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The New British Poetry was a poetry anthology from 1988

1988 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The first annual The Best American Poetry volume is published this year....

, jointly edited by Gillian Allnutt

Gillian Allnutt

Gillian Allnutt is an English poet who now lives in Esh Winning, County Durham. Her books Nantucket and the Angel and Lintel were both shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2001/02 and 2002/03 she was a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow, partly at Newcastle University...

, Fred D'Aguiar

Fred D'Aguiar

Fred D'Aguiar is an author of poetry, novels, and drama.D'Aguiar was born in London. His parents were Guyanese. He spent his childhood, from the age of two to twelve, in Guyana. His work has received much, and growing, acclaim. His Bill of Rights, about the Jonestown Massacre of 1978, was a...

, Ken Edwards

Ken Edwards

Ken Edwards is a poet, editor, writer and musician who has lived in England since 1968. He is associated with The British Poetry Revival....

and Eric Mottram

Eric Mottram

Eric Mottram was a teacher, critic, editor and poet who was one of the central figures in the British Poetry Revival.-Early life and education:...

, respectively concerned with feminist, Black British

Black British

Black British is a term used to describe British people of Black African descent, especially those of Afro-Caribbean background. The term has been used from the 1950s to refer to Black people from former British colonies in the West Indies and Africa, who are residents of the United Kingdom and...

, younger experimental and British poetry revival

British Poetry Revival

The British Poetry Revival is the general name given to a loose poetry movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The revival was a modernist-inspired reaction to the Movement's more conservative approach to British poetry.-Beginnings:...

poets. The time frame involved was 1968-1988. The book's general editor was John Muckle

John Muckle

John Muckle is a British writer who has published works of fiction, poetry and criticism.Born in Kingston-upon-Thames, he grew up in the village of Cobham, Surrey, and has lived most of his adult life in Essex and London. After failing his eleven-plus, Muckle attended a local secondary modern...

, the founder of the Paladin Poetry Series

Paladin Poetry Series

Paladin Poetry was a series of paperback books published by Grafton Books under its Paladin imprint, intended to bring modernist and radical poetry before a wider audience...

Poets in The New British Poetry

John Agard

John Agard is an Afro-Guyanese playwright, poet and children's writer, now living in the United Kingdom.-Background:...

- Gillian Allnutt

Gillian Allnutt

- Iftikar Arif - Tony Baker

Tony Baker

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- Sophie Behrens - Asa Benveniste

Asa Benveniste

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- James Berry

James Berry

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- Valerie Bloom

Valerie Bloom

Valerie Bloom MBE is a poet and a novelist.-Early years:She was born in Clarendon, Jamaica in 1956 and later moved to England in 1979. She attended the University of Kent at Canterbury and earned an honours degree, and was later awarded an honorary Masters degree...

- Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland

-Biography:Boland's father, Frederick Boland, was a career diplomat and her mother, Frances Kelly, was a noted post-expressionist painter. She was born in Dublin in 1944. At the age of six, Boland's father was appointed Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom; the family followed him to London,...

- Jean "Binta" Breeze - Paul Brown - Richard Caddel

Richard Caddel

Richard Caddel was a poet, publisher and editor who was a key figure in the British Poetry Revival.-Biography:Caddel was born in Bedford and grew up in Gillingham, Kent. He studied music at the University of Newcastle, but changed to English after meeting poets Basil Bunting and Tom Pickard...

- B. Catling - Faustin Charles - Cris Cheek

Cris Cheek

Cris Cheek is a British poet, artist, interdisciplinary performer and academic currently resident at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Born in London in 1955, he lived and worked there until the early 1990s. One early influence was working alongside Bob Cobbing at the Poetry Society and the...

- Thomas A. Clark - Bob Cobbing

Bob Cobbing

Bob Cobbing was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival.-Early life:...

- Merle Collins

Merle Collins

-Life:Her parents are Grenadian, they returned there shorty after her birth.She studied in St Georges.a degree in English and Spanish, in 1972.She taught History and Spanish in Grenada, and in St Lucia....

- Kelvin Corcoran - Jeni Couzyn - Andrew Crozier

Andrew Crozier

Andrew Thomas Knights Crozier was a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival.-Life:Crozier was educated at Dulwich College, and later Christ's College, Cambridge. His 1976 book Pleats won the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, awarded jointly that year with Lee Harwood...

- David Dabydeen

David Dabydeen

David Dabydeen is a Guyanese-born critic, writer and novelist.Dabydeen was born in Berbice, Guyana, his birth registered at New Amsterdam Registrar of Births as David Horace Clarence Harilal Sookram...

- Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's poet laureate in May 2009...

- Andrew Duncan

Andrew Duncan (poet)

Andrew Duncan is a British poet, critic, and editor. The author of at least seven books of poetry, including Anxiety Before Entering a Room Selected Poems 1977–99...

