I applaud what Duncan said.
The worst thing about this book, IMO (but that's without having read it) is its title.
It should have been called, perhaps, "The Best British Poetry 2011 according to Roddy Lumsden".
If I counted correctly, there are 71 contributors; I've come across about half a dozen of the names. Lumsden says "There is an interesting mix of well-known, less-known ones and emerging poets", and almost a quarter of them are under 30, which he thinks is great because it represents "a coming generation which I believe to be the strongest ever in UK poetry."
Here's a link to the first poem in the anthology, called
in her kitchen