Selected by Nick Laird and Don Paterson, two of our most lauded and beloved living poets, and conceived of as a collection of their favourite poems, The Zoo of the New is set to establish itself as the classic anthology of our time. Laird and Paterson have brought together an inspired and diverse selection, ranging from undisputed masterpieces to rare discoveries, as well as drawing upon works in translation and traditional poems from oral cultures.
Nick Laird was born in 1975 in Co. Tyrone, and studied
English at the University of Cambridge, where he won the
Quiller-Couch Award for creative writing. His poetry collections
are To a Fault (2005), On Purpose (2007) and Go Giants (2013). He
has been awarded the Aldeburgh Poetry Prize, the Somerset Maugham
Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He is the author of
two novels and lives in London.
Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. His poetry
collections include Nil Nil, God's Gift to Women, Landing Light,
Rain and 40 Sonnets. He has also published translations of Antonio
Machado and Rainer Maria Rilke. His poetry has won many awards,
including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial
Prize and all three Forward Prizes; he is currently the only poet
to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize twice. He was awarded the Queen's
Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009.
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