Overview
From the first New Poetries anthology, published in 1994, through to this seventh volume, the series has showcased some of the most engaging and inventive new poets writing in English from around the world. Many have gone on to achieve notable success: Kei Miller, Sinéad Morrissey, Caroline Bird, Sophie Hannah, Tara Bergin and Vahni Capildeo among them. The New Poetries anthologies have never sought to identify a 'school', much less a 'generation': the poets included employ a wide range of styles, forms and approaches, and 'new' need not be taken to imply 'young'. Many of the poets in the anthology have arrived via the pages of PN Review. FEATURING Luke Allan, Zohar Atkins, Rowland Bagnall, Sumita Chakraborty, Mary Jean Chan, Helen Charman, Rebecca Cullen, Ned Denny, Neil Fleming , Isabel Galleymore, Katherine Horrex, Lisa Kelly, Theophilus Kwek, Andrew Latimer, Toby Litt, Rachel Mann, James Leo McAskill, Jamie Osborn, Andrew Wynn Owen, Phoebe Power, Laura Scott, and Vala Thorodds.Reviews
'[Schmidt] is a man who knows his onions when it comes to poetry.' - The Guardian on 'New Poetries V'Author Biography
Michael Schmidt – poet, literary historian, critic and translator – was born in Mexico in 1947. He studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford, where he established Carcanet Press. He has taught in Manchester and Glasgow, was poet in residence at St John's College, Cambridge, and will be a visiting scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge in 2017–18. He is founder and General Editor of PN Review and Publisher at Carcanet.
