Burning Eye are to Spoken Word Poetry what City Lights were to the Beat Generation: indispensable champions and publishers dedicated to a distinctive literary movement. Editors Jenn Hart and Clive Birnie present the highlights from the first five years and one hundred Burning Eye books. Here are the hits and anthems; the foot-stomping, finger-clicking, belly-laugh inducing crowd-pleasers gathered togther under one cover. FEATURING: Dan Cockrill * Raymond Antrobus * Jack Dean Anna Freeman * Megan Beech * Emily Harrison Sally Jenkinson * Kirsten Luckins * Keith Jarrett Paula Varjack * Hannah M. Teasdale * Jeremy Toombs Liv Torc * Joelle Taylor * Agnes TÖrÖk Sophia Walker * Thommie Gillow * Rosy Carrick Tina Selderholm * Crysse Morrison * Lucy Lepchani Salena Godden * Jenn Hart * Sam Boarer A. F. Harrold * Harry Baker * Robert Garnham Matt Panesh * Ash Dickinson * Johnny Fluffypunk Rob Auton * Joe Hakim * Selina Nwulu * Hollie McNish Toby Campion * Andrew Graves * Amani Saeed James Bunting * Lucy English * Emma Joliffe Laurie Bolger * Penny Pepper * Kate Fox Jemima Foxtrot * Molly Case * Elvis McGonagall Jess Green * Mark Grist * Nasser Hussain Molly Naylor * Dan Simpson * Sophia Blackwell Amy McAllister * Stef Mo * Sara Hirsch Fergus McGonigal * Keshia Starrett * Tony Walsh Shruti Chauhan * Hannah Chutzpah * Jamal Mehmood Shagufta K Iqbal * Vanessa Kisuule * Michelle Madsen Deanna Rodger * Mairi Campbell-Jack * Lydia Towsey Malaika Kegode * Rebecca Tantony * Chris Redmond Pete Bearder * Henry Raby * Scott Tyrrell

Since 2013, She Grrrowls has been bringing live shows of talented women in comedy, music, poetry (and everything in between) to stages across London. In this anthology, Carmina Masoliver -founder, poet and feminist - has selected and commissioned new work from ten poets who have featured at the event over the years. Featuring: Bridget Minamore, Joelle Taylor, Sabrina Mahfouz, Selina Nwulu, Rachel Long, Natalie Cooper, Aisling Fahey, Sophie Fenella, Jasmine Cooray, Esther Poyer, Belinda Zhawi and Rowena Knight.

A comprehensive edition of one of America's greatest poets, this collection draws from her four published volumes, together with 50 uncollected works and translations of Octavio Paz, Max Jacob and others.

The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry—“one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets)—now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry. The Washington Post said of the 2017 edition, “The poems...have a wonderful cohesion and flow, as if each contributes to a larger narrative about life today…While readers may question some of the selections—an annual sport with this series—most will find much that resonates, including the insightful author notes at the back of the anthology.” The state of the world has inspired many to write poetry, and to read it—to share all the rage, beauty, and every other thing under the sun in the way that only poetry can. Now the foremost anthology of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Major Jackson, the poet and editor who, “makes poems that rumble and rock” (poet Dorianne Laux). This brilliant 2019 edition includes some of the year’s most defining, striking, and innovative poems and poets.