The best British poetry, 2011
By: Roddy Lumsden, series editor
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781907773044
Subjects: Literary collections; English poetry
Description: "The Best British Poetry 2011" 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. The format of the book will be familiar to those who have seen similar annual selections made in other countries such as Ireland, Australia and especially the US, where the equivalent annual book is a popular yet controversial landmark in each year's literary calendar. At a time when print journals still retain their significance and popularity and when new sites are flourishing on the web, this book offers a snapshot of current poetry practices in the country by offering a diverse selection of excellent poems.
Table of contents: title: In her kitchen / Gillian Allnutt; title: Satin moth / Mike Bannister; title: Boast of the fly-whisk / Chris Beckett; title: Sweet Arlene / Emily Berry; title: Lanterns / Nina Boyd; title: Opiates: Kaliningrad / James Brookes; title: The helicopter visions / Judy Brown; title: Twelve steps towards better despair / Mark Burnhope; title: Andrew's corner / Kayo Chingonyi; title: Music / Jame Commane; title: The rose of Toulouse / Fred D'Aguiar; title: 17 / Emma Danes; title: Lena at the beach / Amy De'Ath; title: A beautifully constructed coctail / Isobel Dixon; title: Shepherds / Sasha Dugdale; title: Jericho Shandy / Ian Duhig; title: 78 rpm / Josh Ekroy; title: White lace nightgown / Laura Elliott; title: Prairie / Carrie Etter; title: Poolside at Le Domaine / Dai George; title: Waves / Giles Goodland; title: Young pterodactyl / Matthew Gregory; title: Later / Philip Gross; title: A butterfly in the British Museum / Kelly Grovier; title: The ambition / Jen Hadfield; title: Hitodama, or Human soul / Aiko Harman; title: Valediction / Emily Hasler; title: Sonnet / Oli Hazzard; title: from Errant / W.N. Herbert; title: Deil tak the hinmaist / Alexander Hutchison; title: Light over Ratcliffe / Sarah Jackson; title: The retired eunuch / Christopher James; title: Hennecker's ditch / Katharine Kilalea; title: Collusion / Nick Laird; title: Coal End Hill Farm 1962 / Pippa Little; title: Kingfisher / Chris McCabe; title: Beverly Downs / Ted McCarthy; title: Sleeping hermaphrodite / John McCullough; title: House clearance / Patrick McGuinness; title: My life as a B movie / Kona Macphee; title: And then there will be no more nonsense / Lorraine Mariner; title: Of other spaces (Tate St. Ives) / Sophie Mayer; title: Rats / Gordon Meade; title: Pluvialis / Matt Merritt; title: The apple farmers' calendar / Kate Miller; title: Short-hold / Esther Morgan; title: Delicacy / Catherine Ormell; title: Logo / Richard Osmond; title: Only here on earth / Ruth Padel; title: California / Emma Page; title: Lapse / Nii Ayikwei Parkes; title: Hare / Abigail Parry; title: 10 x 10 / Andrew Philip; title: At first, the only concern is milk, more or less / Heather Phillipson; title: Three wishes / Kate Potts; title: Anti-circ / Vidyan Ravinthiran; title: from The songs of Elisabeth So / Deryn Rees-Jones; title: Honeymoon / Sam Riviere; title: Orpheus / Colette Sensier; title: The year strikes the rock / Penelope Shuttle; title: Mustard / Jon Stone; title: Communiqué / Matthew Sweeney; title: Some sayings about the snake / George Szirtes; title: Scart Gap / Lizzi Thistlethwayte; title: The long horizon / Eoghan Walls; title: Hasard / Ahren Warner; title: Sheep / Chrissy Williams; title: Table manners / Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch; title: On a Persian cairn / Michael Zand; title: Contributors' notes & comments.