Edited by Joseph LaBine
Architect, Dubliner, artist, and autodidact Niall Montgomery was also a poet. terminal 1: Arrivals is the first selection of Montgomery’s poetry to appear in book form. Uncompromising in their polyvocality and rejection of censorship, Montgomery's long poems were a remarkable success in modernist circles and represent a watershed moment in the history of twentieth-century Irish verse. The striking pops and bangs of his jazz-infused poetry anticipate elements of the Beats and sound installations by later twentieth-century avant-garde artists. This volume collects early pieces that blazed their way into the little magazines of the 1930s and '40s but have yet to receive proper critical appreciation.