Penguin Book of the Prose Poem

'A wonderful book - an invigorating revelation ... An essentialcollection of prose poems from across the globe, by old masters and new,reveals the form's astonishing range' Kate Kellaway, Observer

'A superb anthology . . . it is hard to know how it could possibly be bettered' Daily Telegraph

Thisis the prose poem: a 'genre with an oxymoron for a name', one ofliterature's great open secrets, and the home for over 150 years ofextraordinary work by many of the world's most beloved writers. Thisuniquely wide-ranging anthology gathers essential pieces of writing fromevery stage of the form's evolution, beginning with the great floweringof recent years before moving in reverse order through theinternational experiments of the 20th century and concluding with theprose poem's beginnings in 19th-century France.

Edited with an introduction by Jeremy Noel-Tod