Full Description
The Best British Poetry 2014 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.
Contents
Contents
Foreword by Roddy Lumsden
Introduction by Mark Ford
Mir Mahfuz Ali
MIG-21 Raids at Shegontola
Rachael Allen
Science and Math
Robert Anthony
Clouds
Simon Armitage
Emergency
Michael Bayley
Estuary
Fiona Benson
Toboggan Run
Emily Berry
Picnic
Liz Berry
Scenes from The Passion - The First Path
Rachael Boast
The North Porch
Alan Brownjohn
Index of First Lines
Colette Bryce
Don't speak to the Brits, just pretend they don't exist
John Burnside
Choir
Dominic Bury
A Prism of Signs
Anthony Caleshu
from The Victor Poems
Geraldine Clarkson
The thing about Grace and Laura
Sophie Collins
Desk
Joey Connolly
Chekhov's Gun
Siân Melangell Dafydd
Big Cats
Joe Dresner
a glass of ice cold milk
Laura Elliott
Skype Blinks
Malene Engelund
The Terns
Richard Evans
Space Invader
Ruth Fainlight
The Motorway
Matthew Francis
Silverfish, Moth
Claudia Friedrich
My Disseration No Plagiarisation!
Matthew Gregory
A Room at the Grand Hotel des Roches Noires, 1971
David Harsent
Fire: end-scenes and outtakes
Lee Harwood
The Oak Coffer
Oli Hazzard
from Within Habit
Sarah Howe
A loop of jade
Caoilinn Hughes
Bruisewort
Kirsten Irving
No Fish Are We Now
Alan Jenkins
Deptford
Mimi Khalvati
Bringing Down the Stars
Hannah Lowe
The Other Family
Lydia MacPherson
Lithium Lovesong
Glyn Maxwell
Modu and Mahu
Chris McCabe
The Duchess of Malfi
Christopher Middleton
Go With Isaac Rosenberg
Andrew Motion
The Mill
André Naffis-Sahely
Through the Rockies
John North
Summer Solstice, Cumbria
Ruth Padel
The Chain
Abigail Parry
Girl to Snake
Christopher Riesco
Caliban Life
Carol Rumens
Easter Snow
Declan Ryan
Ethiopia Shall Stretch Forth Her Hands
Richard Scott
Pilgrimage
Ian Seed
Prize-Giving
Martha Sprackland
'Dooms'
Julian Stannard
September 1939
Jon Stone
Endings to Adventure Gamebooks 22
Todd Swift
Red Shoes
George Szirtes
Sealed With a Kiss
Rebecca Tamás
A Trip With Werner Herzog
Philip Terry
Inferno: Canto I
Helen Tookey
Fosse Way
Jack Underwood
Thank you for your email
Mark Waldron
First off,
Kate Wakeling
Riddle
Sarah Wardle
Freeman
Sarah Westcott
Messenger
Sam Willetts
Caravaggio
Hugo Williams
from Notes from Dialysis
John Hartley Williams
I Inspect the Storm
William Wootten
The Harvest
