Machine generated contents note: "The Birds" / Jane Yeh. "Unfinished Business" / Patience Agbabi -- "Stag-Boy" / Tara Bergin -- "Sow" / Liz Berry -- "Roll-on" / Alison Brackenbury -- "Four Departures from `Wulf and Eadwacer' " / Vahni Capildeo -- "Suilven or Humility" / Melanie Challenger -- "The Prisoner Being Released" / Amarji Chandan -- "Swans" / Gillian Clarke -- "Sandside" / John Wedgwood Clarke -- "Mermaids" / John Clegg -- "A Local Habitation" / David Constantine -- "An English Walk" / Sarah Corbett -- "Purpose-Built Town" / Abi Curtis -- "Failure" / Amy De'Ath -- "Discontinuity" / Christine De Luca -- "intermission" / Michael Egan -- "Damage" / Elaine Feinstein -- "This Cowgirl's Lament" / Jane Flett -- from "pacifictions" / John Gallas -- from "Keeping the City" / John Gohorry -- "Wynd" / Andrew Greig -- "Midsummer" / Vona Groarke -- "Hart" / Jo Haslam -- "Old Lad" / Michael Haslam -- "Usk" / Paul Henry -- "The Elephant Whose Sturgeon-like Blood" / Selima Hill -- "Re-entry" / Sheila Hillier -- "Death of Orpheus" / Sarah Howe -- "The Corpse Road" / Joanna Ingham -- "River Dove" / Anthony Joseph -- "Tawpie" / Annie Katchinska -- from "I, Giraffe" / David Kinloch -- "The Arch" / Janet Kofi-Tsekpo -- "A Shrunken Head" / Frances Leviston -- "Deleted Scene (The Frog)" / Tim Liardet -- from "The Mystic and The Pig Thief" / Fran Lock -- "Ballast Flint" / Richie McCaffery -- "Old Mutha Riah. Hoxton 1935" / Karen McCarthy Woolf -- "King Billy's Nemesis" / Jamie McKendrick -- "Water Cure" / Michael McKimm -- "Too Big a Part" / Hugh McMillan -- "What Will Happen To The Neighbours When The Earth Floods?" / Kathryn Maris -- "Bob's Dogs" / Hilary Menos -- "Bog Bodies" / Harriet Moore -- "The Drowned Fields" / Kim Moore -- "Ballad of the Moon, Moon" / David Morley -- "Passed" / Graham Mort -- "Free style" / Stephanie Norgate -- "Sardines" / Bernard O'Donoghue -- "Immigrant Song" / Richard Owens -- "Ripples on New Grass" / Ruth Padel -- "Pomegranate" / Alasdair Paterson -- "An unborn child wonders if it's worth it" / Anita Pati -- "Sole" / Eleanor Perry -- "Notre Dame Father" / Pascale Petit -- "Lunarian" / Jacob Polley -- "After" / Caroline Price -- "High Wall" / Anne Rouse -- "Experience" / Kathryn Simmonds -- "The Man in the Moone" / Zoe Skoulding -- "wulfmonath" / Linus Slug -- "It's astonishing" / Anne Stevenson -- "The Curtain" / Greta Stoddart -- "Sing Bird" / Claire Trevien -- "The Life Cycle of the Fly" / Mark Waldron -- "Marstrand" / Rory Waterman -- "Delft" / Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch -- "Questions about the Demon Taotie" / Yang Lian -- "The Birds" / Jane Yeh.
Summary:
'The Best British Poetry 2012' presents the finest and most engaging poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK poetry. Each poem is accompanied by a note by the poet explaining the inspiration for the poem.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.