Poems 1918-21, Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos

The volume gathers a poet’s most daring works from the years just after the First World War, when literary boundaries were being ripped apart and rebuilt. Across a series of vivid cantos and portrait poems, the writer fuses ancient Greek and Roman myth with the frantic pulse of modern city life. The language snaps, rolls and repeats, echoing the rhythms of a broken yet hopeful world. Listeners will feel the clash of classical allusion and contemporary urgency.

The poems move between whispered reverence for antiquity and sharp, sometimes sarcastic, commentary on today’s culture, inviting you to hear familiar legends spoken in a new, unmistakably modern voice. Each piece is a compact journey—half lecture, half incantation—that rewards attentive ears with fresh insights into love, power, and the restless search for meaning. As an audio experience, the work’s lyrical intensity and rhythmic daring come alive, making the listener feel like a participant in a living, breathing literary experiment.