The third of an ongoing series of anthologies, I am twenty people! celebrates The Poetry School's tenth anniversary in style. Adventurous, unorthodox, playfully serious and seriously playful, these new poets explore their different worlds with confidence and panache. Nothing, it seems, is off limits, neither political engagement nor experimental audacity. From the intimate lyric to the historical narrative, the poetry gathered in I am twenty people! is more than simply a promise of future achievement. Offering, from each of its twenty poets, selections from a mature body of work that will surely lead to outstanding first collections, here is an anthology that stands in its own right as a hallmark of the best of new writing in Britain today. ALICE ALLEN · LINDA BLACK · JEMMA BORG · CAROLE BROMLEY · CLAIRE CROWTHER · PATRICK EARLY · LUCY HAMILTON · LOUISA HOOPER · VALERIE JOSEPHS · JENNY LEWIS · MARY MACRAE · LORRAINE MARINER · BARBARA MARSH · KAREN MCCARTHY · DAVID PENN · DERRICK PORTER · SHAZEA QURAISHI · KATHRYN SIMMONDS · SARADHA SOOBRAYEN · KAY SYRAD
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About the Author:
Mimi Khalvati was born in Iran and grew up on the Isle of Wight. Her five collections include her Selected Poems (2000) and The Chine (2002). She is the founder of The Poetry School and has co-edited its anthologies of new writing, Tying the Song (with Pascale Petit) and Entering the Tapestry (with Graham Fawcett), published by Enitharmon Press. She currently holds a Royal Literary Fund fellowship at City University. In 2006 she received a Cholmondeley Award and a new collection, The Meanest Flower, is forthcoming in 2007. Stephen Knight's books of poetry include Flowering Limbs and Dream City Cinema ( both shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot prize), as well as a novel, Mr Schnitzel . Awards include first prize in the 1992 National Poetry Competition. He is a creative-writing tutor for adults in colleges and part of the University of Glamorgan's MPhil in Writing.
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