Places of Poetry: Mapping the Nation in Verse

by Paul Farley (Editor), Andrew McRae (Editor)

Presenting the best poems from the nationwide Places of Poetry project, selected from over 7,500 entries

Poetry lives in the veins of Britain, its farms and moors, its motorways and waterways, highlands and beaches.

This anthology brings together time-honoured classics with some of the best new writing collected across the nation, from great monuments to forgotten byways.

Featuring new writing from Kayo Chingonyi, Gillian Clarke, Zaffar Kunial, Jo Bell and Jen Hadfield, Places of Poetry is a celebration of the strangeness and variety of our islands, their rich history and momentous present.

Genres: Poetry

320 pages, Hardcover

Published October 1, 2020

About the author

Paul Farley is the author of four collections of poetry and has received the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Whitbread Poetry Award and the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Reviews

[Janice · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars rounded up to 4. A wonderful project, being a mixture of established and new poets. As with all anthologies some poems resonate with me more strongly than others, but safe to say there’s some real talent on display here.

[Michelle Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Can you tell I’m obsessed with the UK