20 Poets for you to read to celebrate National Poetry Month

Inspired by Bethany Price’s article on Chicago Now I thought I’d join the party by suggesting 20 UK (or UK based) poets  for you to read during April to celebrate National Poetry Month being 20 years old this year. The list below is based on my personal favourites rather than being comprehensive listing of the UK scene. It includes books I love and treasure with Welsh poets whose work is available in English. Feel free to dip in.

1. Jackie Kay; The Adoption Papers
2. Martin Figura; Whistle
3. Alice Oswald; Memorial
4. T S Eliot; Four Quartets
5. David Jones; In Parenthesis
6. Sarah Howe; Loop of Jade
7. Vanessa Gebbie; Memorandum
8. John McCullough; The Frost Fairs
9. John Greening; To The War Poets
10. Jan Fortune;  Stale Bread and Miracles
11. Carol Ann Duffy; The World’s Wife
12. Katy Evans-Bush; Egg Printing Explained
13. Pascale Petit; What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo
14. Tony Conran; The Shape of My Country
15. Menna Elfyn; Eucalyptus Detholiad o Gerddi Selected Poems 1978-1984
16. Gwyneth Lewis; Chaotic Angels Poems in English
17. Edward Thomas; Collected Poems
18. Deryn Rees-Jones; and you Helen
19. Alison Brackenbury; Singing in the Dark
20. Kei Miller; The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion