The Best of British and Irish Poets 2016 - Softcover

Kelly Davio; Todd Swift

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908998555 ISBN 13: 9781908998552

Publisher: Eyewear Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Poetry. Edited by Todd Swift and Kelly Davio. The inaugural anthology of poems by fifty rising stars in the UK and Ireland, this volume gathers the work of the most important, interesting new poets working today.

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About the Author

Todd Swift was born in 1966 in Montreal, Canada but is now also British. He is the Director of Eyewear Publishing. Holding a PhD from the UEA, he has had nine full poetry collections of his work published in America, Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland. His tenth, out in his 50th year, is Madness and Love in Maida Vale. His poems have appeared for over 30 years in many international publications, including Blackbox Manifold, The Globe and Mail, Poetry, Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Prism International, The Fiddlehead, Matrix, and Best British Poetry 2014.



Kelly Davio is the poetry editor and co-publisher of Tahoma Literary Review, the Senior Poetry Editor of Eyewear Publishing, and the former Managing Editor of The Los Angeles Review. She is the author of the poetry collection Burn This House (Red Hen Press, 2013). A multiple Pushcart nominee, Davio has published poems in journals including Best New Poets, The Cincinnati Review, Gargoyle, Poetry Northwest, and others, and her nonfiction regularly appears in venues like The Toast, The Rumpus, The Nervous Breakdown, and Women's Review of Books. She writes the column 'The Waiting Room' for Change Seven Magazine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Eyewear Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908998555
• ISBN 13: 9781908998552
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130
• Editor: Swift, Todd