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Presenting a wide-ranging and inclusive selection of 20th century work, this anthology features over 450 poems by 125 poets, beginning with Thomas Hardy and Gerard Manley Hopkins and ending with Catherine Walsh and Helen Macdonald. Offering ample selections from canonical poets including Edward Thomas, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, D.H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas, W.H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney, this extensive collection also presents work from many poets who have not previously been included in this type of anthology. It covers many groups and movements - from the Georgians to the poets of the New Apocalypse, and the Auden group and from the Movement to the New Generation. It pays special attention to the neglected modernist traditions in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and also includes work from post-1945 black British poets and a range of post-1960 avant-garde poetry from Britain and Ireland.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #3725848 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 976 pages

Review
. . .[L]ike a large rock thrown into a hitherto quiet pond. I can’t think of a better anthology. . . -- Tony Frazer, _Chicago Review_ 47.3 (2001)

Against Coupling by Karen Fleur Adcock
The Ex-queen Among The Astronomers by Karen Fleur Adcock
Leaving The Tate by Karen Fleur Adcock
And If by Moniza Alvi
Grand Hotel by Moniza Alvi
The Wedding by Moniza Alvi
1966 Version by Wystan Hugh Auden
At The Grave Of Henry James by Wystan Hugh Auden
'bones Wrenched, Weak Whimper, Lids Wrinkled...' by Wystan Hugh Auden
A Bride In The 30's by Wystan Hugh Auden
A Bride In The 30's by Wystan Hugh Auden
Consider by Wystan Hugh Auden
Consider This And In Our Time by Wystan Hugh Auden
Horae Canonicae: 4. Nones by Wystan Hugh Auden
Horae Canonicae: 4. Nones by Wystan Hugh Auden
In Memory Of Sigmund Freud by Wystan Hugh Auden
In Memory Of Sigmund Freud by Wystan Hugh Auden
In Memory Of W. B. Yeats by Wystan Hugh Auden
In Memory Of W.b. Yeats (1966 Version) by Wystan Hugh Auden
In Praise Of Limestone by Wystan Hugh Auden
In Praise Of Limestone by Wystan Hugh Auden
Musee Des Beaux Arts by Wystan Hugh Auden
Musee Des Beaux Arts by Wystan Hugh Auden
No Time by Wystan Hugh Auden
No Time by Wystan Hugh Auden
Ode To Terminus by Wystan Hugh Auden
Ode To Terminus by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Secret Agent by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Secret Agent by Wystan Hugh Auden
September 1, 1939 by Wystan Hugh Auden
September 1, 1939 by Wystan Hugh Auden
Sonnets From China: 6 by Wystan Hugh Auden
Sonnets From China: 6 by Wystan Hugh Auden
Sonnets From China: 7 by Wystan Hugh Auden
Sonnets From China: 7 by Wystan Hugh Auden
Spain by Wystan Hugh Auden
Spain - 1937 by Wystan Hugh Auden
Sprinkler On The Lawn: (b) by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Watershed by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Watershed by Wystan Hugh Auden
Enueg 2 by Samuel Beckett
Enueg: 1 by Samuel Beckett
Enueg: 2 by Samuel Beckett
Ooftish by Samuel Beckett
Ooftish by Samuel Beckett
Bird Appeal by Asa Benveniste
Bird Appeal by Asa Benveniste
Blue Crepe by Asa Benveniste
Blue Crepe by Asa Benveniste
First Words by Asa Benveniste
First Words by Asa Benveniste
Georgie by Asa Benveniste
Georgie by Asa Benveniste
Les Jets De La Poupee by Caroline Bergvall
From Lucy: Englan A University by James Berry
From Lucy: Englan A University by James Berry
Letter To My Father From London by James Berry
Letter To My Father From London by James Berry
Letter To My Father From London by James Berry
Listen. This Is The Noise Of Myth by Eavan Boland
Outside History: 9. In Exile by Eavan Boland
The Woman Turns Herself Into A Fish by Eavan Boland
Cherry Tree Garden by Jean Binta Breeze
Riddym Ravings: The Mad Woman's Poem by Jean Binta Breeze
Briggflatts: 1 by Basil Bunting
Briggflatts: Coda by Basil Bunting
First Book Of Odes: 15 by Basil Bunting
First Book Of Odes: 17 by Basil Bunting
First Book Of Odes: 28. by Basil Bunting
First Book Of Odes: 3. by Basil Bunting
First Book Of Odes: 30. The Orotava Road by Basil Bunting
First Book Of Odes: 8 by Basil Bunting
Second Book Of Odes: 11 by Basil Bunting
Second Book Of Odes: 12 by Basil Bunting
Corfe by Mary Butts
The Stumbling Block Its Index by Brian Catling
Stranger by Chris Cheek
Forget Me Not by Austin Clarke
Alevin Bars Causapscal by Bob Cobbing
Alevin Bars Causapscal by Bob Cobbing
Lion Lenin Leonora by Bob Cobbing
Lion Lenin Leonora by Bob Cobbing
Wan Do Tree by Bob Cobbing
Wan Do Tree by Bob Cobbing
Advent, Sels. by Brian Coffey
Advent: 1 by Brian Coffey
Headrock by Brian Coffey
Headrock by Brian Coffey
The Veil Poem by Andrew Crozier
Parallax, Sels. by Nancy Cunard
Coolie Odyssey (for Ma, D. 1985) by David Dabydeen
Turner: 1 by David Dabydeen
Turner: 18 by David Dabydeen
Turner: 2 by David Dabydeen
Turner: 20 by David Dabydeen
Turner: 24 by David Dabydeen
Turner: 25 by David Dabydeen
Children Of Wealth In Your Warm Nursery by Elizabeth Daryush
News-reel by Elizabeth Daryush
Still-life by Elizabeth Daryush
