An indispensible guide to the UK poetry scene, edited by poet Sasha Dugdale. This is a must-have for anyone interested in the art from newcomers to the art to the most experienced professional and all creative writing students in the UK.
Best British Poetry 2012 presents the finest and most engaging poems found in British-based literary magazines and webzines over the past year. This year poet Sasha Dugdale guest edits the selection, offering a chance for readers to find some of the best work being written in the UK at the moment.
Sasha Dugdale was born in Sussex. She works as a translator and consultant for the Royal Court and other theatre companies. Her translation, Plasticine by Vassily Sigarev, won the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. She has published two collections of translations of Russian poetry and three collections of her own poetry, Notebook (2003), The Estate (2007) and Red House (2011). In 2003 she received an Eric Gregory Award.
Roddy Lumsden (born 1966) is a Scottish poet, who was born in St Andrews. He has published five collections of poetry, a number of chapbooks and a collection of trivia, as well as editing a generational anthology of British and Irish poets of the 1990s and 2000s, Identity Parade. He lives in London where he teaches for The Poetry School.
