Among the poets new to this edition are such leading names as Americans Robert Pinsky, Louise Erdrich and Louise Glück; Britons James Fenton and Carol Ann Duffy; and Canadians Anne Carson, Robert Bringhurst, and Christian Bök. A number of names who may be new to many readers of poetry are also included among them: Ohioan Debra Allbery, Vancouverite Elise Partridge, and the Cree poet Connie Fife; as with the first edition, the editors have endeavored to include much that is fresh as well as much that is familiar. There are many additions to the selections from poets who appeared in the first edition including selections from the recent work of Leonard Cohen, Les Murray, and Margaret Atwood. As before, the anthology includes work from English-language poets throughout the world from India, Africa, and the Caribbean as well as from Britain, North America, and Australia.

Although the selections from the work of poets of earlier eras are largely unchanged from the first edition, there have been some changes; among poems added for this edition are Milton’s L’Allegro and Il Penseroso, Bradstreet’s “Employment,” Dickinson’s “I cannot live without You,” Frost’s “Once by the Pacific,” and Auden’s “Funeral Blues.”

As before, the text emphasizes work of the past century; poems from 1900 or later take up more than half of the anthology’s pages.

In its first edition The Broadview Anthology of Poetry included biographical information about the poets at the back of the anthology; for the new edition, biographical material appears in a headnote to each poet. Two other features are also new to this edition: the date of first publication is appended after each poem, and line numbering is used throughout. The numbers have been kept unobtrusive, however; as with the first edition, the designers have endeavored to give a clean look to the pages of the anthology.

A substantial section on prosody, figures of speech, and so on is included as an appendix.

A thoroughly up-to-date new edition of Broadview’s all-time best-selling title.

Preface
Preface to the First Edition

Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343–1400)

from The Canterbury Tales

English Ballads (Anonymous)

Lord Rendal
Sir Patrick Spens
Barbara Allan

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542)

The longe love, that in my thought doeth harbar
Who so list to hounte I know where is an hynde
Ffarewell, love, and all thy lawes for ever
They fle from me that sometyme did me seke

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey(c.1517–1547)

The Soote Season
Love, that Doth Reign and Live Within
My Thought

Sir Walter Ralegh (c.1552–1618)

The Nimphs Reply to the Sheepheard

Edmund Spenser (1552–1599)

from Amoretti
Sonnet XXXVII
Sonnet LXXV
Sonnet LXXIX
Sonnet LXXXI

Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

from Astrophil and Stella
Leave me ô Love, which reachest but to dust

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)

The Passionate Sheepherd to his Love

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

Sonnet 18
Sonnet 29
Sonnet 30
Sonnet 55
Sonnet 73
Sonnet 106
Sonnet 116
Sonnet 129
Sonnet 130
Sonnet 146
Fear no more the heat o’ th’ sun
O mistress mine, where are you roaming?

Thomas Campion (1567–1620)

My Sweetest Lesbia
When Thou Must Home
There is a Garden in her face

John Donne (1572–1631)

The Good-Morrow
The Sunne Rising
The Canonization
The Flea
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
from: Holy Sonnets
Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward

Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

On my first Sonne
Inviting a friend to supper
Song. To Celia
To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare: and what he hath left us

Lady Mary Wroth (1587–c.1652)

from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
When nights black mantle could most darknes prove
Faulce hope which feeds butt to destroy, and spill
Love a child is ever criing

Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

Corinna’s going a Maying
Delight in Disorder
Upon Julia’s Clothes
To the Virgins, to make much of Time

George Herbert (1593–1633)

Easter Wings
Prayer (I)
Jordan (I)
The Collar
The Pulley

John Milton (1608–1674)

Lycidas
On Shakespeare
How Soon Hath Time
L’Allegro
Il Penseroso
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

Anne Bradstreet (1613?–1672)

Prologue
The Author to Her Book
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
To my Dear and Loving Husband
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment
Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666

Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)

The Coronet
A Dialogue between the Soul and Body
To his Coy Mistress
The Definition of Love
The Garden

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1674)

The Poetresses Petition
Natures Cook
A Woman drest by Age

Katherine Philips (1631–1664)

A marryd state affords but little Ease
L’Amitie: To Mrs M. Awbrey
Friendship’s Mysterys: to my dearest Lucasia

John Dryden (1631–1700)

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
Mac Flecknoe; Or, a Satire upon the True-Blue Protestant Poet, T.S.