A Conditioned Air by Donald Davie
A Conditioned Air by Donald Davie
Hearing Russian Spoken by Donald Davie
Hearing Russian Spoken by Donald Davie
Inditing A Good Matter by Donald Davie
Out Of East Anglia by Donald Davie
Out Of East Anglia by Donald Davie
Rejoinder To A Critic by Donald Davie
Rejoinder To A Critic by Donald Davie
Rodez by Donald Davie
Rodez by Donald Davie
The Listeners by Walter John De La Mare
The Old Summerhouse by Walter John De La Mare
The Other by Walter John De La Mare
Lough Derg by Denis Devlin
Lough Derg by Denis Devlin
Obstacle Basilisk by Denis Devlin
Obstacle Basilisk by Denis Devlin
Aristocrats by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Aristocrats (2) by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Cairo Jag by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Cairo Jag by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Dead Men by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Dead Men by Keith Castellaine Douglas
How To Kill by Keith Castellaine Douglas
How To Kill by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Mersa by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Mersa by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Remember Me by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Simplify Me When I'm Dead by Keith Castellaine Douglas
These Grasses, Ancient Enemies by Keith Castellaine Douglas
These Grasses, Ancient Enemies by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Vergissmeinnicht by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Vergissmeinnicht by Keith Castellaine Douglas
And How Are We Today? by Carol Ann Duffy
Poet For Our Times by Carol Ann Duffy
Psychopath by Carol Ann Duffy
Standing Female Nude by Carol Ann Duffy
Translating The English, 1989 by Carol Ann Duffy
Four Quartets: Little Gidding (1-5 Complete) by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Gerontion by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Waste Land: 1. The Burial Of The Dead by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Waste Land: 2. A Game Of Chess by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Waste Land: 3. The Fire Sermon by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Waste Land: 4. Death By Water by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Waste Land: 5. What The Thunder Said by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Plenum And Vacum by William Empson
Plenum And Vacuum by William Empson
Reflection From Rochester by William Empson
Reflection From Rochester by William Empson
Sonnet by William Empson
Sonnet by William Empson
Villanelle by William Empson
Villanelle by William Empson
Exile by Elaine Feinstein
For Brighton, Old Bawd by Elaine Feinstein
Marriage by Elaine Feinstein
Orkney Lyrics: 1. Peedie Mary Considers The Sun by Iain (ian) Hamilton Finlay
Orkney Lyrics: 1. Peedie Mary Considers The Sun by Iain (ian) Hamilton Finlay
Orkney Lyrics: 2. The English Colonel Explains An Orkney Boat by Iain (ian) Hamilton Finlay
Orkney Lyrics: 2. The English Colonel Explains An Orkney Boat by Iain (ian) Hamilton Finlay
Orkney Lyrics: 3. Mansie Considers Peedie Mary by Iain (ian) Hamilton Finlay
Orkney Lyrics: 3. Mansie Considers Peedie Mary by Iain (ian) Hamilton Finlay
Orkney Lyrics: 4. Mansie Considers The Sea In The Manner Of Hugh by Iain (ian) Hamilton Finlay
Orkney Lyrics: 4. Mansie Considers The Sea In The Manner Of Hugh by Iain (ian) Hamilton Finlay
Orkney Lyrics: 5. Folk Song For Poor Peedie Mary by Iain (ian) Hamilton Finlay
Orkney Lyrics: 5. Folk Song For Poor Peedie Mary by Iain (ian) Hamilton Finlay
Orkney Lyrics: 6. John Sharkey Is Pleased To Be In Sourin At Evening by Iain (ian) Hamilton Finlay
Orkney Lyrics: 6. John Sharkey Is Pleased To Be In Sourin At Evening by Iain (ian) Hamilton Finlay
African Mission by Allen Fisher
Defamiliarising____: 38 by Allen Fisher
Mummer's Strut by Allen Fisher
City: The Entertainment Of War by Roy Fisher
From An English Sensibility by Roy Fisher
A Furnace: 2. The Return by Roy Fisher
A Furnace: Introit by Roy Fisher
The Poplars by Roy Fisher
Walking Through The Suburb At Night by Roy Fisher
The Starling by Ford Madox Ford
Cordelia: Or, 'a Poem Should Not Mean, But Be' by Veronica Forrest-thomson
And The Seventh Dream Is The Dream Of Isis by David Gascoyne
And The Seventh Dream Is The Dream Of Isis by David Gascoyne
Baptism by David Gascoyne
Baptism by David Gascoyne
The Cubical Domes by David Gascoyne
The Cubical Domes by David Gascoyne
The Rites Of Hysteria by David Gascoyne
The Rites Of Hysteria by David Gascoyne
Language Ah Now You Have Me by William Sydney Graham
Language Ah Now You Have Me by William Sydney Graham
The Nightfishing by William Sydney Graham
The Nightfishing by William Sydney Graham
A Note To The Difficult One by William Sydney Graham
A Note To The Difficult One by William Sydney Graham
The Legs by Robert Ranke Graves
To Juan At The Winter Solstice by Robert Ranke Graves
Warning To Children by Robert Ranke Graves
The White Goddess by Robert Ranke Graves
A Drunk Man Looks At The Thistle: Sic Transit Gloria Scotiae by Christopher Murray Grieve
A Drunk Man Looks At The Thistle: The Barren Fig by Christopher Murray Grieve
