The Collected Poems of Montagu Slater Leanne O'Sullivan From an Athenian childhood to

From an Athenian childhood to a closeted adolescence in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic

and is an attempt to tell the story of this last tumultuous year

with whom he's grown up and then old

everything is out to eat you and nothing is really what it seems

The Collected Poems of Montagu Slater Leanne O'Sullivan From an Athenian childhood toMontagu Slater (19021956) is best known today as the librettist of Benjamin Brittens opera Peter Grimes (1945). But he was also a novelist, play wright, journalist, scriptwriter and a poet. A committed communist from the late 1920s, he was a leading figure in the cultural world of the mid century left, co founded Left Review in the 1930s and edited Theatre Today in the 1940s. He worked with Britten, John Grierson, WH Auden and Alberto Cavalcanti at