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