A Drunk Man Looks At The Thistle: Yank Oot Your Orra Boughs by Christopher Murray Grieve
In The Fall by Christopher Murray Grieve
On A Raised Beach; To James H. Whyte by Christopher Murray Grieve
Reekie by Bill Griffiths
Confessions Of The Life Artist by Thomson William Gunn
Lament by Thomson William Gunn
Moly by Thomson William Gunn
Seesaw: Song by Thomson William Gunn
A Sketch Of The Great Dejection by Thomson William Gunn
The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision Of His Death by Thomson William Gunn
The Bare Line Of The Hill by Ivor Gurney
The Bohemians by Ivor Gurney
First Time In by Ivor Gurney
La Gorgue by Ivor Gurney
Sea-marge by Ivor Gurney
Answering A New Year Letter, 1989 by Alan Halsey
An Essay On Translation by Alan Halsey
Self-portrait In A '90s Bestiary by Alan Halsey
After A Journey by Thomas Hardy
Channel Firing by Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
Hap by Thomas Hardy
The Harbour Bridge by Thomas Hardy
He Never Expected Much (or) A Consideration by Thomas Hardy
I Found Her Out There by Thomas Hardy
In Time Of 'the Breaking Of Nations' by Thomas Hardy
The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy
Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy
The Pity Of It by Thomas Hardy
Satires Of Circumstance. 6. In The Cemetery by Thomas Hardy
Satires Of Circumstance: 2. In Church by Thomas Hardy
Snow In The Suburbs by Thomas Hardy
The Subalterns by Thomas Hardy
V by Tony Harrison
The Blue Mosque by Rafe Lee Harwood
Salt Water by Rafe Lee Harwood
When The Geography Was Fixed by Rafe Lee Harwood
Arbor Vitae by Randolph Healy
Colonies Of Belief by Randolph Healy
12. by Seamus Heaney
7. by Seamus Heaney
Bogland; For T.p. Flanagan by Seamus Heaney
The Mud Vision by Seamus Heaney
North by Seamus Heaney
Oysters by Seamus Heaney
Singing School: 1. The Ministry Of Fear by Seamus Heaney
Singing School: 2. A Constable Calls by Seamus Heaney
Singing School: 3. Orange Drums, Tyrone, 1966 by Seamus Heaney
Singing School: 4. Summer 1969 by Seamus Heaney
Singing School: 5. Fosterage; For Michael Mclaverty by Seamus Heaney
Singing School: 6. Exposure by Seamus Heaney
The Toome Road by Seamus Heaney
The Underground by Seamus Heaney
Auction! by Frederick Robert Higgins
A Plea by Frederick Robert Higgins
4. by Geoffrey Hill
Genesis by Geoffrey Hill
History As Poetry by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 1 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 10 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 11 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 12 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 2 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 27 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 28 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 29 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 3 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 30 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 4 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 5 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 6 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 7 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 8 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 9 by Geoffrey Hill
The Mystery Of The Charity Of Charles Peguy: 5 by Geoffrey Hill
Respublica by Geoffrey Hill
September Song by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 147 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 148 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 149 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 150 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 23 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 25 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 35 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 39 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 40 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 41 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 42 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 43 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 44 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 55 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 60 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 61 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 62 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 63 by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph Of Love: 64 by Geoffrey Hill
Abyss by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Carrion Comfort by Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Immanent by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Inversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Justus Quidem Tu Es, Domine by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spelt From Sibyl's Leaves by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring And Fall: To A Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Terrible Sonnets: 3 by Gerard Manley Hopkins
That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire & Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Crow Hears Fate Knock On The Door by Edward James Hughes
