Thirty Poets Go to the Gym by George Szirtes Enitharmon Press and find ourselves incanting the

and find ourselves incanting the heath’s calendar of spells and enchantments

the voice is more important than the particularities of what is said – language

Isabel Bermudez's first full-length collection

deficiencies and contradictions - all delivered in chromatic

but it is intended especially for readers who want to learn more about contemporary American poetry but who have not known where or how to start

Thirty Poets Go to the Gym by George Szirtes Enitharmon Press and find ourselves incanting theGeorge Szirtes ingenious project of subjecting thirty canonical poets to a high intensity workout provides brilliant and often hilarious results. From Dylan Thomas falling off the treadmill after too much apple juice to Sylvia Plaths furious tirade against her trainers, the collection is a delicious roller coaster of high and low comedy. Poets from Lord Byron to John Berryman and from Emily Dickinson to Elizabeth Bishop are depicted in the throes of