Oxford Poets 2013: An Anthology

Overview

The latest anthology in a renowned series that has featured writers such as Charles Tomlinson, Rebecca Elson, and the Nobel Prize–winning Joseph Brodsky, Oxford Poets 2013 includes 19 poets whose work is marked by wit, imagination, and thematic range. The collection celebrates the vibrancy and vitality of new writing today and includes poets Gregor Addison, Emily Ballou, Paul Batchelor, Riina Katajavuori, Frances Leviston, and Leonie Rushforth, among others. The individual voices are distinctive, yet they share a commitment to the truth of their experience and an excitement with the possibilities of language.

Reviews

“There are some fine poets collected here . . . as a showcase of an upcoming generation . . . we have something genuinely worthwhile.â€Â  —Sarah Crown, Guardian

Author Biography

Iain Galbraith is a poet whose work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Best Scottish Poems, Edinburgh Review, New Writing Scotland, PN Review, Poetry Review, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is an English–German translator and a winner of the John Dryden Translation Prize, awarded jointly by the British Center for Literary Translation and British Comparative Literature Association. Robyn Marsack is the director of the Scottish Poetry Library and the coeditor of the anthology Twenty Contemporary New Zealand Poets.