Darvill, Michael
Entry updated 26 October 2021. Tagged: Author.
(1937- ) UK painter, architect and author whose book-length narrative poem, Blessings from a Nuclear War (1987), carries with some metaphysical flourishing a figure named Adam (see Adam and Eve; Clichés) through the history of Homo sapiens on the planet, into the Near Future and an indistinctly described World War Three, which he survives. A new day dawns. [JC]
Michael Darvill
born London: 9 February 1937
works (highly selected)
- Blessings from a Nuclear War (London: East West Publications, 1987) [poem: illus/hb/Michael Darvill]
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