- Ken Edwards

Ken Edwards

Ken Edwards is a poet, editor, writer and musician who has lived in England since 1968. He is associated with The British Poetry Revival....

- Paul Evans

Paul Evans (poet)

Paul Evans was an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival. He is included in the anthology British Poetry since 1945 and the 1969 anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain....

- Alison Fell

Alison Fell

-Life:Alison Fell graduated from Edinburgh Art College and began writing for Scotland Magazine. She moved to London in 1970, where she co-founded the Woman's Street Theatre Group...

- Peter Finch

Peter Finch

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- Allen Fisher

Allen Fisher

Allen Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher, teacher and performer associated with the British Poetry Revival.Fisher was born in London and started writing poetry in 1962. His early long project Place was published in a series of books and pamphlets in the 1970s. He worked on a project called...

- Roy Fisher

Roy Fisher

Roy Fisher is a British poet and jazz pianist. He was one of the first British writers to absorb the poetics of William Carlos Williams and the Black Mountain poets into the British poetic tradition. Fisher was a key precursor of the British Poetry Revival.Fisher was born in Handsworth, Birmingham...

- Errol Francis

Errol Francis

Errol Anthony Francis, born in Oracabessa, Jamaica in 1956, is an artist and mental health campaigner, living and working in London.He gained his MA Fine Art from Central St Martins College of Art and Design in 2004...

- Ulli Freer - Gabriel Gbadamosi - Glenda George - Angie Gilligan - Bill Griffiths

Bill Griffiths

Bill Griffiths was a poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar associated with the British Poetry Revival.-Overview:...

- Caroline Halliday - Lee Harwood

Lee Harwood

Lee Harwood is a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival.-Life:Travers Rafe Lee Harwood was born in Leicester to maths teacher Wilfred Travers Lee-Harwood and Grace Ladkin Harwood, who were then living in Chertsey, Surrey...

- Ralph Hawkins

Ralph Hawkins

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- David Haynes

David Haynes

David Haynes is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the West Coast Eagles and Geelong in the Australian Football League ....

- A. L. Hendriks

A. L. Hendriks

Arthur Lemiere Hendriks was a Jamaican poet, writer, and broadcasting director . He was born in 1922 in Kingston, Jamaica, to a Jamaican father and a French mother. He was father to five daughters and two sons. Mr...

- Selima Hill

Selima Hill

-Life:She read at Cambridge University. She was a Fellow at University of Exeter.She lives in Lyme Regis.-Awards:* 1986 Cholmondeley Award* Arvon Poetry Prize* Whitbread Poetry Award* University of East Anglia Writing Fellowship...

- Frances Horowitz - Libby Houston - Mahmood Jamal - John James

John James (poet)

John James is a British poet.- Biography :John James was born 1939 in Cardiff and was educated at Saint Illtyd’s College there. He left the college in 1957 to read Philosophy and English Literature at the University of Bristol and later undertook postgraduate studies in American Literature at the...

- Maria Jastrzebska - Amryl Johnson - Linton Kwesi Johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson is a UK-based dub poet. He became the second living poet, and the only black poet, to be published in the Penguin Classics series. His poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican Patois over dub-reggae, usually written in collaboration with renowned British...

- Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay MBE is a Scottish poet and novelist.-Biography:Jackie Kay was born in Glasgow in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father, Jonathan C. Okafor who later became a prominent tropical plant taxonomist...

- Tom Leonard

Tom Leonard (poet)

Tom Leonard is a Scottish poet, best known for his poems written in Glaswegian dialect.Tom Leonard has been part of the Scottish literary renaissance for the past forty years...

- Liz Lochhead

Liz Lochhead

Liz Lochhead is a Scottish poet and dramatist, originally from Newarthill in North Lanarkshire.-Background:After attending Glasgow School of Art, Lochhead lectured in fine art for eight years before becoming a professional writer....

- John C. M. Lyons - Barry MacSweeney

Barry MacSweeney

Barry MacSweeney was an English poet and journalist.-Life and work:Barry MacSweeney was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. He worked as a professional journalist throughout most of his life...

- E. A. Markham

E. A. Markham

Edward Archie Markham FRSL was a poet and writer, born in Harris, Montserrat, and mainly resident in the United Kingdom from 1956. Known for poetry in both "nation-language" and standard English, for short stories and a comic novel, he sometimes used the pseudonym Paul St. Vincent and other...

- Sue May - David Miller

David Miller (poet)

David Miller is a writer, poet, literary critic, and editor. He has lived in London since 1972.He has published over fifty books and pamphlets. His first books were The Caryatids and South London Mix , both published in 1975...

- Lotte Moos

Lotte Moos

Margarete Charlotte Moos was politically active poet and playwright.-Early life:Margarete Charlotte Jacoby, daughter of Samuel and Luise Jacoby, was born in Berlin on 9th December 1909...

