News at Eleven (Back Page): Look at the broad range of forms

in which our competitors labour, from the freeform and jazz reference of Susan Utting's Then to the Shakespearian sonnet of Anne Ryland's On the Quiet Side. In this respect these ten are a representative sample of what is going on in British poetry today, and has been for some time. Perhaps we should call this Porterism, after the composer of Anything Goes.

I picked this bunch because I felt that they were doing what love poetry should, which is to come up with a distinctive angle of vision on the most important and written-about of human emotions, and the one most heartlessly stalked by clichés.

from The Times: Old, new, lost, found: all you need is a love poem

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