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27/05/2012

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Anthologies

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Duration: 45 minutes

Popular anthologies might have increased the readership of contemporary poetry but have they increased understanding? Ian McMillan and his guest explore some of the much-loved and influential tomes so many of us read from school-days on. Neil Astley and and Michael Schmidt debate the blockbuster anthologies of recent years. Poet and anthologist Roddy Lumsden spots young talent and isn't afraid to use the provocative title 'Best British Poetry' while Kevin Jackson presents an anthology of weird and wonderful anthologies from the past and looks at the roots of the curated collection of poetry. Claire Allfree considers the market for and marketing of the these weighty volumes. And, the poet Gwyneth Lewis with a new Verb commission imagining the anthology as a poetry gymnasium and a poet's perspective on what it means to be in, and out of a new anthology.

  • RODDY LUMSDEN

    Roddy Lumsden's new collection Terrific Melancholy is published by Bloodaxe.

    Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets by Roddy Lumsden is published by Bloodaxe.

    The Salt Book of Younger Poets by Roddy Lumsden and Eloise Stonborough is forthcoming from Salt Best British Poems 2011 and will be published in August.

  • NEIL ASTLEY

    Neil Astley edited Staying Alive, Being Alive and Being Human which are all published by Bloodaxe Books.

    Bloodaxe Books
  • MICHAEL SCHMIDT

    New Poetries: v. 5 by Michael Schmidt is forthcoming from Carcanet.

    Michael Schmidt's website
  • GWYNETH LEWIS

    Gwyneth Lewis's website
  • ANTHOLOGIES MENTIONED IN THE PROGRAMME

    Some of anthologies mentioned include:

    The Rattlebag edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes published by Faber and Faber

    British Poetry Since 1945 edited by Edward Lucie-Smith published by Penguin

    Poetry 1900-1965 edited By George Macbeth published by Longman

    Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages by Walter de le Mare published by Faber and Faber

    The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse edited by Roger Lonsdale published by Oxford University Press

    Planet and Glow Worm edited by Edith Sitwell published by Macmillan

    Minorities; good poems by small poets and small poems by good poets by T. E. Lawrence published by Garden City N.Y. Doubleday

    The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse edited by D.J Enright published by Oxford University Press

    The Penguin Book Of Contemporary British Poetry edited by Andrew Motion and Blake Morrison published by Penguin

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