Mark Ford’s previous anthology covered the New York School: Ashbery, O’Hara, Schuyler and Koch. This second anthology covers the work of 11 poets, for the most part friends and lovers of those four, who built on the stylistic innovation of their predecessors to create a poetic tradition of unruly vitality. Most of the work here will be new to British readers, and there is much that deserves a far wider distribution. Here is ‘Dusk’ by Joseph Ceravolo:

Before the dusk grows deeper
now comes a little moth dressed in
rose pink, wings bordered with yellow. Now
a tiger moth, now another and another another.£12.95

Carcanet Press Ltd | Paperback 228 pp. |ISBN: 9781857548211