Flounders by Edward James Hughes
Gaudete, Sels. by Edward James Hughes
Gaudete, Sels. by Edward James Hughes
Gaudete, Sels. by Edward James Hughes
Gaudete, Sels. by Edward James Hughes
Out: 1. The Dream Time by Edward James Hughes
Out: 2. Remembrance Day by Edward James Hughes
Pibroch by Edward James Hughes
Pike by Edward James Hughes
View Of A Pig by Edward James Hughes
Wodwo by Edward James Hughes
As A Fowl by Thomas Ernest Hulme
Autumn by Thomas Ernest Hulme
Conversion by Thomas Ernest Hulme
The Embankment by Thomas Ernest Hulme
Fragment by Thomas Ernest Hulme
Fragment by Thomas Ernest Hulme
Fragment by Thomas Ernest Hulme
Image by Thomas Ernest Hulme
Good Old Harry by John James
Inaugural Address by John James
Choices by Elizabeth Jennings
Choices by Elizabeth Jennings
Fountain by Elizabeth Jennings
Fountain by Elizabeth Jennings
On Its Own by Elizabeth Jennings
On Its Own by Elizabeth Jennings
Mi Revalueshanary by Linton Kwesi Johnson
A, A, A, Domine Deus by David Jones
The Anathemata: 1. Rite And Fore-time by David Jones
The Anathemata: 3. Angle-land by David Jones
In Parenthesis: 7. The Five Unmistakable Marks by David Jones
Cry Help by Trevor Joyce
Tohu-bohu by Trevor Joyce
The Turlough by Trevor Joyce
1. by Patrick Kavanagh
9. by Patrick Kavanagh
Canal Bank Walk by Patrick Kavanagh
Canal Bank Walk by Patrick Kavanagh
Father Mat by Patrick Kavanagh
Father Mat by Patrick Kavanagh
The Great Hunger: 1 by Patrick Kavanagh
The Adoption Papers: 7. Black Bottom by Jackie Kay
The Anxiety Of Information by Jackie Kay
The Postcards Of Scotland by Jackie Kay
1. by Thomas Kinsella
2. by Thomas Kinsella
3. The Moment Of Departure by Thomas Kinsella
Baggot Street Deserta by Thomas Kinsella
Baggot Street Deserta by Thomas Kinsella
Epitaphs Of The War, 1914-18: A Dead Statesman by Rudyard Kipling
Epitaphs Of The War, 1914-18: Common Form by Rudyard Kipling
Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling
Sestina Of The Tramp Royal by Rudyard Kipling
Eclipsing Binaries: 1. The Net by Frank Kuppner
Eclipsing Binaries: 2. Doors by Frank Kuppner
Eclipsing Binaries: 3. Clouds by Frank Kuppner
Eclipsing Binaries: 4. Dust by Frank Kuppner
Man Jack by Roger Langley
Saxon Landings by Roger Langley
An Arundel Tomb by Philip Larkin
An Arundel Tomb by Philip Larkin
Church Going by Philip Larkin
The Explosion by Philip Larkin
The Explosion by Philip Larkin
Going, Going by Philip Larkin
High Windows by Philip Larkin
Homage To A Government by Philip Larkin
Homage To A Government by Philip Larkin
Nothing To Be Said by Philip Larkin
Nothing To Be Said by Philip Larkin
This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin
This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin
Toads by Philip Larkin
Toads by Philip Larkin
Water by Philip Larkin
Water by Philip Larkin
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
Andraitx: Pomegranate Flowers by David Herbert Lawrence
Bavarian Gentians by David Herbert Lawrence
Pomegranate by David Herbert Lawrence
Snake by David Herbert Lawrence
Swan by David Herbert Lawrence
Under The Oak by David Herbert Lawrence
Willy Wet-leg by David Herbert Lawrence
A Priest Came On At Merkland Street by Tom Leonard
Six Glasgow Poems: 1. The Good Thief by Tom Leonard
Six Glasgow Poems: 2. Simple Simon by Tom Leonard
Six Glasgow Poems: 3. Cold, Isn't It by Tom Leonard
Six Glasgow Poems: 4. A Scream by Tom Leonard
Six Glasgow Poems: 5. The Miracle Of The Burd And The Fishes by Tom Leonard
Six Glasgow Poems: 6. Good Style by Tom Leonard
Bagpipe Muzak, Glasgow 1990 by Liz Lochhead
Mirror's Song by Liz Lochhead
Brought Forward by Tony Lopez
Anglo-mongrels And The Rose: English Rose by Mina Loy
Der Blinde Junge by Mina Loy
Italian Pictures: Costa Magic by Mina Loy
Italian Pictures: July In Vallombrosa by Mina Loy
Italian Pictures: The Costa San Giorgio by Mina Loy
Celtic Cross by Norman Maccaig
Celtic Cross by Norman Maccaig
High Street, Edinburgh by Norman Maccaig
High Street, Edinburgh by Norman Maccaig
Intrusion by Norman Maccaig
Intrusion by Norman Maccaig
Nude In A Fountain by Norman Maccaig
Nude In A Fountain by Norman Maccaig
Blackbird/jackdaw/turdus/corvus/merula/monedula by Helen Macdonald
Poem by Helen Macdonald
Section Viii by Helen Macdonald
Taxonomy by Helen Macdonald
Going Westwards by Sorley Maclean
Going Westwards by Sorley Maclean
The Island by Sorley Maclean
The Island by Sorley Maclean
The Ecliptic: Cancer, Or The Crab by Joseph Gordon Macleod
The Ecliptic: Cancer, Or, The Crab by Joseph Gordon Macleod
Carrickfergus by Frederick Louis Macneice
Carrickfergus by Frederick Louis Macneice
An Eclogue For Christmas by Frederick Louis Macneice
An Eclogue For Christmas by Frederick Louis Macneice
Snow by Frederick Louis Macneice
Snow by Frederick Louis Macneice
Valediction by Frederick Louis Macneice
Valediction by Frederick Louis Macneice
Hellhound Memos, Sels. by Barry Macsweeney
Countries Of The Dead: 2 by Charles Madge
Countries Of The Dead: 2 by Charles Madge
Delusions: 1 by Charles Madge
Delusions: 1 by Charles Madge
Delusions: 2 by Charles Madge
Delusions: 2 by Charles Madge
Delusions: 5 by Charles Madge
Delusions: 5 by Charles Madge
Delusions: 7 by Charles Madge
