New British Poetry (2004)
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New British Poetry is a 2004 poetry anthology edited by Scots poet Don Paterson and American poet Charles Simic.
In his preface, Simic wrote: "To make it as current as possible, Don Paterson and I decided to include only poets born after 1945 who have had at least two books published. Aside from that constraint, our plan was simply to read a lot of poetry and pick out poems we like."[1]
In a review of the book, Zachariah Wells writes that the editors "favour taste over tact, to exclude work from that school of opaque hermeticism known variously as 'experimental,' 'postmodern' or 'avant-garde' poetry. This is a conscious decision, made explicit by Paterson [...]"[2]
Paterson, in his "passionately opinionated"[2] introduction, has a defense of mainstream poetry:
- The work of the Postmoderns delegates the production of meaning to the reader, their poetry being largely derelict in its responsibility to aid it. The reader is alone. For those of us quickly bored by our own company, the result is work that can be objectively described as extremely boring.[2]
Poets included
The volume includes work from 36 poets from England, Scotland, and Wales (not Northern Ireland):
Other information
ISBN 1-55597-394-9 (paperback)
256 pages
See also
Notes
- ^ [1] Simic, Charles, Preface, New American Poetry from an excerpt on a Web page at Graywolf Press Web site, accessed January 21, 2007
- ^ a b c [2] Wells, Zach, untitled, undated article reviewing Backyard of Heaven: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from Ireland and Newfoundland & Labrador" and "New British Poetry", The Danforth Review, accessed January 21, 2007
External links
- [3] Graywolf Press Web page on the book
- Reviews
- [4] Review of the book by Zach Wells at The Danforth Review (Canadian)
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