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A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook. A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot 's Four Quartets ) to several hundred poems (as is often seen in collections of haiku ).
This is a list of English-language poets, who have written much of their poetry in English. [1] Main country of residence as a poet (not place of birth): A = Australia, Ag = Antigua, B = Barbados, Bo = Bosnia, C = Canada, Ch = Chile, Cu = Cuba, D = Dominica, De = Denmark, E = England, F = France, G = Germany, Ga = Gambia, Gd = Grenada, Gh = Ghana/Gold Coast, Gr = Greece, Gu = Guyana/British ...
The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, 1999; Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain, 1989; Hyakunin Isshū (13th century) (one hundred people, one poem), compiled by the 13th-century Japanese poet and critic Fujiwara no Teika, an important collection of Japanese waka poems from the 7th through the 13th ...
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Wendell Berry (born 1934), US man of letters, critic and farmer; John Berryman (1914–1972), US poet and scholar; Dániel Berzsenyi (1776–1836), Hungarian poet; Mary Ursula Bethell (1874–1945), New Zealand poet and social worker; John Betjeman (1906–1984), English poet, writer and broadcaster
The book sold well in the United Kingdom, making The Times list of the year's top 10 books and becoming the top-selling book of poetry in Britain. [ 3 ] The title eunoia , which literally means good thinking , is a medical term for the state of normal mental health , and is also the shortest word in the English language which contains all five ...
The imprint was established in March 1999 when the founder and editor of Carcanet Press, Michael Schmidt, acquired the Oxford University Press poetry list. OUP's authors had included such critically acclaimed poets as Fleur Adcock , Joseph Brodsky , Greg Delanty , Alice Oswald , Craig Raine , and Jo Shapcott .