The Penguin Book of the Prose

A wonderful book - an invigorating revelation ... An essential collection of prose poems from across the globe by old masters and new reveals the form's astonishing range' Kate Kellaway Observer'A superb anthology . . . it is hard to know how it could possibly be bettered' Daily TelegraphThis is the prose poem a 'genre with an oxymoron for a name' one of literature's great open secrets and the home for over 150 years of extraordinary work by many of the world's most beloved writers. This uniquely wide-ranging anthology gathers essential pieces of writing from every stage of the form's evolution beginning with the great flowering of recent years before moving in reverse order through the international experiments of the 20th century and concluding with the prose poem's beginnings in 19th-century France.Edited with an introduction by Jeremy Noel-Tod About the Author Jeremy Noel-Tod is a lecturer in the School of Literature Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. His literary criticism has been widely published in theDaily Telegraph theLiterary Review theTimes Literary SupplementProspect theNew Statesman theGuardian and theLondon Review of Books and he has been the poetry critic for theSunday Times since 2013. His books as an editor include the revised edition of theOxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2013) and theComplete Poems of R. F. Langley (Carcanet 2015).|Jeremy Noel-Tod is a lecturer in the School of Literature Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. His literary criticism has been widely published in the Daily Telegraph the Literary Review the Times Literary Supplement Prospect the New Statesman the Guardian and the London Review of Books and he has been the poetry critic for the Sunday Times since 2013. His books as an editor include the revised edition of the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2013) and the Complete Poems of R. F. Langley (Carcanet 2015).|'A wonderful book - an invigorating revelation ... An essential collection of prose poems from across the globe by old masters and new reveals the form's astonishing range' Kate Kellaway Observer'A superb anthology . . . it is hard to know how it could possibly be bettered' Daily TelegraphThis is the prose poem: a 'genre with an oxymoron for a name' one of literature's great open secrets and the home for over 150 years of extraordinary work by many of the world's most beloved writers. This uniquely wide-ranging anthology gathers essential pieces of writing from every stage of the form's evolution beginning with the great flowering of recent years before moving in reverse order through the international experiments of the 20th century and concluding with the prose poem's beginnings in 19th-century France.Edited with an introduction by Jeremy Noel-Tod