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Nancy Cunard’s poems remain passionate odes to the causes the bohemian heiress fought for, writes Martin Green
THE poetry of Nancy Cunard is principally of interest because of who she was and the life she lived. An heiress of the Cunard shipping family, she was introduced to the literary and bohemian world of London in the 1920s, meeting such figures as Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound.
Being slim, gorgeous and rich, many men fell in love with her. Though she never had a relationship that lasted more than a couple of years she did have a brief marriage to a wealthy young man.
Of her publications, the two best remembered were Negro: An Anthology, a collection of poems by black American poets, and her edited edition of Authors Take Sides on the Spanish Civil War which she collected with the communist poet Randall Swingler, both of which reflect the two causes she was interested to promote, that of the black descendants of slaves and the socialist Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War.
Nancy Cunard spent some time in Paris, where she had an affair with the French writer Louis Aragon, later buying a house in Normandy, where she and Aragon bought a printing press and published work by Richard Aldington, Roy Campbell, Robert Graves, George Moore, Ezra Pound, Laura Riding and the young Samuel Beckett. Later she had an affair with black jazz musician Henry Crowder.
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