PENGUIN The Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson

I liked whatever I read. Only thing, it could have been ordered better.

A wonderful collection of prose poetry covering a wide range from the more serious to the humorous. It's a good way to get an overview of prose poetry and delve deeper from here.

It came all the way from England. How exciting. What an entrancing book of prose. It is superb hardback. High quality.

Book arrived just a few days after I ordered it and it is a new copy. A lovely addition to my library. Thank you to the vendor for excellent service.

If the measure of a book lies in its ability to surprise, engage and broaden your horizons - I really can't think of a better example from 2018. The idea of prose poem most immediately conjures up associations with the French Symbolist avant garde of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud - and there are certainly selections from all here - but the what Noel-Tod has put together here is broad and beautiful, stretching from comic vignettes, to descriptive sketches, memoirs, dramatic monologues & gnomic riddles. You can dip in at random and on virtually every page there's something you want to return to. Easily my book of the year.