New Poetries V: An Anthology

by Michael Schmidt (Author), Michael Schmidt (Author), Eleanor Crawforth (Editor)

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  2011

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  For two decades New Poetries has been a proving-ground for new poets in English from around the world. Here readers first encountered, in generous selections, work by, among others, Caroline Bird, Stephen Burt, Sophie Hannah, Emma Jones, Nicole Krauss, Patrick McGuinness, Kei Miller, David Morley, Sinead Morrissey, Togara Muzanenhamo, Matthew Welton and Jane Yeh. Published from Manchester, the anthologies overlook national borders, instead providing vistas across a worldscape. This fifth New Poetries anthology presents twenty-two new writers, organised in such a way as to highlight their variety, the 'irreducible plural' of poetry today. It includes work by poets ranging from their early twenties to their late sixties, and harking from Canada, England, Iran, New Zealand, the Philippines, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, the United States and Wales. Their forms and themes are wonderfully various. What they have in common is intelligence, curiosity and a willingness to take risks. This book's surprises remain fresh, the writers promise major things.

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  1994

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  This substantial anthology of the work of young English-language poets from Britain and abroad displays the variety and vigour of a new generation. The ebullient traditional wit of Sophie Hannah, the vivid orientation of Adam Schwartzman's poems set in South Africa, the formal challenge of Miles Champion with his debt to French poetry and to the New York School amply and originally repaid, and the precise elegiac note of Adam Johnson, who died of AIDS in 1992, are generously represented. These are among the poets whose first collections will be published by Carcanet in coming years. Most are in their twenties. They do not constitute a school or movement: their work attests to the particular independence of spirit of writers for whom the fashions of the 1980s hold little charm, whose roots are in the poetries of the past and of other lands.