This comprehensive guide to modern English poetry should appeal to students and all lovers of poetry. A particular distinction is the inclusion, as contributors, of a number of celebrated poets, offering intriguing author/subject combinations, for example Tom Paulin on Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney on Robert Lowell, and Anne Stevenson on Sylvia Plath. Edited by the distinguished poet and critic, Ian Hamilton, there are entries on some 1500 poets, from W.H. Auden to Benjamin Zephaniah.