The Best British Poetry 2011

Gillian Allnutt, Mike Bannister, Chris Beckett, Liz Berry, Nina Boyd, Judy Brown, Mark Burnhope, Kayo Chingonyi, Jane Commane, Fred Dā Aguiar, Emma Danes, Amy Deā Ath, Isobel Dixon, Sasha Dugdale, Ian Duhig, Josh Ekroy, Laura Elliott, Carrie Etter, Dai George, Mr Giles Goodland, Matthew Gregory, Philip Gross, Kelly Grovier, Aiko Harman, Emily Hasler, Oli Hazzard, W. N. Herbert, Dr Alexander Hutchison, Sarah Jackson, Chris James, Kate Kilalea, Nick Laird, Pippa Little, Kona Macphee, Lorraine Mari

ISBN 10: 1907773045 / ISBN 13: 9781907773044

Editore: Salt 15/09/2011, 2011

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• Titolo: The Best British Poetry 2011
• Editore: Salt 15/09/2011
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1907773045
• ISBN 13: 9781907773044
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

Presents the finest and most engaging poems found in British-based literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK poetry, including lyric, formal and experimental poetry. Each poem is accompanied by a note by the poet themselves, explaining the inspiration for the poem and why they decided to write the poem in that form.

Informazioni sugli autori

Roddy Lumsden (born 1966) is a Scottish poet, who was born in St Andrews. He has published five collections of poetry, a number of chapbooks and a collection of trivia, as well as editing a generational anthology of British and Irish poets of the 1990s and 2000s, Identity Parade. He lives in London where he teaches for The Poetry School. He died in January 2020.

Mark Burnhope was born in 1982 and studied at London School of Theology before completing an MA in Creative Writing at Brunel University. His work has appeared in a variety of print and online publications. He currently lives and writes in Bournemouth, Dorset with his partner, four stepchildren, two geckos and a greyhound. This is his first book of poetry.

Kayo Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987 and came to the UK in 1993. His poems have been published in a range of magazines and anthologies including The Best British Poetry 2011 and The Salt Book Of Younger Poets. He also travels regularly across the UK, and internationally, to give readings. His work has been described as ‘full of contrast, deftly managed with a buoyant and musical hand’ (Poetry International Web)

Amy De’Ath was born in Suffolk in 1985. She studied at the University of East Anglia and in Philadelphia, US, before moving to Australia and then to London. Her poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals in the UK and US and will feature in the Salt Younger Poets 2011 anthology. She currently lives and works in London. This is her first book of poems.

Isobel Dixon has been described by Clive James as being ‘born with the gift of lyricism as natural speech’ and by J M Coetzee as ‘a poet confident in her mastery of her medium.’ Her poems have appeared in publications like The Paris Review, The Guardian, Penguin’s Poems for Love and The Forward Book of Poetry. Salt published A Fold in the Map in 2007. www.isobeldixon.com