The Direction of Poetry: An Anthology of Rhymed and Metered Verse Written in the English Language Since 1975

by Robert Richman

First Edition 1988 First Printing.

Genres: Poetry

168 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1988

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's hard to review this book with the star system because I have to comment on both the editor and the actual poets. The editor worked for the New Criterion, which is a crappy conservative magazine edited by that blowhard Roger Kimball but it does have a really good poetry section. So that motivated me to get to this. Also I like metrical poetry. The collection here is inconsistent but that's a matter of personal taste. The bigger problem is that not all the poetry here is metrical so I feel a little cheated.

The Seamus Heaney poem here and a few others make it a worthwhile purchase, though.