Aphra Behn (1640–1689)

Love in fantastick Triumph sat
The Disappointment
To Alexis in Answer to his Poem against Fruition. Ode

Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710)

To the Ladies
The Resolve

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720)

The Introduction
A Nocturnal Reverie
The Unequal Fetters

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

A Description of the Morning
A Description of a City Shower
The Lady’s Dressing-Room

Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

from The Rape of the Lock
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)

from Verses Addressed to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace
The Resolve
from Six Town Eclogues

Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Sonnet on the Death of Richard West

Christopher Smart (1722–1771)

from Jubilate Agno (fragment B)

Mary Leapor (1722–1746)

Strephon to Celia. A Modern Love-Letter
An Essay on Woman
The Epistle of Deborah Dough
Upon her Play being returned to her, stained with Claret

William Cowper (1731–1800)

The Poplar-Field
from The Task: Book II
On The Death of Mrs. Throckmorton’s Bulfinch
The Cast-Away

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825)

The Mouse’s Petition to Dr. Priestley
The Rights of Woman
Washing-Day

William Blake (1757–1827)

How sweet I roam’d from field to field
from Songs of Innocence
The Lamb
The Chimney Sweeper
Holy Thursday
The Little Black Boy
from Songs of Experience
London
The Tyger
The Chimney-Sweeper
Holy Thursday
from Milton

Robert Burns (1759–1796)

To a Louse
Holy Willie’s Prayer
The Banks O Doon
A Red, Red Rose

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour
Strange fits of passion have I known
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Three years she grew in sun and shower
A slumber did my spirit seal
I travelled among unknown men
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
London, 1802
Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room
Ode: Intimations of Immortality

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

Frost At Midnight
Dejection: An Ode
Kubla Khan

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824)

She Walks in Beauty
from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
The Prisoner of Chillon
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year
So We’ll Go No More A-Roving
Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

Mont Blanc
Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
Sonnet: England in 1819

John Keats (1795–1821)

On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
To Autumn
When I have fears that I may cease to be
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain’d

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

The Snow-Storm
Blight
Terminus

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

from Sonnets from the Portuguese
Sonnet XXII
Sonnet XLIII
A Musical Instrument
from Aurora Leigh: Book I
from Aurora Leigh: Book V

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

Snow-Flakes
In the Churchyard at Cambridge
My Lost Youth
Divina Commedia
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

The City in the Sea
To Helen
The Sleeper
Dream-Land
The Haunted Palace
The Raven

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)

Morte d’Arthur
The Lady of Shalott
Ulysses
Break, Break, Break
from In Memoriam A.H.H.
Obiit MDCCCXXXIII
Crossing the Bar

Robert Browning (1812–1889)

Porphyria’s Lover
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
My Last Duchess
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
Fra Lippo Lippi

Emily Brontë (1818–1848)

The Old Stoic
Shall Earth no more inspire thee
Remembrance
No Coward Soul
Often rebuked, yet always back returning

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)

Say not the Struggle nought Availeth
The Latest Decalogue
from Dipsychus

Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

from Song of Myself
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
A Noiseless Patient Spider
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
To a Locomotive in Winter

Herman Melville (1819–1891)

The House-top
The Maldive Shark
Art

Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

Shakespeare
The Buried Life
Isolation. To Marguerite
To Marguerite—Continued
Dover Beach

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)

The Blessed Damozel
The Card-Dealer
from The House of Life
Sonnet
Silent Noon
A Superscription
The One Hope

