The Best New British & Irish Poets 2018

by Maggie Smith (Editor)

Overview

Poetry. Modelled on the famous United States competition, the third annual Best New British and Irish Poets competition was open to any poet of British or Irish citizenship and/or UK or Irish residency who has not yet published or will not publish a full-length collection of poetry. This anthology comprises work by some of the biggest rising stars and new talents in these isles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781912477043
Publisher:	Continental Sales, Inc.
Publication date:	05/13/2018
Pages:	100
Product dimensions:	6.05(w) x 9.11(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Maggie Smith is the author of GOOD BONES (Tupelo Press, 2017); THE WELL SPEAKS OF ITS OWN POISON (Tupelo Press 2015), winner of the Dorset Prize and the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal in Poetry; Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press 2005), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award; and three prizewinning chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Southern Review, Magma, Waxwing, Virginia Quarterly Review, Guernica, and many other journals. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Smith is a freelance writer and editor, and she serves as a consulting editor to the Kenyon Review.

Table of Contents

Introduction Maggie Smith 8

M.J. Arlett 15

Kate Caoimhe Arthur 18

Caroline Boreham 20

Joe Caldwell 23

Joe Carrick-Varty 25

Fiona Cartwright 27

Mary Jean Chan 30

Geraldine Clarkson 32

Hannah Copley 34

Evan Costigan 37

Anne Cousins 39

Nicola Daly 41

Michael Dooley 43

James Finnegan 45

Shirley Gorby 47

Dominic Hand 50

Caroline Hardaker 53

A. D. Harper 55

Carina Hart 57

Colin Hassard 59

Emily Holt 61

Julie Irigaray 63

Shannon Kelly 66

Alice Kinsella 69

Fiona Larkin 71

O Mayeux 73

David McCarthy 75

Eamon McGuinness 77

Reiss McGuinness 80

Paul McMahon 82

Cynthia Miller 86

Audrey Molloy 88

Clan Murphy 91

Alycia Pirmohamed 93

Kerry Priest 95

Michael Ray 97

Shauna Robertson 99

Lenni Sanders 101

Breda Spaight 103

Alexandra Strnad 105

Sarah Stutt 108

Rosamund Taylor 110

Jonathan Totman 113

Sarah Wallis 115

Jack Warren 117

Susan Watson 119

Christian Wethered 121

Mariah Whelan 123

James A.H. White 125

Patrick Wright 129