Category Archives: Anthologies

Anthologies

Poems by Duncan Forbes have appeared in the following anthologies:

New Poetry 4 and 5
The Penguin Book of Light Verse edited by Gavin Ewart (1980)
The Faber Book of Blue Verse (1990)
The Faber Book of Movie Verse (1993)
Forward Book of Poetry (1993)
Poem for the Day (1994)
Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry   ed. Peter Forbes (1999)
Being Alive ed. Neil Astley (Bloodaxe 2004)
The Times/Stephen Spender translation prize anthologies 2006 and 2010  available to read at www.stephenspender.org
Penguin Poems for Love ed. Laura Barber (2009)
First Sixty: The Acumen Anthology ed. Patricia Oxley (2010)
Funny Ha-Ha Funny Peculiar (Bloodaxe 2015)
100 Prized Poems (Faber & Faber 2016)
The Poetry Pharmacy ed. William Sieghart (2017)
The Vanishing ed. Shae Spreafico (Elsinore Books 2017)
The Heart’s Granary  Compiled by Lawrence Sail (Enitharmon 2017)

The Vanishing

The Vanishing

Edited by Shae Spreafico (Elsinore Books 2017) Continue Reading

The Poetry Pharmacy

The Poetry Pharmacy

Edited by William Sieghart (2017) Continue Reading

100 Prized Poems

100 Prized Poems

Faber & Faber 2016 Continue Reading

Funny Ha-Ha Funny Peculiar

Funny Ha-Ha Funny Peculiar

Bloodaxe 2015 Continue Reading

Faber Poetry Introduction 5

Faber Poetry Introduction 5

1982 ‘Duncan Forbes is a real discovery.’ – Vernon Scannell Continue Reading


 

LATEST BOOK

LATEST BOOK

Under the Sun takes up where Human Time (2020) left off. This new collecton contains poems on a variety of subjects and in various moods and modes. Once again, humour is mixed with sadness and free verse with formal poetry. There are delicate poems about nature and yet human concerns remain very much to the fore.

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