Best British Poetry 2011, The - Softcover

Roddy Lumsden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907773045 ISBN 13: 9781907773044

Publisher: SALT PUBLISHING, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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Product Description:

RO60138510. THE BEST BRITISH POETRY 2011. 2011. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 163 pages. Annotations en page de titre (ex-dono).. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

Review:

Lumsden hosts a supremely eclectic party for 85 "new" British and Irish poets ― more women than men, for once ― whose newness turns on book-length debuts within the past 15 years rather than calendar age.

Author: Boyd Tonkin Source: The Independent

Identity Parade is an anthology which clearly achieves its objective of introducing its audience to a broad-church of today’s talent.

Author: Phil Brown Source: Hand + Star

I really enjoyed some poems in this anthology from writers I knew by name but had somehow bypassed. It’s certainly a positive introduction to contemporary writing in Britain – a far wider range of styles and schools (and both the famous and lesser known, both the established magazines and the new) than is customary in British publications.

Author: Rob A. Mackenzie Source: Surroundings

Salt Publishing and Roddy Lumsden have come up with a British parallel to the well established Best American Poetry Series overseen by David Lehman. The first editor is Lumsden himself, to be followed by Sasha Dugdale next year. While the initial volume is a largely mainstream selection (with, strangely, not a prose poem in sight), it possesses greater energy and range than the annual Forward Book of Poetry, as evidenced in poems by Gillian Allnutt, Amy De'Ath, and Chris McCabe, among others.

Author: Carrie Etter

[A]n excellent collection, imaginatively and fairly edited, making it easily one of the books that every reader of poetry wanting to know about new British and Irish poetry should own. I already look forward to the 2012 edition.

Author: Todd Swift Source: Eyewear

The Best British Poetry 2011, edited by Roddy Lumsden, is an anthology of meticulous compilation: after a year spent foraging in the various British literary magazines, Lumsden has gathered 70 poems―representing 70 poets. In a format openly indebted to The Best American Poetry series, each poet has in turn commented on their poem’s inception. Fundamental to the nature of this collection is the method of the editor; this is not an anthology of the most celebrated contemporary poets. Rather than being selected by virtue of reputation, each poet wins their place in this book by having a single good poem published in a magazine this year.

Author: Aime Williams Source: The Oxonian Review

For poets, this is a useful anthology because Lumsden's choices are drawn from a wide range of UK poetry magazines and each poem is labelled with the source. In the back there is a handy alphabetical list of quality poetry magazines with their contact details. If you want to submit to these magazines you can read the type of poem the editors approve of. You can also find which magazines you'd like to subscribe to, and let's not forget how much these journals need our support!

Author: Angela Topping Source: Stride Magazine

... what would do we learn about contemporary poetry from this collection? Well, first, the standard is high. All of the poems are at least competent; clearly there are very many people who devote their lives to the art of poetry, and this is borne out by the results on show here.

Author: Alan Baker Source: Stride Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: SALT PUBLISHING
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1907773045
• ISBN 13: 9781907773044
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240