Poetry Book Society Special Commendation
An anthology celebrating 100 years of one of the UK’s leading poetry magazines. “Poetry Review” was founded in 1909. Its first editor was Harold Monro who, in refusing the editorship of the Poetry Society’s in-house “Poetical Gazette” and holding out instead for editorial independence, set the standard for today’s journal. It is the UK’s poetry magazine of record and its editors have included Muriel Spark, Adrian Henri, Douglas Dunn, and Andrew Motion. Among its contributors are many of the twentieth century’s greatest poets.
‘It’s always been the great distinction – and the great opportunity – of Poetry Review to be at once a beacon and a lighthouse: as interested in providing a centre for good writing, as it is in establishing and representing a wide curiosity about the many forms that good writing might take. It’s especially heartening to see the magazine in such excellent health in this, its centenary year.’
Andrew Motion
‘a fascinating collection, nevertheless, and proof, should anyone require it, that British poetry is alive and kicking’
Blake Morrison in The Guardian