Oxford Poets Anthology 2010

by Constantine, David; Marsack, Robyn; O'Donoghue, Bernard

• ISBN13: 9781903039984
• ISBN10: 1903039983
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-01
• Publisher: Oxford Poets

Summary

Introducing selections of both promise and achievement, this rich collection of British poetry highlights new talent along with established artists--poets whose imaginative and linguistic worlds span decades and continents. Presenting poems that display an intelligence of purpose and design, readers will be able to track the development of their favorite writers while being exposed to the newest emerging wordsmiths.

Author Biography

David Constantine is a novelist, poet, and translator. He is the author of six volumes of poetry, including Collected Poems and Something for the Ghosts, and Under the Dam, a collection of short fiction. He is also an editor of the Oxford Poets imprint and Modern Poetry in Translation magazine. Robyn Marsack is a critic, a translator, and the director of the Scottish Poetry Library. She is the author of Sylvia Plath and the translator of Twenty Contemporary New Zealand Poets: An Anthology. Bernard O'Donoghue is a professor of medieval English at Wadham College–Oxford, and the author of Here Nor There.