Rory
There is a bias towards free verse in our day, and that is something that some of us feel should be noted at fairly regular intervals.
Jayne and I are not specifically targeting Roddy. But one has to wade in somewhere, and with that title, well...
No editor of an anthology that was primarily formal verse would ever dream of calling his/her book "The Best British Poetry 2011".
You say "since Lumsden's name is all over the book it's quite clear the selection is his". This is a weak argument. If he'd called it "Some of the Best British Poetry 2011", then it wouldn't come across as being arrogant and exclusive.
Duncan
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