Poems of the Decade brings together more thanone hundred poems from the many thousands submitted to the Forward Prizes forPoetry in the first decade of the 21st century.The Forwards are among the world's most covetedpoetry honours. They have been awarded annually since 1992 for the BestCollection, Best First Collection and Best Single Poem published inBritainandIreland,and the roster of winning, shortlisted and highly commended poets regularlyjuxtaposes familiar canonical names with fresh voices.This anthology of anthologies draws on the tenForward Books of Poetry published to accompany the prizes between 2001 and2010. It is the perfect introduction to a wide range of contemporary poetry:works that speak of violence, danger and fear, of love and all that opposeslove, in forms of language broken and reshaped by the need to communicate whatit is to be alive now, here.Agbabi, Armitage, Burnside, Duffy, Dunmore,Fanthorpe, Heaney, Motion, Nagra, O'Brien and more