Stop Sharpening Your Knives 3

- by Stop Sharpening Your Knives

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Release Date: 10/02/2010
ISBN: 978-0955939921
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"A remarkable gathering of emerging poets"
-- Lavinia Greenlaw

"Energy, maturity and sharpness"
-- George Szirtes

"The poems here provide a reality check on what has long been no more than poetic self-delusion"
-- James Sutherland-Smith

"Individualistic, anarchic, dissident, argumentative, fun. I wish I'd written some of these myself"
-- Hugo Williams

New from Egg Box Publishing, the Stop Sharpening Your Knives 3 anthology is a selection of poetry and illustrations from 23 of the most talented and exciting new poets around, edited by Nathan Hamilton, Sam Riviere and Jack Underwood. Why 23? Well, why not?

It contains poems from Emily Berry, Tim Cockburn, Charlotte Geater, Mollye Miller, Jon Stone, Nathan Hamilton, Heather Phillipson, Jack Underwood, Christian Ward, Margot Douaihy, Joe Dunthorne, Stuart McCarthy, Ben Borek, Sarah Hesketh, Michael Zelenko, Kirsten Irving, Joe Kennedy, Meghan Purvis, Sam Riviere, Hayley Buckland, Matthew Gregory, Robert Herbert and Agnes Lehoczky.

Illustrations by Benjamin Brett, Beatie Fox, Steph Von Reiswitz, Gawain Godwin, Hannah Page, Franks Pudney, Tristan Stevens, Hannah Bagshaw, Oliver Beavis, Zoe Taylor and Richard Dinnis were commissioned to accompany the poetry, and we hope it adds to your enjoyment.

In part an anticipation of Bloodaxe's _Voice Recognition_, in part a discreet addition to, or corrective of, those included in that list, it is a ground upwards, rather than top downwards, selection of promising and exciting new poets. Stop Sharpening Your Knives is a hotbed of new poetry talent, with many who have been featured in its anthologies having gone on to win Eric Gregory Awards, be published in full collections, or cherry-picked by Faber for their new pamphlet series -- and there will be more. But you saw them here first.


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