Poetry Anthologies
Poems in the Waitng Room 2008-2010, edited by Michael Lee and Isobel Montgomery Campbell. Poems in the Waitng Room, 2010. The Collected Edition of Poems in the Waitng Room presents the quarterly issues published between 1998 to winter 2010, fifty short collections of poems selected for their power to help the patient. The Introduction sets out a brief history of the arts in health charity that started as a simple scheme in and around Kew Gardens Richmond but which spread, often by word of mouth, to become the most widely read national poetry publication and the most extensive arts in health programme in the NHS. Poem: Osterglocken
This Island City: Portsmouth in Poetry, edited Dale Gunthorp with Maggie Sawkins, Denise Bennett, Consultant Editor: George Marsh. Spinnaker Press, 2010. This anthology has almost 200 poems, all with something significant to say about Portsmouth and includes U.A. Fanthorpe, John Hegley and John Haynes. Poem: Lubber
Reflections on Lake Orta, edited by Gabriel Griffin. Wyvern Works, 2010. Celebrating ten years of Poetry on the Lake. Poem: The Chestnuts on the Sacro Monte
poetry tREnD, edited by Aprilia Zank. Lit verlag, 2010. Poetry in translation. Poem: Gutter translated in to German
Orta Christmas, edited by Gabriel Griffin. Wyvern Works, 2009. Orta Christmas is a book of poems by various authors on the theme of winter, illustrated with colour photos of Lake Orta in winter. Poem: Three Gifts
Well Versed - poems from the Morning Star edited by John Rety, 2008. Well Versed: Poems from the Morning Star brings together all the poems published in the first two years of Rety's column from January 2006 to April 2008. It is a wonderfully strong and compelling anthology, eclectic and eccentric, passionate and provocative, ranging from Victor Hugo's Penniless Children and Heinrich Heine's Angels to Johannes Kerkhoven's "visual poems" and Dave Puller's performance-piece Bombs R Us. Poem: An' Each Dot A Bomb
Wild, edited by Gabriel Griffin. Wyvern Works, 2007. Wild has 48 poems with 25 translations in Italian with illustrations by Sergio Cocito, Oz Hardwick, Christopher Truman, Anthony Weir. Poem: Maxwell's Otter - Commended
Images of Women, edited by Myra Schneider and Dilys Wood. Preface: UA Fanthorpe. Arrowhead Press in association with Second Light, 2006. £12.95 (250 pages). An anthology of work by contemporary women poets both well-known and up-and-coming. Poems: May
This Little Stretch of Life, edited by Karen Green and Mimi Khalvati. Hearing Eye/The Poetry School, 2006, ISBN 1-905082-19-3. Poems: Osterglocken, Loris and The Butcher's Block
Hortus Conclusus: Poetry on the Lake edited by Gabriel Griffin. Wyvern Works, 2005. Poems: Inheritance and Circle
Plant Care: Festshrift for Mimi Khalvati, edited by E A Markham. Linda Lee Books, 2004, ISBN 1-872659-03-9. Poem: Mimi's Table
Entering the Tapestry: a second anthology from The Poetry School, edited by Mimi Khalvati & Graham Fawcett. Enitharmon, 2003, ISBN 1-900564-48-3. Poems: The Passage and Me, Holding your Hand
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