By James Langer
As promised during the Radio Fiddlehead podcast, here is a list of my ten favorite poetry collections published in Britain and Ireland over the past decade (in no particular order). This isn't pretending to be a "Best Of" list by any means, so if you're reading this and notice something's missing, feel free to fill in my blanks.
By Anita Lahey
This is “a” Top 10, not “the” Top 10 — on another day, other collections may have come more forcefully to mind. Poetry is like that. The list is in order by title, not by rank.
By Ross Leckie
I decided to take books off my shelf in a bit of an arbitrary fashion, focusing on first books or books that didn’t receive enough attention, in my view. On another day it would be a different set of books.
Our most recent Radio Fiddlehead Podcast is a round table on the best poetry books of the 2000’s featuring James Langer, Sharon McCartney, and Anita Lahey.
In the comments please enter your own lists! Say why you like the books you are listing.