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

214: I taste a liquor never brewed
241: I like a look of Agony
258: There’s a certain Slant of light
303: The Soul selects her own Society
341: After great pain, a formal feeling comes
449: I died for Beauty
465: I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
585: I like to see it lap the Miles
640: I cannot live with You
712: Because I could not stop for Death
986: A narrow Fellow in the Grass
1227: My triumph lasted till the Drums

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)

Goblin Market

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)

Jabberwocky
The White Knight’s Song

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

Hap
Nature’s Questioning
Drummer Hodge
The Darkling Thrush
The Convergence of the Twain
Channel Firing
In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”
Transformations

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

God’s Grandeur
The Windhover: to Christ our Lord
Pied Beauty
Spring and Fall: to a Young Child
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
No Worst, There is None
Carrion Comfort

Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850–1887)

The Camp of Souls
The City Tree
The Dark Stag

A.E. Housman (1859–1936)

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
To an Athlete Dying Young
Is my team ploughing
On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble
Terence, this is stupid stuff
The chestnut casts his flambeaux
The night is freezing fast

Charles G.D. Roberts (1860–1943)

Tantramar Revisited
The Potato Harvest
The Solitary Woodsman
The Skater

Bliss Carman (1861–1929)

Low Tide on Grand Pré
The Eavesdropper
The World Voice
Vestigia

Archibald Lampman (1861–1899)

Heat
Morning on the Lièvre
The City of the End of Things
Winter Evening

Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947)

The Onondaga Madonna
Watkwenies
On the Way to the Mission
The Forsaken

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)

Recessional
Cities and Thrones and Powers
The Way through the Woods
The Hyaenas

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

The Sorrow of Love
When You Are Old
Easter 1916
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
A Prayer for my Daughter
The Second Coming
Leda and the Swan
Sailing to Byzantium
Among School Children
Lapis Lazuli(For Harry Clifton)
The Circus Animals’ Desertion

Robert Frost (1874–1963)

Mending Wall
After Apple-Picking
The Road not Taken
Birches
Fire and Ice
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Acquainted with the Night
Once by the Pacific
Desert Places
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
Design
The Silken Tent

Robert Service (1874–1958)

The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Only a Boche

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Anecdote of the Jar
The Idea of Order at Key West
The Motive for Metaphor

E.J. Pratt (1882–1964)

The Shark
From Stone to Steel
The Highway
The Prize Cat
from Towards the Last Spike

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

Queen-Anne’s-Lace
The Red Wheelbarrow
At the Ball Game
This is Just to Say
The Yachts
The Dance
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930)

Piano
After The Opera
Snake
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is
Bavarian Gentians
The Ship of Death

Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

Portrait d’une Femme
The Garden
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
In a Station of the Metro
Commission
Canto I

Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)

Conscripts
A Night Attack
Base Details

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961)

Leda
Oread
Helen
Fragment Thirty-six
Fragment Forty

Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

Poetry
Poetry (Revised version)
The Fish
Critics and Connoisseurs
No Swan So Fine

Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)

The Swans
Still Falls the Rain
Two Songs of Queen Anne Boleyn
The Poet Laments the Coming of Old Age

John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter
Blue Girls
Jack’s Letter

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Preludes
from The Waste Land
Journey of the Magi

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

Journey
Elegy Before Death
Dirge Without Music
Love is Not All
Menses

Hugh Macdiarmid (1892–1978)

In the Children’s Hospital
We Must Look at the Harebell
In Memoriam Dylan Thomas

Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

The Silent Slain
The End of the World
Ars Poetica
You, Andrew Marvell
“Dover Beach” — A Note to that Poem

Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

Arms and the Boy
Insensibility
Dulce et Decorum Est
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Strange Meeting

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

Bohemia
A Pig’s-Eye View of Literature
On Being a Woman
Sonnet For the End of a Sequence

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962)

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished soul
goodby Betty, don’t remember me
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
i sing of Olaf glad and big
anyone lived in a pretty how town
i thank You God for most this amazing day

Robert Graves (1895–1985)

The Cool Web
Down, Wanton, Down!
Recalling War

F.R. Scott (1899–1984)

The Canadian Authors Meet
Trans Canada
Lakeshore
Laurentian Shield
Last Rites
W. L. M. K.

