Book description
For two decades New Poetries has been a proving-ground for new poets in
English from around the world. Here readers first encountered, in
generous selections, work by, among others, Caroline Bird, Stephen Burt,
Sophie Hannah, Emma Jones, Nicole Krauss, Patrick McGuinness, Kei
Miller, David Morley, Sinéad Morrissey, Togara Muzanenhamo, Matthew
Welton and Jane Yeh. Published from Manchester, the anthologies overlook
national borders, instead providing vistas across a worldscape. 'There
is still an abundance of poetic talent out there, and people vigilant
enough to notice it. Give it a go. You'll like it.' - Nicholas Lezard,
The Guardian Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL is Professor of Poetry at the
University of Glasgow, where he is also convenor of the Creative Writing
M Litt Programme. He is a founder and the Editorial and Managing
Director of Carcanet Press and founder and general Editor of PN Review.
He has published several collections of poems, two novels, a number of
anthologies and volumes of literary history, and two books of
translations. Eleanor Crawforth read English Literature at Cambridge
before joining Carcanet Press in 2005. She has an MA in Post-1900
Literatures, Theories & Cultures from the University of Manchester.
She is 'News & Notes' editor of PN Review and writes for the
magazine. She co-edited the anthologies New Poetries IV (2007) and New
Poetries V (2011) and is currently editing Letters to an Editor, a
volume of literary correspondence from the Carcanet archive (to be
published in 2013).
