I am indebted also to my editors at Penguin, without whom this book would not exist in its current form, and to Keiron Pim and Ralf Webb, who lent invaluable support in the final stages. All errors are, of course, my own.
Finally, my love as always, for everything, to my wife, Beccy, and to my children – Edie, Violet, and Norah – who made good use of the scrap paper that editing an anthology inevitably generates. I hope that one day they will find something here to enjoy.
Jeremy Noel-Tod
Index of Poets
The page references in this index correspond to the printed edition from which this ebook was created. To find a specific word or phrase from the index, please use the search feature of your ebook reader.
Ackerson-Kiely, Paige 55
Alexander, Meena 178
Ali, Agha Shahid 128
Armitage, Simon 67
Arp, Hans 288
Ashbery, John 59, 244
Atkins, Tim 76
Atwood, Margaret 154
Auden, W. H. 322
Baudelaire, Charles 397, 399, 400
Bird, Hera Lindsay 9
Berry, Emily 43
Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei 38
Bertrand, Aloysius 404, 406, 408
Bishop, Elizabeth 256
Bly, Robert 226
Bök, Christian 97
Bonnefoy, Yves 185
Bonney, Sean 20
Borges, Jorge Luis 264
Bornholdt, Jenny 163
Boyle, Charles 102
Boyer, Anne 15
Brecht, Bertolt 289
Breton, André 328
Brown, Pam 139
burns, joanne 182
Capildeo, Vahni 7
Carson, Anne 5, 152
Catling, Brian 168
Cernuda, Luis 295
Césaire, Aimé 292
Char, René 291
Chernoff, Maxine 212
Christensen, Inger 248
Claudel, Paul 375
Coolidge, Clark 156
Dinh, Linh 100
Didsbury, Peter 206
Dismoor, Jessie 352
Dove, Rita 174
Dowson, Ernest 376
Duggan, Laurie 192
Edson, Russel 228
Eliot, T. S. 345
Eluard, Paul 328
Erb, Elke 222
Etter, Carrie 29
Finlay, Ian Hamilton 117
Fisher, Roy 262
Forché, Carolyn 207
Fuller, John 26
Fuye, Anzai 331
Gachagua, Clifton 27
Gascoyne, David 317
Ginsberg, Allen 273
Gizzi, Peter 11
Griffiths, Bill 82
Guest, Barbara 115
Hadfield, Jen 79
Haji, Golan 3
Harjo, Joy 165
Harwood, Lee 193
Hass, Robert 176
Heaney, Seamus 89, 227
Hejinian, Lyn 186
Herbert, Zbigniew 268
Hill, Geoffrey 236
Hilson, Jeff 80
Holub, Miroslav 209
Hong, Cathy Park 53
Howe, Sarah 19
Hyesoon, Kim 124
Jacob, Max 337
Jansma, Esther 131
Jarnot, Lisa 107
Jennings, Elizabeth 260
Jiménez, Juan Ramón 351
Johnson, Fenton 342
Joseph, Anthony 69
Kapil, Bhanu 17
Kasischke, Laura 65
Kennard, Luke 86
Kharms, Daniil 311
Khlebnikov, Velimir 368
Kinloch, David 148
Kirsten, Wulf 203
Koike, Masayo 111
Komunyakaa, Yusef 180
Laâbi, Abdellatif 147
Lazarus, Emma 382
Lehmann, John 302
Lehóczky, Ágnes 74
Lerner, Ben 91
Lockwood, Patricia 32
Lowell, Amy 346
Loynaz, Dulce María 279
Madge, Charles 312
Mallarmé, Stéphane 3
Mansfield, Katherine 344
Manson, Peter 25
Marriott, D. S. 60
Mayer, Bernadette 213
McCabe, Chris 49
McMillan, Ian 138
Mengham, Rod 12
Michaux, Henri 326
Middleton, Christopher 198
Miller, Kei 31
Miłosz, Czesław 126
Minnis, Chelsey 103
Mistral, Gabriela 319
Momaday, N. Scott 219
Montale, Eugenio 270
Monson, Jane 66
Moss, Thylias 161
Mullen, Harryette 99
Muzanenhamo, Togara 90
Myles, Eileen 133
Nagy, Ágnes Nemes 189
Naryanan, Vivek 57
Nasser, Amjad 92
Neruda, Pablo 258
Noll, Bink 196
Nye, Naomi Shihab 140
O’Hara, Frank 276
Ómarsdóttir, Kristín 120
Orbán, Ottó 223
Padgett, Ron 135
Pagis, Dan 188
Pang, Alvin 51
Paz, Octavio 284
Paterson, Don 122
Penga, Elena 62
Perse, Saint-John 336
Ponge, Francis 298, 300, 301
Qin, Shang 184
Queryas, Sina 88
Quintane, Nathalie 118
Rankine, Claudia 22
Rao, Mani 95
Raworth, Tom 216
Reading, Peter 195
Reddy, Srikanth 94
Reverdy, Pierre 275, 355
Rich, Adrienne 240
Rimbaud, Arthur 386, 388, 390
Riordan, Maurice 84
Robertson, Lisa 104
Robinson, Sophie 78
Rumens, Carol 172
Schuyler, James 246
Seferis, George 306
Shire, Warsan 63
Simic, Charles 175
Smith, Ken 230
Smith, Rod 101
Sosnowski, Andrzej 142
Soyinka, Wole 233
Spicer, Jack 266
Stein, Gertrude 356
Strand, Mark 47, 170
Suchère, Éric 40
Sutherland, Keston 44
Szymborska, Wisława 259
Tagore, Rabindranath 338
Tanikawa, Shuntarō 224
Tate, James 211
Tonks, Rosemary 254
Trakl, Georg 365
Tranströmer, Tomas 242
Turgenev, Ivan 392, 395
Turnbull, Gael 251
Upward, Allen 367
Vajpeyi, Udayan 136
Vallejo, César 309
Wagner, Cathy 48
Waldrop, Rosmarie 144
Welton, Matthew 70
Wenderoth, Joe 108
Wilde, Oscar 380, 381
Williams, William Carlos 339
Wright, C. D. 158
Wright, James 205
Xun, Lu 334
Yaping, Zhou 150
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