Basil Bunting (1900–1985)

Personal Column
I am agog for foam
Nothing
What the Chairman Told Tom

Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

The Weary Blues
Trumpet Player
Harlem

A.J.M. Smith (1902–1980)

The Lonely Land
News of the Phoenix
Prothalamium
The Archer

Stevie Smith (1902–1971)

Mother, Among the Dustbins
The River God
Away, Melancholy
The Blue from Heaven
Not Waving but Drowning

Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

Yet Do I Marvel
From the Dark Tower
To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time

Earle Birney (1904–1991)

Anglosaxon Street
Vancouver Lights
From the Hazel Bough
Bushed
El Greco: Espolio
The Bear on the Delhi Road

John Betjeman (1906–1984)

The Cottage Hospital
Late-Flowering Lust
A Subaltern’s Love-song

W.H. Auden (1907–1973)

Funeral Blues
Lay your sleeping head, my love
Musée des Beaux Arts
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
September 1, 1939
The Unknown Citizen
Our Bias

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

My Papa’s Waltz
The Waking
Dolor
Elegy for Jane
I Knew a Woman

A.D. Hope (1907–2000)

Australia
Imperial Adam
The Return of Persephone
The Pleasure of Princes
Meditation on a Bone
Parabola

A.M. Klein (1909–1972)

Psalm VI: A Psalm of Abraham, Concerning That Which He Beheld Upon The Heavenly Scarp
Autobiographical
Montreal
The Rocking Chair
Political Meeting
For the Sisters of the Hotel Dieu

Dorothy Livesay (1909–1996)

The Difference
The Three Emily’s
Bartok and the Geranium
Lament
On Looking into Henry Moore
The Unquiet Bed

Anne Wilkinson (1910–1961)

Lens
In June and Gentle Oven
Tigers Know from Birth
On a Bench in a Park
Nature be Damned

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

The Fish
The Armadillo
Sestina
In the Waiting Room
One Art

Allen Curnow (1911–2001)

House and Land
The Unhistoric Story
Out of Sleep
The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch
You Will Know When You Get There

Irving Layton (1912–2006)

The Birth of Tragedy
The Cold Green Element
The Bull Calf
From Colony to Nation
Cain
Butterfly on Rock

Henry Reed (1914–1986)

from Lessons of the War

Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Losses
The Woman at the Washington Zoo

William Stafford (1914-1993)

Traveling through the Dark
A Message from the Wanderer
At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border

John Berryman (1914–1972)

A Professor’s Song
Desires of Men and Women
from The Dream Songs

Douglas LePan (1914-1998)

Coureurs de Bois
A Country Without A Mythology
An Incident

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

And Death Shall Have No Dominion
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
After the Funeral
Fern Hill
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
In My Craft or Sullen Art
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Judith Wright (1915–2000)

The Bull
Request to a Year
Song
At Cooloola

P.K. Page (b.1916)

The Stenographers
The Landlady
Stories of Snow
Young Girls
The Permanent Tourists
The Metal and the Flower
T-bar
After Rain

Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

As a Plane Tree by the Water
Skunk Hour
For the Union Dead
The Public Garden

Miriam Waddington (1917–2004)

Thou Didst Say Me
Sea Bells
Ten Years and More

Margaret Avison (1918–2007)

The Butterfly
Voluptuaries and Others
Butterfly Bones OR Sonnet Against Sonnets
The Swimmer’s Moment
The Dumbfounding
A Nameless One
Rising Dust

Al Purdy (1918–2000)

On the Decipherment of “Linear B”
Remains of an Indian Village
The Cariboo Horses
The Country North of Belleville
Wilderness Gothic
Lament For the Dorsets