Delusions: 7 by Charles Madge
Obsessional by Charles Madge
Obsessional by Charles Madge
A Disused Shed In Co. Wexford by Derek Mahon
A Garage In Co. Cork by Derek Mahon
The Snow Party; For Louis Asekoff by Derek Mahon
Stanzas 1-4 by Derek Mahon
Grandmotherpoem by E. A. Markham
The Mother's Tale by E. A. Markham
The Sea by E. A. Markham
Towards The End Of A Century: 1 by E. A. Markham
Towards The End Of A Century: 2 by E. A. Markham
Towards The End Of A Century: 3 by E. A. Markham
Towards The End Of A Century: 4. A Protest by E. A. Markham
Towards The End Of A Century: 5. On Another Field, An Ally: A West by E. A. Markham
Towards The End Of A Century: 6. Face To Face by E. A. Markham
De Civitate Hominum by Thomas Mcgreevy
Homage To Hieronymus Bosch by Thomas Mcgreevy
The Six Who Were Hanged by Thomas Mcgreevy
The Albert Chain by Medbh Mcguckian
Aviary by Medbh Mcguckian
The Seed-picture by Medbh Mcguckian
Slips by Medbh Mcguckian
Tulips by Medbh Mcguckian
The War Ending by Medbh Mcguckian
Arracombe Wood by Charlotte Mew
Fame by Charlotte Mew
The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew
Monsieur Qui Passe: Quai Voltaire by Charlotte Mew
On The Road To The Sea by Charlotte Mew
Hearing Elgar Again by Christopher Middleton
Hearing Elgar Again by Christopher Middleton
The Prose Of Walking Back To China by Christopher Middleton
The Prose Of Walking Back To China by Christopher Middleton
A Garden Of Tears by Drew Milne
La Quinta Del Sordo by Geraldine Monk
Where? by Geraldine Monk
Bitter Sanctuary by Harold Monro
A Bright Day by John Montague
The Cage by John Montague
This Neutral Realm by John Montague
The Trout; For Barrie Cooke by John Montague
The Well Dreams by John Montague
Ideas Of Disorder At Torquay by Nicholas Moore
Ideas Of Disorder At Torquay by Nicholas Moore
Leap Year by Nicholas Moore
Leap Year by Nicholas Moore
Portman Restaurant by Nicholas Moore
Portman Restaurant by Nicholas Moore
Song by Nicholas Moore
Song by Nicholas Moore
The Old Gods by Edwin Muir
The Three Mirrors by Edwin Muir
Incantata by Paul Muldoon
Meeting The British by Paul Muldoon
Quoof by Paul Muldoon
The Fat Black Woman Remembers by Grace Nichols
The Fat Black Woman Versus Politics by Grace Nichols
Long-man by Grace Nichols
Skanking Englishman Between Trains by Grace Nichols
Garb by Maggie O'sullivan
Hill Figures by Maggie O'sullivan
Starlings by Maggie O'sullivan
Arms And The Boy by Wilfred Owen
Disabled by Wilfred Owen
Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen
Corybantic by Clere Parsons
Corybantic by Clere Parsons
Different by Clere Parsons
Different by Clere Parsons
Interruption by Clere Parsons
Interruption by Clere Parsons
Photogravure by Clere Parsons
Photogravure by Clere Parsons
The Double D Economy by Tom Pickard
Energy by Tom Pickard
A History Lesson From My Son On Hadrian's Wall by Tom Pickard
Strafford by Frank Templeton Prince
Strafford by Frank Templeton Prince
An Enquiry Into Two Inches Of Ivory by Craig Raine
A Martian Sends A Postcard Home by Craig Raine
Eternal Sections, Sels. by Thomas Moore Raworth
Eternal Sections, Sels. by Thomas Moore Raworth
Eternal Sections, Sels. by Thomas Moore Raworth
Logbook: Page 106 by Thomas Moore Raworth
Logbook: Page 453 by Thomas Moore Raworth
Out Of The Picture by Thomas Moore Raworth
Sentenced To Death, Sels. by Thomas Moore Raworth
Sentenced To Death, Sels. by Thomas Moore Raworth
Sentenced To Death, Sels. by Thomas Moore Raworth
South America by Thomas Moore Raworth
Wedding Day by Thomas Moore Raworth
You've Ruined My Evening/you've Ruined My Life by Thomas Moore Raworth
Stet, Sels. by Peter Reading
Thucydidean by Peter Reading
Against Death by Peter Redgrove
The British Museum Smile by Peter Redgrove
Mothers And Child by Peter Redgrove
Young Women With The Hair Of Witches And No Modesty by Peter Redgrove
The Slave Ship by Carlyle Reedy
Affections Must Not by Denise Riley
Knowing In The Real World by Denise Riley
Lure, 1963 by Denise Riley
Pastoral by Denise Riley
When It's Time To Go by Denise Riley
Wherever You Are, Be Somewhere Else by Denise Riley
Czargrad by John Riley
Excavations: 1. Distant Points by Peter Riley
Excavations: 1. Distant Points by Peter Riley
Excavations: 1. Distant Points by Peter Riley
Excavations: 2. This Carol They Began That Hour by Peter Riley
Excavations: 2. This Carol They Began That Hour by Peter Riley
Excavations: 2. This Carol They Began That Hour by Peter Riley
Excavations: 3. Vacated Thrones by Peter Riley
Excavations: 3. Vacated Thrones by Peter Riley
Lines On The Liver: 1 by Peter Riley
Lines On The Liver: 10. Window Piece by Peter Riley
Lines On The Liver: 11 by Peter Riley
Lines On The Liver: 17 by Peter Riley
Lines On The Liver: 2 by Peter Riley
Gods With Stainless Ears: 4 by Lynette Roberts
Gods With Stainless Ears: 4. Cri Madonna by Lynette Roberts
Gods With Stainless Ears: 5 by Lynette Roberts
Gods With Stainless Ears: 5 by Lynette Roberts
Hymn To Love by John Rodker
I'd Have Loved You As You Deserved Had We Been Frogs by John Rodker
The Music Hall by John Rodker
A Slice Of Life by John Rodker
Break Of Day In The Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg
Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg
