The Magic Theatre by James Harpur futurist captured in poems of such

captured in poems of such exuberance and transformative energy you feel you are also running through the border

His second collection

Dylan Thomas Prize

Uruk’s Anthem

‘Decadence’) and the flowering of his late style

The Magic Theatre by James Harpur futurist captured in poems of such976: just as the Sex Pistols are about to release 'Anarchy in the U. K.', James Harpur arrives at Trinity College, Cambridge, to read Classics. As if stepping onstage in the strangest of theatres, he finds himself acting in a play without knowing what his part is to be. Changing to study English, the poet finds an education in unlikely places: a broken love affair; excruciating meetings with professors (and his father); initiations into Brahms and