E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK

To celebrate Eyewear 's five years, I have been creating little lists with "fives" and multiples of five in them.  Here is the final list of the "top five" poets of the English-speaking world, 2005-2010; not necessarily the best, mind you, but those who have made the most impact, for literary and extra-literary reasons.  This list is not canonical, is problematic, no doubt biased, leaning to the UK/Ireland, but trying to be inclusive, and take into account Canada, America, the Caribbean, and Australia and New Zealand. 1. Geoffrey Hill - the UK's new Oxford Professor of Poetry is the greatest living master of English poetry not to have a Nobel prize.  This is a worthy appointment. 2. Fiona Sampson - the editor of the UK's most important poetry journal of note, Poetry Review , is also a prolific poet, reviewer, critic, and has published several key books about reading and writing.  She is the closest thing Britain now has to an modern Eliotic mind - ...