The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain And Ireland Since 1945 - Softcover

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9780670883257: The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain And Ireland Since 1945

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0670883255 ISBN 13: 9780670883257

Publisher: Viking, 1998

This is the first major anthology published which surveys poetry from Britain and Ireland published in the half-century since the Second World War. The poest run from Edwin Muir (b.1887) to Kate Clanchy (b.1965), and inc. the American-born T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath and the Austrialian-born Peter Porter, but all the poems were written after the War and in the British Isles. There are famous poets, poets with just one book, academically respectable poets and performance poets - all representingthe tremendous vitality and diversity of Post-War poetry from these islands.

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About the Author:

Simon Armitage was born in 1963 and lives near Huddersfield. His first book of poems ZOOM! was published in 1989. He presents Radio 4's Stanza programme and in 1994 was named Sunday Times Writer of the Year.
Robert Crawford was born in 1959. He has published a number of books of poetry and criticism, and is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St. Andrews.

Synopsis:

An anthology of poetry published in Britain and England in the half-century since World War II. Poets include Edwin Muir, Kate Clanchy and the American-born T.S Eliot and Sylvia Plath.

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