Poetry Book Society Anthology

This is a selection of poems which are designed to represent new poetry in Britain and Ireland. The poets featured include Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and a newer generation of poets that include Paul Muldoon, Michael Hofmann, Selima Hill, George Szirtes, Carol Rumens, Stephen Romer and Kit Wright. The senior and middle generations are also represented in the form of poets such as Porter, Heaney and Dunn. Alongside these are a selection of outstanding foreign poets, some already well-known such as Les Murray, Louis Simpson and Derek Walcott and others specially translated for this book, including poets from Greece, Hungary, Romania, Finland and elsewhere. William Scammell is the author of "Bleeding Heart Yard" and is the winner of the National Poetry Competition in 1989.