Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry

Essential reading for all poets and readers, for critics, teachers and students of creative writing. This judicious and comprehensive selection of manifestos by some of modern poetry´s finest practitioners starts with Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Auden, Stevens, Lowell, Plath and other key figures, then brings the issues fully up to date with over 30 specially commissioned essays from leading contemporary writers, amounting to a new overview of the poetry being written at the start of the 21st century. BBC Radio 3´s Book of the Month.