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This ambitious anthology offers a rewarding glimpse into the health of current poetry, bringing together 50 poets aged from 18 to 26 who have yet to publish their first full-length collection. It’s a coup for the editors to have found work of such potential. What is immediately striking is the extraordinary range and variety presented here, from the colloquial energy and playfulness of Ashna Sarkar (‘Trawlerman is the most southerly chippie in North Weezy / to do chips with onion gravy’) to Andrew Jamison’s mock-casual meditation on Northern Irish life (‘touching down to a province of ‘politics’ – / we’d call it something else if there was a word for it’), from Oli Hazzard’s deft Ashbery-influenced manoeuvres to Jay Bernard’s compelling ‘11.16’, which bitterly reworks graffiti in a station toilet to evoke Larkin’s famous opening lines: ‘They fuck you up the government / You may not know it but they see / That you’re a mug and so you’ll spend / Nine grand on what they got for free.’ (Charles Bainbridge The Guardian )
The 10 Best Valentine’s gifts. Poetry is always a winner. This anthology showcases the new crop of young British poets and runs the gamut from lovey-dovey stuff to verses about technology. (Samuel Muston The Independent )
What is most lovely to see in the Salt anthology is a wide range of well-written experimental poetry. Rachael Allen produces some stunningly controlled prose poems under that heading. Phil Brown plays with an impressive crossword poem, entitled ‘Diptych’. Amy De’Ath writes tongue-tripping poems reminiscent of free association, setting up meaningful sound echoes that work the brain and are pleasant on the ear. Witness this from ‘Poetry for Boys’. At the other end of the scale, poets such as Emily Tesh, Jack Underwood, James Brooks, Ben Wilkinson and Dai George are writing lavish, well-executed and fairly conventional lyrics that seek to communicate directly with the reader. Jack Belloli, too, wants to speak clearly, to be both accurate and resonant with language (‘Yurt’). Sarah Howe is another original. Her poems surprise and hotwire themselves into your brain as you read. (Jane Holland Poetry Society )
The Salt Book of Younger Poets is both valuable, as an introduction to future big names and an indication of trends in the most contemporary poetry, and enjoyable, as an anthology of intelligent and energetic writing. (Tess Somervell Tower Poetry )
The 10 Best Valentine’s gifts. Poetry is always a winner. This anthology showcases the new crop of young British poets and runs the gamut from lovey-dovey stuff to verses about technology. (Samuel Muston The Independent )
What is most lovely to see in the Salt anthology is a wide range of well-written experimental poetry. Rachael Allen produces some stunningly controlled prose poems under that heading. Phil Brown plays with an impressive crossword poem, entitled ‘Diptych’. Amy De’Ath writes tongue-tripping poems reminiscent of free association, setting up meaningful sound echoes that work the brain and are pleasant on the ear. Witness this from ‘Poetry for Boys’. At the other end of the scale, poets such as Emily Tesh, Jack Underwood, James Brooks, Ben Wilkinson and Dai George are writing lavish, well-executed and fairly conventional lyrics that seek to communicate directly with the reader. Jack Belloli, too, wants to speak clearly, to be both accurate and resonant with language (‘Yurt’). Sarah Howe is another original. Her poems surprise and hotwire themselves into your brain as you read. (Jane Holland Poetry Society )
The Salt Book of Younger Poets is both valuable, as an introduction to future big names and an indication of trends in the most contemporary poetry, and enjoyable, as an anthology of intelligent and energetic writing. (Tess Somervell Tower Poetry )
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Lumsden hosts a supremely eclectic party for 85 "new" British and Irish poets — more women than men, for once — whose newness turns on book-length debuts within the past 15 years rather than calendar age. (Boyd Tonkin The Independent )
Identity Parade is an anthology which clearly achieves its objective of introducing its audience to a broad-church of today’s talent. (Phil Brown Hand + Star )
Identity Parade is an anthology which clearly achieves its objective of introducing its audience to a broad-church of today’s talent. (Phil Brown Hand + Star )
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
You can't tell from the picture, but this is a bumper book - a massive treasury, cleanly presented, which tells you more about what's really happening in British poetry than the last half decade of TS Eliot awards, Forward prizes and Guardian Saturday poems. Lumsden and Stonborough have plugged into an abundant vein of energy, ingenuity and optimism that should make even the most cynical person excited about the future of poetry in this country.
Really, honestly, you should leave preconceived notions of what 'youthful' poetry means at the door. The poems here are neither part of a self-conscious, intellectually contrived 'movement' conceived in a university pub, nor post-adolescent lovelorn wailings. Rather, the range of techniques, influences and stylistic choices on display speak of a deference to many strong traditions, new and old, in British poetry, married to a restlesssness and compulsion to strike out in new directions. Conversely, there's no sense whatsoever of arrogance or entitlement or privileged chummery. If you're the kind of person whose mind is blown, your mind will be blown. If, like me, you tend to appreciate things more soberly and quietly, and with some initial reluctance, you'll still come round fairly quickly to just how good some of these poems are, and go on slowly discovering more to admire for weeks, or even months.
If you still have your doubts, at least try to read Stonborough's introduction, which meets most imaginable misgivings head-on and, at the very least, gives them a run for their money.
There are possible reasons, I suppose, to not get hold of a copy - if you find an abundance of young, engaged and talented people intimidating, it's sometimes a struggle to get through more than a couple of pages without turning to drink. Equally, if you're terrified of accidentally fancying someone much younger than you, be warned - there are photographs.
Really, honestly, you should leave preconceived notions of what 'youthful' poetry means at the door. The poems here are neither part of a self-conscious, intellectually contrived 'movement' conceived in a university pub, nor post-adolescent lovelorn wailings. Rather, the range of techniques, influences and stylistic choices on display speak of a deference to many strong traditions, new and old, in British poetry, married to a restlesssness and compulsion to strike out in new directions. Conversely, there's no sense whatsoever of arrogance or entitlement or privileged chummery. If you're the kind of person whose mind is blown, your mind will be blown. If, like me, you tend to appreciate things more soberly and quietly, and with some initial reluctance, you'll still come round fairly quickly to just how good some of these poems are, and go on slowly discovering more to admire for weeks, or even months.
If you still have your doubts, at least try to read Stonborough's introduction, which meets most imaginable misgivings head-on and, at the very least, gives them a run for their money.
There are possible reasons, I suppose, to not get hold of a copy - if you find an abundance of young, engaged and talented people intimidating, it's sometimes a struggle to get through more than a couple of pages without turning to drink. Equally, if you're terrified of accidentally fancying someone much younger than you, be warned - there are photographs.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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A must-read if you're interested in the future of poetry! I have no doubt that many of the wonderful voices in this anthology are important poets whose work we will be reading for many years to come. And there is such a variety of stimulating, funny, thoughtful and moving poems here that I'm sure I will find myself returning to it, leafing through for something to match my mood.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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It is hard to keep tabs on all the up and coming talent and new voices in the poetry world, and this is why it is so brilliant to see a hearty selection of them collated here. The fact that each poet has a selection of 3-5 poems, a photo and a small biography is fantastic to get a real sense of each individual. Some poets are already becoming familiar faces and it will be exciting to see how they all progress. I have passed this book around the students I teach to give them an idea of what the most vibrant and exciting poetry is at the moment. They all had a lot of fun choosing their favourites and comparing/contrasting. Very inspiring stuff !
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