Identity Parade: New British & Irish Poets

by Roddy Lumsden (Editor)

'Identity Parade' presents new British and Irish poetry at a time of great vibrancy and variety. It is the first anthology to comprehensively represent the generation of poets who have emerged since the mid-1990s.

Genres: Poetry

384 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2010

About the author

Roddy Lumsden was a Scottish poet. He published seven collections of poetry, a number of chapbooks and a collection of trivia, as well as editing a generational anthology of British and Irish poets of the 1990s and 2000s, Identity Parade, among other anthologies.

Reviews

[Cooch · Rating 5 out of 5]

An Excellent Anthology

This is the best introduction to contemporary poetry I know. Most of the writer's here are still writing. If such a thing as a ' must Mac's exists in poetry, this is it.

[Colin Kitchen · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book to get a feel for modern poetry . The editor gives you background to each poet and briefly explains the type of poetry each poet is trying to do.

I particularly liked Julia Copus, Leontia Flynn, Paul Farley, Neil Rollinson and Jean Sprackland

[Mandy Haggith · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great anthology of current poets, lots of whom were new to me, and I now have a list of poets I'd like to follow up from it. I'd recommended it to anyone seeking an overview of new British and Irish poetry - though it is limited to the literary mainstream published by the big publishing houses, which is just one island in the huge archipelago of current poetry and excludes much exciting, avant garde and experimental work. The format is 4 or 5 poems by each writer, enough to give a flavour of their interests and style and little enough to enable the anthology to cover many voices.