# Poems of the Decade 2001-2010

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> Anthology of poems selected from the submissions for the Forward poetry prizes each year from 2001-2010.

I really enjoyed these. Last anthology I read was [101 Famous Poems](https://ollybritton.com/notes/books/101-famous-poems/) which I didn’t really enjoy because they were almost all about God which is fine but not really my kind of thing. These were much less religious.

The following I particularly enjoyed:

- _Eat Me_, Agbabi
- _Dead Cat Poem_, Alexander
- _Material_, Barber
- _Inheritance_, Boland
- _A Leisure Centre is also a Temple of Learning_, Boyle
- *One Two*, Clanchy
- *An Easy Passage*, Copus
- *The Map-Woman*, Duffy
- *Giuseppe*, Ford
- *Night Drive*, French
- *Night Drive*, Fulleylove
- *September 11th, 2001*, Herd
- *Effects*, Jenkins
- *Late Love*, Kay
- [Jury, MacRae](https://ollybritton.com/notes/poems/jury/)
- *An Encroachment*, McKendrick
- *Assassinations*, Porter
- *Instruction*, Read
- *Of Mutability*, Shapcott
- *The New Bride*, Smith
- *On Her Blindness*, Thorpe
- *Trick*, Willets

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