Young Poets

The poets featured in Young Poets are Elizabeth Campbell, Bonny Cassidy, Sarah Holland-Batt, L K Holt, Graeme Miles, Simon West, and Petra White. This book is a celebration, offering large samples of poems from each poet. Now in their late twenties to mid-thirties, these poets boast a substantial body of wide-ranging, stimulating, and moving work.

Generational groupings of poets often self-select around defined reading interests. In this case, the inclination is to devour as much of poetry’s past and present traditions as possible, acquiring the wide craft and spirit of the art. The upshot is a particular, persistent élan: intelligence that is free to be daring, with a practised suppleness of free-verse lines.

These poets share the modernists' eclecticism, carried into the postmodern era, having grown up with the effects of instant, global communication. The diversity of contemporary experience finds a ready and confident home in their art. These are poems of true distinction.