Flossing
Andrew O’Hagan: Pukey poetry anthologies, 4 November 2004
Poems to Last a Lifetime
edited by Daisy Goodwin.
HarperCollins, 308 pp., £18.99, October 2004,0 00 717707 0 Show More
edited by Daisy Goodwin.
HarperCollins, 308 pp., £18.99, October 2004,
All the Poems You Need to Say I Do
edited by Peter Forbes.
Picador, 197 pp., £10, October 2004,0 330 43388 1 Show More
edited by Peter Forbes.
Picador, 197 pp., £10, October 2004,
“... doubts it; everybody’s buying.2 This thinking has now been applied to the tired world of British poetry, which has long been in need of a specialist makeover, what with all those lisping ladies in tweed suits and National Health spectacles. The self-help treatment wouldn’t have worked in poetry, though, if it hadn’t ... ”