The Penguin book of the prose poem - Jeremy Noel-Tod

'A wonderful book - an invigorating revelation ... An essential
collection 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

This
is the prose poem: a 'genre with an oxymoron for a name', one of
literature's great open secrets, and the home for over 150 years of
extraordinary work by many of the world's most beloved writers. This
uniquely wide-ranging anthology gathers essential pieces of writing from
every stage of the form's evolution, beginning with the great flowering
of recent years before moving in reverse order through the
international experiments of the 20th century and concluding with the
prose poem's beginnings in 19th-century France.

Edited with an introduction by Jeremy Noel-Tod