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Selected Poems of Nancy Cunard Nancy  Cunard was a poet, publisher, journalist and political activist. Born on 10 March 1896 in Nevill Holt, Leicestershire, Nancy was the great-granddaughter of shipping magnate Sir Samuel Cunard and the only child of Sir Bache and Lady Maud (Emerald) Cunard. Raised amid wealth and privilege, she began writing poetry during World War i and later authored two poetry collections, Outlaws (1921) and Sublunary (1923), as well as numerous chapbooks. As founder and editor of the Hours Press in La Chapelle-Réanville, France, Cunard was responsible for the appearance of major works by Modern writers including Samuel Beckett, Ezra Pound, and George Moore. In the 1930s she embarked on a life-long advocacy of political and social movements. During the Spanish Civil War and World War ii , Cunard enlisted in the moral cause against Fascism and anti-imperialism, producing pamphlets in support of resistance movements and writing eye-witness reports for newspapers in the UK and the US. Following a relationship with the African American Jazz musician Henry Crowder, Cunard was essentially disinherited by her mother and spent the final decades of her life tirelessly advocating for her two great passions, poetry and social justice. Following a period of physical and mental breakdown, on 16 March 1965 she died alone in an open ward of the Hôpital Cochin, Paris. Sandeep Parmar is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Liverpool. She is the author of the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees (2011) and Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies: Myth of the Modern Woman (2014), a critical study of the modernist writer Mina Loy’s literary archive. She has authored two books of poetry, The Marble Orchard (2012) and Eidolon (2015).
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FyfieldBooks aim to make available some of the great classics of British and European literature in clear, affordable formats, and to restore often neglected writers to their place in literary tradition. FyfieldBooks take their name from the Fyfield elm in Matthew Arnold’s ‘Scholar Gypsy’ and ‘Thyrsis’. The tree stood not far from the village where the series was originally devised in 1971. Roam on! The light we sought is shining still. Dost thou ask proof ? Our tree yet crowns the hill, Our Scholar travels yet the loved hill-side from ‘Thyrsis’

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FyfieldBooks aim to make available some of the great classics of British and European literature in clear, affordable formats, and to restore often neglected writers to their place in literary tradition. FyfieldBooks take their name from the Fyfield elm in Matthew Arnold’s ‘Scholar Gypsy’ and ‘Thyrsis’. The tree stood not far from the village where the series was originally devised in 1971.

Roam on! The light we sought is shining still. Dost thou ask proof ? Our tree yet crowns the hill, Our Scholar travels yet the loved hill-side from ‘Thyrsis’

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