Download or read book The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry written by Blake Morrison and published by Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is unquestionably a new spirit in poetry today, argue the editors of this superb anthology. Charting the development of British poetry over the past few decades - expressed in a renewed interest in narrative, a preference for metaphor and post-modernist wit, and a reassertion of the primacy of imagination - this collection opens with Seamus Heaney and includes several more poets from Ireland, alongside Douglas Dunn, Craig Raine, James Fenton, Anne Stevenson and others. Together they represent a dynamic generation of poets.