'Anyone interested in what the best of young poetic talent in the UK sounds like right now is, I think, in for a treat. There’s a pleasingly vernacular freshness of voice: sure but searching, rooted but expansive; and there’s a beguiling variety of style and subject manner.' (Preface)
Contents:
Gorse Fires; Cameraman; Halloween; Bleaklow – Hunting for limpets; Elegy for Michelangelo; Pomegranate – The Pelican; The Silences; Pheasant’s Wood; Sonnet – Amateur Advice for Living; Thoughts on the music of a room; London Sonnet; PotatOde – Planting Hollyhocks; The Birdman- Death of a character; Riddle; Lavender; Post-war Japan in paint – The Innocence/Guilt of the Mayor of Figueres; The Outsider’s Observation of the Wedding; Kissing Sappho – A premature elegy for that time; Threadbare, Lovely; A Matter Of Course – November; The Voyage Out ; Twitching – For Katie (and Katie); When you were thirty-five; Choristers; Not a ‘love’ poem – You, ending; Unhero; Balloon Song – Plenty; Train; The Penumbras – The Rabbit in the Road is an Offering from your Bad Dreams; ALL THOSE NOW LIVING WILL NEVER DIE.
Edited by Alan Gillis and Kevin Young, with contributions from Sophie Clarke, Millie Guille, Dom Hale, Ruth Irwin, Elizabeth Johnson, Clare Mulley, Camille Ralphs, Abigail Richards, Hannah Tran, Will Tyas, Molly Underwood, Phoebe Walker, and Charles Whalley.