100 Poets: A Little Anthology ed. By John Carey Ly Seppel Goss navigates the real and

Goss navigates the real and the imagined with equal flair

not only in his phrasing

Reward for Winter tells that story on three levels: the earthy triumphs and tribulations of a novice smallholder

Discoveries include Jasconius the island-whale

alongside visions of the underworld as imagined by Homer

100 Poets: A Little Anthology ed. By John Carey Ly Seppel Goss navigates the real andA wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of PoetryA poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devastation of conquests. Celebrated author John Carey here presents a uniquely valuable anthology of verse based on a simple principle: select the one hundred greatest poets from across the centuries, and then choose their finest poems.