Overview
Highlighting new and established poets, this anthology provides an impressive and varied selection of contemporary poetry. The poems dramatically differ in their style, form, and content, but are all marked by the English department at Oxford University as excellent examples in verse. Authors include Carmen Bugan, Jane Draycott, Maureen Duffy, Anthony Hecht, Peter Howard, Lucy Newlyn, Stephen Romer, Robert Saxton, Peter Scupham, N. S. Thompson, and Charles Tomlinson.Author Biography
David Constantine, a poet and translator, is a fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford and the author of The Pelt of Wasps. Hermione Lee is a professor of English literature at Oxford. She is author of Virginia Woolf and other biographical and critical works. Bernard O’Donoghue is professor of medieval literature at Oxford. He is author of Here Nor There. All editors live in Oxford, England.