Richard Wilbur (b.1921)

Digging For China
Love Calls Us to the Things of this World
Beasts
The Pardon
The Death of a Toad
A Late Aubade
This Pleasing Anxious Being

Raymond Souster (b.1921)

Young Girls
Memory of Bathurst Street
Queen Anne’s Lace
Words Before a Statue of Champlain

Philip Larkin (1922–1985)

Poetry of Departures
Church Going
Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album
Ambulances
An Arundel Tomb
Sad Steps
The Explosion
Aubade

Denise Levertov (1923-1997)

Laying the Dust
The Jacob’s Ladder
The Dog of Art
Matins
The Novel
Caedmon
The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why

Nissim Ezekiel (1924–2004)

Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher
In India
Night of the Scorpion
The Company I Keep
In The Garden

Carolyn Kizer (b.1925)

from Pro Femina Three
The Ungrateful Garden
The Copulating Gods
Parents’ Pantoum
Second Time Around
The Oration

James Merrill (1926–1995)

After Greece
Angel
The Broken Home

Robert Creeley (1926–2005)

The Hill
The Rain
The Door for Robert Duncan

W.D. Snodgrass (b.1926)

April Inventory
The Mother
Diplomacy: The Father
The Poet Ridiculed by Hysterical
Academics

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)

A Supermarket in California
My Sad Self

James K. Baxter (1926–1972)

The Bay
The Homecoming
Elegy for an Unknown Soldier
My Love Late Walking

Phyllis Webb (b.1927)

Patience
Marvell’s Garden
A Tall Tale
Breaking

Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

Her Kind
In the Deep Museum
Cinderella

Maya Angelou (b.1928)

Caged Bird
Our Grandmothers

Adrienne Rich (b.1929)

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Orion
Planetarium
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Final Notations
Diving into the Wreck
Take
Late Ghazal

Peter Porter (b.1929)

Annotations of Auschwitz
Soliloquy at Potsdam
Sydney Cove, 1788
An Australian Garden

Derek Walcott (b.1930)

A Far Cry from Africa
Ruins of a Great House
A Letter from Brooklyn
Map of Europe
The Sea Is History
Menelaus

Ted Hughes (1930–1998)

The Jaguar
The Thought-Fox
Hawk Roosting
Pike
Second Glance at a Jaguar
Wodwo

Edward Kamau Brathwaite (b.1930)

Wings of a Dove
Calypso

Jay Macpherson (1931–2007)

The Boatman
The Fisherman
A Lost Soul
The Well

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

The Colossus
Crossing the Water
Face Lift
Ariel
Daddy
Edge
Black Rook in Rainy Weather
Last Words

Alden Nowlan (1933–1983)

Warren Pryor
The Execution
I, Icarus
In Those Old Wars
The Word
The Bull Moose

Leonard Cohen (b.1934)

Elegy
You Have the Lovers
A Kite is a Victim
I Have Not Lingered In European Monasteries
Suzanne Takes You Down
Nightingale

Amiri Baraka (b.1934)

Ostriches & Grandmothers!
I Substitute For The Dead Lecturer
Three Modes of History and Culture
The Golgotha Local

Audre Lorde (1934–1992)

Outside
Hanging Fire
Stations
The Art of Response

Fleur Adcock (b.1934)

Wife to Husband
Unexpected Visit
Below Loughrigg
Leaving the Tate

Kofi Awoonor (b.1935)

On the Way to Durham, N.C.
The First Circle
I Rejoice

George Bowering (b.1935)

The Swing
Grandfather
The Kingdome 1974
My Father in New Zealand
Dancing Bones
Leaves Flipping

Marge Piercy (b.1936)

I will not be your sickness
Barbie Doll
The secretary chant
The cat’s song

Daryl Hine (b.1936)

Point Grey
Northwest Passages
Tabula Rasa?

