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.
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.
Niall Montgomery, eminent architect, poet, literary critic, translator, and artist, was born on 24 June 1915 in Dublin. Montgomery’s poetry is consciously modernist, with surrealist elements. He planned terminal 1: Arrivals at the end of his life, but died on 11 March 1987 before it could be published.
Poetry
64 Pages
ISBN: 9781989453056
June 2025
