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One of Britain's greatest living contemporary dramatists, Edward Bond is widely studied by schools and colleges. Bond's poems are an integral part of his creative work and are often intended to accompany his plays.
Author of such controversial and influential plays as Saved, Lear, The Woman, Human Cannon and The War Plays, Edward Bond's deeply held convictions about culture, society and morality burn searingly through his work. Many of these ideas resurface incisively and provocatively in this, his second volume of poems. A major section deals with Nuclear holocaust which, in the writer's words "is the only subject - directly or by reflection - for art. Art engages (within the artist's limitations) its spectators in such a way that they wish - or (frankly) are forced - to recreate themselves in experiencing it: they can only experience it by judging it...The standards by which we judge art are those by which we live. Art either liberates or imperils." (Edward Bond)
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About Edward Bond After leaving school early and working in various dead-end jobs, Edward Bond began to write for the theatre. In 1965 his grim portrait of urban violence, Saved, in which a baby is stoned in its pram, aroused much admiration as well as a ban from the Lord Chamberlain. His provocative plays [including Early Morning (1969), Lear (1971), The Sea (1973), The Fool (1975), Restoration (1981), Summer (1982), The War Plays (1985) and Olly's Prison (1992)] continue to arouse extreme responses from critics and audiences.
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