Les Murray (b.1938)

The Instrument
The Disorderly
Reclaim the Sites
Post Mortem

W. H. New (b.1938)

Fissures
Pacific Rim
Figure-Eights
Safety

Seamus Heaney (b.1939)

Personal Helicon
Poor Women in a City Church
Docker
The Grauballe Man
The Railway Children
From the Frontier of Writing
Anything Can Happen
Helmet

Margaret Atwood (b.1939)

This Is a Photograph of Me
Journey to the Interior
At the Tourist Centre in Boston
from The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Further Arrivals
Death of a Young Son by Drowning
Dream 1: The Bush Garden
Thoughts from Underground
Waiting
Marsh Languages
Girl without Hands
Poetry Reading
The Door

Dennis Lee (b.1939)

from Civil Elegies

Patrick Lane (b.1939)

Pissaro’s Tomb
Winter 6
Winter 9
Winter 40
The Old Ones
Family
Teaching Poetry

Michael Longley (b.1939)

Wounds
Wreaths
The Linen Workers
Aubade
The Butchers
Ceasefire
The War Graves
The Bullet Hole
Scrap Metal

Robert Pinsky (b.1940)

From the Childhood of Jesus
The Night Game
Avenue
Vessel
Ode to Meaning
Autumn Quartet
Jersey Rain

Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941–1987)

Eden, Eden
Inside the Great Pyramid
Dark Pines Under Water
The Discovery
Letter to a Future Generation
The Child Dancing

Billy Collins (b.1941)

My Number
The Death of Allegory
Directions
Lines Composed Over Three Thousand Miles from Tintern Abbey
Sonnet
Rooms
Nine Horses
The Peasants’ Revolt

Daphne Marlatt (b.1942)

Ghost
in the dark of the coast

Sharon Olds (b.1942)

The Promise
The Elopement
Culture and Religion
What It Meant

Don McKay (b.1942)

Night Skating on the Little Paddle River
To Speak of Paths
Sometimes a Voice (1)
Finger Pointing at the Moon
The Canoe People

Louise Glück (b.1943)

Gretel in Darkness
Widows
Celestial Music
Parable of the Hostages
Telemachus’ Fantasy
Circe’s Torment
A Myth of Innocence
A Myth of Devotion

Michael Ondaatje (b.1943)

Henri Rousseau and Friends
Dates
King Kong Meets Wallace Stevens

Tom Wayman (b.1945)

Long Beach Suite
The Astonishing Weight of the Dead

Eavan Boland (b.1944)

The Emigrant Irish
The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me
On the Gift of “The Birds of America” by John James Audubon
The Making of an Irish Goddess
That the Science of Cartography Is Limited
Emigrant Letters
Quarantine

Paul Durcan (b.1944)

The Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious
Poem Not Beginning with a Line by Pindar
Notes Towards a Necessary Suicide
Torn in Two

David Kirby (b.1944)

At the Grave of Harold Goldstein
Dear Derrida

Wendy Cope (b.1945)

Engineers’ Corner
Reading Scheme
A Nursery Rhyme as it might have been written by William Wordsworth
A Nursery Rhyme as it might have been written by T.S. Eliot
Triolet
Emily Dickinson
Lonely Hearts
Being Boring
The Sitter

Alice Notley (b.1945)

What’s Suppressed
There Was Also Valium in the Drink, Placed There by Two Other People

Sharon Thesen (b.1946)

Hello Goodbye
Doubletalk
Biography of a Woman

Wanda Coleman (b.1946)

Coffee
Three Trees
Voices
Wanda Why Aren’t You Dead
Poetry Lesson Number Two
Sex and Politics in Fairyland
Busted on My Watch

Robert Bringhurst (b.1946)

Deuteronomy
The Beauty of the Weapons
These Poems, She Said
Leda and the Swan

Yusef Komunyakaa (b.1947)

Starlight Scope Myopia
Communiqué
Facing It
Nude Interrogation
Once the Dream Begins
NJ Transit

David Lehman (b.1948)

The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke
First Offense

Lorna Crozier (b.1948)

