By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
In mid-twentieth-century Britain, there was a whole literary movement devoted to the end of the world: the Apocalypse Poets were a group of British writers inspired by Surrealism, and their work is awash with nightmarish images of war and chaos. But poets ranging far and wide have addressed the idea of apocalypse or the end of the world. Here are some of the very best apocalyptic poems.