The Jew by Isaac Rosenberg
Louse Hunting by Isaac Rosenberg
The General by Siegfried Sassoon
The Rear-guard by Siegfried Sassoon
A Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon
Johnie Raw Prays For His Lords And Maisters by Thomas Scott
Johnie Raw Prays For His Lords And Maisters by Thomas Scott
Steps: Fire by Maurice Scully
Mad Cow Dance by Jo Shapcott
The Mad Cow In Love by Jo Shapcott
Phrase Book by Jo Shapcott
Internal Exile: 1 by Robert Sheppard
The Materialization Of Soap 1947 by Robert Sheppard
A Daisy by Jon Silkin
Dandelion by Jon Silkin
Death Of A Son (who Died In A Mental Hospital Aged One) by Jon Silkin
First It Was Singing by Jon Silkin
A Word About Freedom And Identity In Tel Aviv by Jon Silkin
Au Clair De La Lune by Charles Hubert Sisson
Au Clair De La Lune by Charles Hubert Sisson
The Desert by Charles Hubert Sisson
The Desert by Charles Hubert Sisson
A Letter To John Donne by Charles Hubert Sisson
A Letter To John Donne by Charles Hubert Sisson
Place by Charles Hubert Sisson
Place by Charles Hubert Sisson
Bucolic Comedy: 4. Fox Trot by Edith Sitwell
The Canticle Of The Rose by Edith Sitwell
Facade: 10. Ass-face by Edith Sitwell
Facade: 2. The Bat by Edith Sitwell
Facade: 27. When Sir Beelzebub by Edith Sitwell
Black March by Florence Margaret Smith
Black March by Florence Margaret Smith
The Celts by Florence Margaret Smith
The Celts by Florence Margaret Smith
My Hat by Florence Margaret Smith
My Hat by Florence Margaret Smith
Not Waving But Drowning by Florence Margaret Smith
Not Waving But Drowning by Florence Margaret Smith
Pretty by Florence Margaret Smith
Pretty by Florence Margaret Smith
Souvenir De Monsieur Poop by Florence Margaret Smith
Souvenir De Monsieur Poop by Florence Margaret Smith
The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower by Dylan Thomas
The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower by Dylan Thomas
Our Eunuch Dreams by Dylan Thomas
Our Eunuch Dreams by Dylan Thomas
Over Sir John's Hill by Dylan Thomas
Over Sir John's Hill by Dylan Thomas
Today, This Insect by Dylan Thomas
Adlestrop by Philip Edward Thomas
A Cat by Philip Edward Thomas
Rain by Philip Edward Thomas
The Wasp Trap by Philip Edward Thomas
Aesthetic by Charles Tomlinson
Aesthetic by Charles Tomlinson
Annunciation by Charles Tomlinson
Annunciation by Charles Tomlinson
Distinctions by Charles Tomlinson
The Garden by Charles Tomlinson
The Garden by Charles Tomlinson
The Plaza by Charles Tomlinson
The Plaza by Charles Tomlinson
Prometheus by Charles Tomlinson
Prometheus by Charles Tomlinson
Saving The Appearances by Charles Tomlinson
Saving The Appearances by Charles Tomlinson
Swimming Chenango Lake by Charles Tomlinson
Swimming Chenango Lake by Charles Tomlinson
The Ice-cream Boom Towns by Rosemary Tonks
The Little Cardboard Suitcase by Rosemary Tonks
The Sofas, Fogs, And Cinemas by Rosemary Tonks
George Fox, From His Journals by Gael Turnbull
George Fox, From His Journals by Gael Turnbull
Thighs Gripping by Gael Turnbull
Twenty Words, Twenty Days: 17 by Gael Turnbull
Twenty Words, Twenty Days: 17 by Gael Turnbull
Twenty Words, Twenty Days: 18 by Gael Turnbull
Twenty Words, Twenty Days: 18 by Gael Turnbull
Twenty Words, Twenty Days: 19 by Gael Turnbull
Twenty Words, Twenty Days: 19 by Gael Turnbull
Twenty Words, Twenty Days: 20 by Gael Turnbull
Twenty Words, Twenty Days: 20 by Gael Turnbull
Pitch: 3 by Catherine Walsh
Anne Donne by Sylvia Townsend Warner
East London Cemetery by Sylvia Townsend Warner
King Duffus by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Nelly Trim by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Divorce by Anna Wickham
Meditation At Kew by Anna Wickham
Self Analysis by Anna Wickham
Sarn Helen, Sels. by John Wilkinson
Sarn Helen, Sels. by John Wilkinson
Sarn Helen, Sels. by John Wilkinson
Among School Children by William Butler Yeats
Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
The Circus Animals' Desertion by William Butler Yeats
A Coat by William Butler Yeats
Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop by William Butler Yeats
The Dolls by William Butler Yeats
Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
Lapis Lazuli (for Henry Clifton) by William Butler Yeats
Leda And The Swan by William Butler Yeats
Politics by William Butler Yeats
A Prayer For My Daughter by William Butler Yeats
The Realists: 1. The Witch by William Butler Yeats
The Realists: 2. The Peacock by William Butler Yeats
Sailing To Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
September 1913 by William Butler Yeats
To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time by William Butler Yeats
The Tower by William Butler Yeats
Under Ben Bulben by William Butler Yeats
The Valley Of The Black Pig by William Butler Yeats
Who Goes With Fergus? by William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans At Coole by William Butler Yeats
Money by Benjamin Zephaniah
The Sun by Benjamin Zephaniah
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Quietly revolutionary [and] certainly an enjoyable and interesting read. ... I can only applaud Tuma and Dorward for their industry. . . -- Richard Caddel, _Jacket_ 15 (2001)