Inventing the Hawk
The Memorial Wall
Sturgeon
The Swan Girl
Le Feu-Cracher in Montpellier

James Fenton (b.1949)

A German Requiem
Lines for Translation into Any Language
In Paris with You

John Agard (b.1949)

Listen Mr Oxford Don
How Aunty Nansi Reshuffled Prospero’s Books
The Embodiment

Charles Bernstein (b.1950)

The Kiwi Bird in the Kiwi Tree
Verdi and Postmodernism
Being a Statement on Poetics for the New Poetics Colloquium of the Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, British Columbia, August 1985
Of Time and the Line

Anne Carson (b.1950)

Audubon
Father’s Old Blue Cardigan
Interview with Hara Tamiki (1950)
Tango IX. But What Word Was It

Susan Musgrave (b.1951)

At Nootka Sound
Exchange of Fire
Things That Keep and Do Not Change

Paul Muldoon (b.1951)

Good Friday, 1971. Driving Westward
The Upriver Incident
Meeting the British
Errata
The Misfits

Rita Dove (b.1952)

Parsley
Lady Freedom Among Us
The Bistro Styx
I Cut My Finger Once on Purpose

Dionne Brand (b.1953)

Canto I
Canto II
from Land to Light On
V i
V ii
V iii
V iv
V v
V vi

Patricia Young (b.1954)

Three Point Five Nine
The Third Sex
Photograph, 1958
Choosing a Picture to Live With
The Picnic

Louise Erdrich (b.1954)

Dear John Wayne
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways

Vijay Seshadri (b.1954)

Divination in the Park
Party Girl
Lifeline

Jan Zwicky (b.1955)

Border Station
Bone Song
Nostalgia

Carol Ann Duffy (b.1955)

Litany
Confession
Valentine
Poet for Our Times
Little Red-Cap
Answer
The Love Poem

Amy Gerstler (b.1956)

The Unforeseen
Sculpture/The Impatience of Youth
Around the Block in Eighty Days
Suffering in the Old Testament
Lost in the Forest
Scorched Cinderella

Jacqueline Osherow (b.1956)

Phantom Haiku/Silent Film
Sonnet
Ghazal: Comet
Villanelle from a Sentence in a Poet’s Brief Biography

Debra Allbery (b.1957)

Sherwood Anderson Walks Out
Offering
A Little Blessing

Elise Partridge (b.1959)

Everglades
In the Barn
Caught
A Valediction
Ways of Going

George Elliott Clarke (b.1960)

Primitivism
Coming into Intelligence
En Lutte!
Halifax Blues
Ballad of a Hanged Man

Connie Fife (b.1961)

and dance they will
This is not a metaphor
i have become so many mountains
dear walt
she who remembers

Karen Solie (b.1966)

Signs Taken for Wonders
Sturgeon
Days Inn
Dear Heart
Flashpoint
The Bends
Lines Compose a Few Miles Above Duncairn Dam

Christian Bök (b.1966)

from Eunoia
Chapter E

Sherman Alexie (b.1966)

Economics of the Tribe
Poem
After the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994
Soon to be a National Geographic Special

Stephanie Bolster (b.1969)

Many have Written Poems about Blackberries
Aperture, 1856
Still Life
Natal
Virginia Woolf’s Mother in the Blurred Garden
Fargo in Flood

Reading Poetry
Glossary: Poetic and Literary Terms
Sources
Index of Authors and Titles
Index of First Lines

“The long-awaited second edition of The Broadview Anthology of Poetry preserves the best of the first edition and incorporates important and valuable new additions.” — Patricia Whiting, Carleton University

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“The Broadview Anthology of Poetry is a good anthology that just got better. The revised format makes it easier to use; the greater breadth of coverage allows for a detailed and vital examination of poetic traditions and innovations over time, as well as across diverse national and cultural contexts. With their lucid explanation of metre and form, the editors also provide support to both instructor and student in the study of prosody.” — Susan Birkwood, Carleton University