New PDF release: The Zoo of the New: Poems to Read Now (Penguin Modern

'So open it anyplace, then wherever, then anyplace back. we are definite it will not be lengthy prior to you discover a poem that brings you smack into the novelty and strangeness of the residing current, simply because it did us' (from the Introduction)

In The Zoo of the New, poets Don Paterson and Nick Laird have solid a clean eye over greater than 5 centuries of verse, from the English language and past. in particular, they've got sought poetry that keeps, in a single means or one other, a robust timelessness: phrases with the exciting means to make the time and position within which they have been written, even though far-off and besides the fact that overseas they're, think totally here and now within the twenty first Century.

This booklet is the condensed results of that seek. It stretches way back to Sappho and as a long way ahead because the contemporary award-winning paintings of Denise Riley, taking in poets as various as Thomas Wyatt, William Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Frank O'Hara, Sylvia Plath and Gwendolyn Brooks alongside the best way. right here, the mournful rubs shoulders with the celebratory; the skulduggerous and the silly with the highfalutin; and stories of affection, loss and conflict with a menagerie of animals and gadgets, from bee containers to rubber boots, a swimsuit of armour and a microscope.

Teeming with previous favourites and brilliant discoveries, this lovingly chosen compendium is bound to win lifelong readers.