Tuma has almost achieved the impossible. . . full of surprising discoveries and judicious selections. . .genuinely pluralist. . . -- David Kennedy, _PN Review_ 141 (2001)

[A]mbitious, capacious, sometimes capricious ... [A]nthologies like Tuma's ... try to make readers reexamine their tastes. . . . -- Stephen Burt, _Boston Review_ (January, 2002)

Review
"A wonderful feast of poets both well-known and half-forgotten; a scrupulous, beautiful gathering of the most vivid poetry in these great traditions."--Reginald Gibbons, Northwestern University

"A fine and fresh selection attractively presented with intelligent introductions and some unusual (and interesting) choices."--David Lampe, Buffalo State College

"Wide selection mindful of canonical and emergent voices. Highly readable and teachable."--Shakir Mustafa, Boston University

"Remarkable range. It is a library of poetry that leaves one wishing for more and no longer willing to settle for less."--Gale L. Ward, Brigham Young University-Hawaii

About the Author
Keith Tuma, Associate Professor of English, Miami University of Ohio.

Customer Reviews

The most significant anthology of the period yet
I was moved to place this notice in response to the others I spotted here, having already written an extensive essay on the book for Chicago Review (Vol. 47, No. 3, Fall 2001 issue). This book is significant precisely because it cuts across existing preconceptions of what is important in 20th Century British and Irish Poetry - some of my own included. While its coverage of Welsh poetry of this period could be better, this is counterbalanced by a very astute view of Irish poetry, which brings mportant figures to notice (above all in the UK and the USA, where they are almost unknown) such as Devlin, Coffey, Joyce, Walsh and others. The fact that (for instance) Michael Longley is missing from the selection is due to the editor's assessment that Longley is not as interesting a poet as his current reputation in the UK would suggest. This holds good for a number of other well-known names too, such as Paulin and Armitage, but is inevitable if an editor is to make serious and informed choices, rather than simply produce a list of the Top Hundred as defined by the boulevard press or London's Poetry Review.

Several significant practitioners of what might be termed post-modernist, or late-modernist, or even "avant-garde" poetry have been included, but they represent less than half the selection from the post-1950 period, which does not seem to me to be unfair. I disagree with some of the inclusions and exclusions too, but I can't think of an anthology that I have agreed with totally in this respect, and it's not about to start now. This is far and away the best, and fairest survey of the period
so far, and it should open a number of eyes. It will offend the preconceptions of those committed to a more conservative view of history, but that is the job of an anthology - to redefine, to challenge, to suggest that appearances are not everything. This is a fine book that deserves to be on most reading lists, and on the shelves of most people interested in the subject. If it creates irate debate, so much the better: at least we'll all be talking about a subject that is all too often ignored.

