This glorious anthology showcases the best of contemporary British and Irish poetry over the last year and is the perfect introduction both to poets at the top of their form and a new generation of startling 65 writers in all. The book includes poems from collections shortlisted for Britain's most coveted poetry awards - the Forward Prizes - plus 50 poems highly commended by the judges. It features poems by Alice Oswald, Sharon Olds, Sarah Howe, Helen Mort, Luke Kennard and Michael Rosen plus this year's three Forward Prizes Vahni Capildeo, Tiphanie Yanique and Sasha Dugdale. The anthology - the 25th of its kind - is introduced by Malika Booker, who chaired the 2017 Forward Prizes jury. Her fellow jurors, Liz Berry, Don Share, George Szirtes and Tracey Thorn, read a total of 161 recently published collections before settling on the poems they felt best represented the excitement of good new poetry. If you buy only one anthology this year, this is the place to start.