Full Description
The Best British Poetry 2012 presents the finest and most engaging poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK poetry. Each poem is accompanied by a note by the poet explaining the inspiration for the poem.
An indispensable guide to British poetry and a must-have purchase for anyone interested in the art, from newcomers to the most experienced professional and all creative writing students working in English.
Contents
Foreword by Roddy Lumsden
Introduction by Sasha Dugdale
Fleur Adcock "Bees' Nest"
Patience Agbabi "Unfinished Business"
Tara Bergin "Stag-Boy"
Liz Berry "Sow"
Alison Brackenbury "Roll-on"
Vahni Capildeo "Four Departures from 'Wulf and Eadwacer'"
Melanie Challenger "Suilven or Humility"
Amarjit Chandan "The Prisoner Being Released"
Gillian Clarke "Swans"
John Wedgwood Clarke "Sandside"
John Clegg "Mermaids"
David Constantine "A Local Habitation"
Sarah Corbett "An English Walk"
Abi Curtis "Purpose-Built Town"
Amy De'Ath "Failure"
Christine de Luca "Discontinuity"
Michael Egan "intermission"
Elaine Feinstein "Damage"
Jane Flett "This Cowgirl's Lament"
John Gallas "from pacifications"
John Gohorry "from Keeping the City"
Andrew Greig "Wynd"
Vona Groarke "Midsummer"
Jo Haslam "Hart"
Michael Haslam "Old Lad"
Paul Henry "Usk"
Selima Hill "The Elephant Whose Sturgeon-like Blood"
Sheila Hillier "Re-entry"
Sarah Howe "Death of Orpheus"
Joanna Ingham "The Corpse Road"
Anthony Joseph "River Dove"
Annie Katchinska "Tawpie"
David Kinloch "from I, Giraffe"
Janet Kofi-Tsekpo "The Arch"
Tim Liardet "Deleted Scene (The Frog)"
Frances Leviston "A Shrunken Head"
Fran Lock "from The Mystic and The Pig Thief"
Richie McCaffery "Ballast Flint"
Karen McCarthy Woolf "Old Mutha Riah. Hoxton 1935"
Jamie McKendrick "King Billy's Nemesis"
Michael McKimm "Water Cure"
Hugh McMillan "Too Big a Part"
Kathryn Maris "What Will Happen To The Neighbours
When The Earth Floods?"
Hilary Menos "Bob's Dogs"
Harriet Moore "Bog Bodies"
Kim Moore "The Drowned Fields"
David Morley "Ballad of the Moon, Moon"
Graham Mort "Passed"
Stephanie Norgate "Free style"
Bernard O'Donoghue "Sardines"
Richard Owens "Immigrant Song"
Ruth Padel "Ripples on New Grass"
Alasdair Paterson "Pomegranate"
Anita Pati "An unborn child wonders if it's worth it"
Eleanor Perry "Sole"
Pascale Petit "Notre Dame Father"
Jacob Polley "Lunarian"
Caroline Price "After"
Anne Rouse "High Wall"
Kathryn Simmonds "Experience"
Zoe Skoulding "The Man in the Moone"
Anne Stevenson "How astonishing"
Greta Stoddart "The Curtain"
Claire Trevien "Sing Bird"
Mark Waldron "The Life Cycle of the Fly"
Rory Waterman "Marstrand"
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch "Delft"
Yang Lian "Questions about the Demon Taotie"
Jane Yeh "The Birds"
Contributors' Notes And Comments
List Of Magazines
Acknowledgements
