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Originally Posted by Duncan Gillies MacLaurin
No editor of an anthology that was primarily formal verse would ever dream of calling his/her book "The Best British Poetry 2011".
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Why not, if that's what the editor liked most? Like Rory, I'd have thought it's obvious that an editor's choices are that editor's (well informed, cultivated, etc.) choices. No more no less.
Myself, I'm never really interested in the
Best of American Poetry anthologies (the only ones I've seen). The selection is really never any better than reading various poems out of some of the good magazines at any given time. I don't honestly see the point of it, other than, as Roddy says, promoting poetry in general--which is definitely a good thing to do. Since I already like poetry, no one needs to promote it to me though.