A landmark anthology
I write as someone who had a major role in this book (my job was to write the annotations), so obviously I'm hardly an impartial reviewer, but nonetheless I want to say that Keith Tuma's Oxford anthology is a landmark book. English-language anthologies in any field have typically been rather exclusive in focus. On the one hand, there's "mainstream" anthologies, which usually carry a bland title that promises an objective synopsis (Ellmann & O'Clair's _The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry_, for instance, or Edna Longley's _The Bloodaxe Book of Twentieth Century Poetry_) which conceals the extremely partial account of the field actually given in the book (Longley's book, absurdly, omits to mention anywhere on its cover or spine that it omits American poetry; Ellmann & O'Clair's book is heavily slanted towards American writers, especially in its second half; each book gives only cursory accounts of nonmainstream poetries). On the other hand, there's "avantgarde" anthologies: Hoover's _Postmodern American Poetry_ book, Silliman's _In the American Tree_, Crozier and Longville's _A Various Art_, Caddel & Quartermain's _OTHER_, Joris & Rothenberg's _Poems for the Millennium_. These books pointedly exclude anything from the "mainstream" side of the spectrum, & are often bolstered with highly polemical introductions that dismiss that mainstream as producing any writing of value at all.

Keith Tuma's new anthology is one of the very few books to pull together both mainstream & avantgarde together, as well as many authors who are hard to categorize in terms of such a binary. As he notes in his introduction, conventional literary histories in the UK, Ireland & the US have often portrayed UK & Irish poetry as a mirror-image to US poetry: hostile to modernist innovations; modest in ambitions; highly traditional in form. One thing his accent on nonmainstream poetries does is to undo such cliches: such writers as Mina Loy, JG Macleod, Thomas MacGreevy, Brian Coffey, WS Graham, Lynette Roberts & David Gascoyne are set beside better-known modernist figures like Eliot, Lawrence, Jones, Bunting & MacDiarmid. There are also many authors who aren't easily classified. What do you call Ivor Gurney? An experimentalist Georgian? Or Charlotte Mew--is she an avantgarde Decadent poet? What about FT Prince, or FR Higgins, or Elizabeth Daryush, or Nicholas Moore?

The book is organized chronologically according to birthdate: such an organization makes for startling juxtapositions of style & reputation. How about Keith Douglas (1920-1944: wrote a handful of great WW2 poems & a prose work, _Alamein to Zem Zem_, & died at Normandy); Bob Cobbing (b.1920: sound-poet, creator of visual poems by e.g. manipulating images on a xerox machine, founder of the redoubtable little press writers forum); Philip Larkin (1922-1985: Eeyoreish head of the Movement, author of some of the most loved contemporary poems in Britain, supporter of Thatcher, & now fallen from grace due to the posthumous publication of his bile-strewn letters). Or two Leeds-born contemporaries: Tony Harrison (b.1937: represented by the long poem _v._, an elegaic poem whose four-letter words were the cause of a public uproar when it was broadcast on television by the BBC) next to John Riley (1937-1978: represented by the long poem _Czargrad_, a religious poem showing both his fascination with the Orthodox Church and with the poetics of Pound, Olson, Blackburn and Williams; the author died at age 41, killed by muggers in Leeds).

Probably the easiest way of demonstrating the book's unique diversity is to list the authors included. They are: Hardy, Hopkins, Kipling, Yeats, Mew, de la Mare, Ford, E. Thomas, Monro, Loy, Hulme, Wickham, Lawrence, Sassoon, Sitwell, Daryush, Muir, Eliot, Butts, Rosenberg, Gurney, MacDiarmid, Warner, MacGreevy, Owen, Rodker, Jones, Graves, Cunard, Clarke, Higgins, Bunting, S. Smith, Macleod, Kavanagh, Coffey, Empson, Beckett, Auden, MacNeice, Parsons, Devlin, Roberts, MacCaig, MacLean, Prince, Madge, D. Thomas, Sisson, Gascoyne, Moore, Graham, Scott, Douglas, Cobbing, Larkin, Davie, Berry, Finlay, Benveniste, Jennings, Middleton, Tomlinson, Kinsella, Turnbull, Montague, Gunn, Feinstein, Hughes, R. Fisher, Silkin, Tonks, Redgrove, Hill, Adcock, Harrison, J. Riley, Raworth, Langley, Reedy, Markham, James, Harwood, Heaney, P. Riley, Mahon, Crozier, Leonard, Raine, Boland, A. Fisher, Pickard, Reading, Forrest-Thomson, Lochhead, Joyce, D. Riley, MacSweeney, Griffiths, Catling, Halsey, Nichols, McGuckian, Lopez, O'Sullivan, Muldoon, Kuppner, Monk, Johnson, Scully, Wilkinson, Shapcott, Alvi, Duffy, cheek, Sheppard, Dabydeen, Healy, Breeze, Zephaniah, Kay, Herbert, Bergvall, Milne, Walsh, Macdonald.

I should also (in all modesty) add that this is one of the few volumes of modern poetry with full annotations. I assembled these with the assistance of scholars, other readers, poets, & in the case of the living, the poets themselves (indeed, some of the notes quote the letters they wrote me). I have continued to augment the notes, & have fixed a few small errors: readers who want to get the errata can write me at ndorward@sprint.ca for a copy.