Contemporary Poetry

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villanelle

Originally used for pastoral poetry sometimes called chain poetry.
It is a strict traditional form which is fi xed into fi ve three-lined
stanzas or tercets with a fi nal quatrain. The fi rst and third lines
of the fi rst tercet recur in alternation as a refrain in the following
stanzas, forming a fi nal couplet.

Poetry Anthologies

Abbs, Peter, Earth Songs: A Resurgence Anthology of Contemporary
Eco-Poetry (Totnes: Green Books, 2002 ).
Allen, Donald (ed.), New American Poetry, 1945 – 1960 (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1999 ).
Alvarez, Al (ed.), The New Poetry: An Anthology (London: Faber
& Faber, 1962 ).
Astley, Neil (ed.), New Blood (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 1999 ).
Bertram, Vicki (ed.), Kicking Daffodils: Twentieth-Century Women
Poets (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997 ).
Bornholdt, Jenny, Gregory O’Brien and Mark Williams (eds), An
Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English (Melbourne: Oxford
University Press, 1997 ).
Burnett, Paula (ed.), The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English
(London: Penguin, 2005 ).
Caddel, Richard and Peter Quartermain (eds), Other: British and
Irish Poetry since 1970 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University
Press, 1999 ).
Conquest, Robert (ed.), New Lines (London: Macmillan, 1956 ).
Couzyn, Jeni (ed.), The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women
Poets: Eleven British Writers (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 2000 ).
France, Linda (ed.), Sixty Women Poets (Newcastle: Bloodaxe,
1993 ).
Gioia, Dana, David Mason and Meg Schoerke (eds), Twentieth-
Century American Poetry (Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill, 2003 ).
Heiss, Anita and Peter Minder (eds), Anthology of Australian
Aboriginal Literature (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s
University Press, 2008 ).