- Geraldine Monk

Geraldine Monk

Geraldine Monk is a British poet. She was born in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1952. Since the late 1970s, she has published many collections of poetry and has recorded her poetry in collaboration with musicians...

- Eric Mottram

Eric Mottram

Eric Mottram was a teacher, critic, editor and poet who was one of the central figures in the British Poetry Revival.-Early life and education:...

- Wendy Mulford

Wendy Mulford

Wendy Mulford is a British poet, associated with the contemporary avant garde scene, with the British Poetry Revival, and with the development of feminist poetry in 1970s. Her poetry has been viewed as "difficult to categorise" and as "multi- and non-linear"...

- Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols is a Guyanese poet. She was born in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1950. After working in Guyana as a teacher and journalist, she emigrated to the UK in 1977. Much of her poetry is characterised by Caribbean rhythms and culture, and influenced by Guyanese and Amerindian folklore.Her first...

- Jeff Nuttall

Jeff Nuttall

Jeff Nuttall was an English poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, anarchist sympathiser and social commentator who was a key part of the British 1960s counter-culture. He was the brother of literary critic A. D. Nuttall.-Life and work:Jeff Nuttall was born in Clitheroe,...

- Douglas Oliver

Douglas Oliver

Douglas Dunlop Oliver was a poet, novelist, editor, and educator. The author of more than a dozen works, Oliver came into poetry not as an academic but through a career in journalism, notably in Cambridge, Paris, and Coventry, before attending the University of Essex in the 1970s. He received a...

- Albie Ollivierre - Maggie O'Sullivan

Maggie O'Sullivan

Maggie O'Sullivan is a British poet, performer and visual artist associated with the British Poetry Revival.O'Sullivan was born in Lincoln, England of Irish immigrant parents. She moved to London in 1971 and worked for the BBC until 1988. Her early work appeared in magazines such as Angel Exhaust...

- Evangeline Paterson - Tom Pickard

Tom Pickard

Tom Pickard is a poet, radio and film maker who was an important initiator of the movement known as the British Poetry Revival....

- Elaine Randell - Tom Raworth

Tom Raworth

Tom Raworth is a London-born poet and visual artist who has published over forty books of poetry and prose since 1966. His works has been translated and published in many countries. Raworth is a key figure in the British Poetry Revival. He lives in Brighton, England.-Early life and work:Raworth...

- Denise Riley

Denise Riley

Denise Riley is an English poet and philosopher who began to be published in the 1970s. Her poetry is remarkable for its paradoxical interrogation of selfhood within the lyric mode. Her critical writings on motherhood, women in history, identity, and philosophy of language, are recognised as an...

- Peter Riley

Peter Riley

Peter Riley is a contemporary English poet, essayist, and editor. Riley is known as a Cambridge poet, part of the group vaguely associated with J. H. Prynne which today is acknowledged as an important epicenter of innovative poetry in the United Kingdom. Riley was an editor and major contributor...

- Michèle Roberts

Michèle Roberts

Michèle Brigitte Roberts is a British writer, novelist and poet. Roberts was the daughter of a French Catholic teacher mother and English Protestant father ; she has dual UK-France nationality.-Early life:She was raised in Edgware, Middlesex and educated at a convent, expecting to become a nun,...

- Gavin Selerie - Robert Sheppard - Colin Simms - Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair FRSL is a British writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, most recently within the influences of psychogeography.-Life and work:...

- Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay MBE is an award-winning British author and broadcaster of Ethiopian and Eritrean parents.He is known for performances of his poetry and also with jazz fusion groups. He is a playwright, and has worked on radio and television...

- Ken Smith

Ken Smith (poet)

Ken Smith was a British poet.-Life:He was son of a farm labourer, and he had an itinerant childhood...

- Janet Sutherland - Levi Tafari

Levi Tafari

Levi Tafari was born and raised in the city of Liverpool by his Jamaican parents. He attended catering college, where he studied classical French cuisine and graduated with distinction. In the early 1980s, while working as a caterer, he started attending the Liverpool 8 Writers Workshop and decided...

- Gael Turnbull

Gael Turnbull

Gael Turnbull was a Scottish poet who was an important precursor of the British Poetry Revival.Turnbull was born in Edinburgh and grew up in the North of England and in Canada...

- Michelene Wandor

Michelene Wandor

Michelene Dinah Wandor is an English playwright, critic, broadcaster, poet, lecturer, and musician...

- John Wilkinson

John Wilkinson (poet)

John Wilkinson is a contemporary English poet.From 1972 to 1975, he studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, where he founded, with Charlie Bulbeck and Charles Lambert, the Blue Room, a society devoted to the propagation of poetry and the other fine arts.His first publication,...

Poets in The New British Poetry

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