Publisher's Synopsis
Featuring poetry by:
Jane Draycott
Robert Saxton
Maureen Duffy
Stephen Romer
N.S. Thompson
Peter Howard
Peter Scupham
Anthony Hecht
Lucy Newlyn
Charles Tomlinson
Carmen Bugan
OxfordPoets 2001, the second OxfordPoets anthology, fulfils two functions. It reminds readers of some of the leading new and older figures on the Oxford list, including substantial extracts from their work in progress. It also continues the work that the first anthology so notably did, introducing poetry by new writers-but it now does so in
the context of the OxfordPoets list as a whole.
The variety of work - in its provenance, its formal choices and its thematic concerns - is impressive. All the poems here are marked by a keen intelligence of purpose and design, however various those purposes are and however experimental or traditional the design.
The anthology, while reaffirming the rich tradition of the Oxford list, now under the imprint of Carcanet and in association with the English Faculty of the University of
Oxford, also breaks new ground. First collections that have followed from the OxfordPoets anthology of 2000 include those of Rebecca Elson and Joe Sheerin.
