Emily Berry's debut poetry collection, Dear Boy, was published in 2013, winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Hawt hornden Prize. She is the editor of Best British Poetry 2015 and was a contributor to The Breakfast Bible, a compendium of breakfasts. Her second collection, Stranger, Baby, is forthcoming from Faber in 2017. She lives in London, where she was born.

Anne Carson (Author)

Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living.

Sophie Collins (Author)

Sophie Collins grew up in Bergen, North Holland, and now lives in Edinburgh. She is co-editor of tender, an online journal promoting work by female-identified writers and artists. Her poems have appeared in magazines, anthologies, newspapers and art books. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2014. Her first collection will be published by Penguin in 2017.

This collection hits the ground running, both in terms of the work chosen and the way the first poem starts ... There is deep, anxious wit in Emily Berry's work ... It illustrates what poetry does best: make us look at the world anew, and not necessarily with ease ... If you don't know Anne Carson's work, you're in for a treat ... her poems are crammed with classical allusions that work even if you don't know what she's referring to ... Carson has an intellect that is both high-powered and unstoppably playful: her jokes are more than just gags, but - and this is the great bit - they're still funny ... Sophie Collins, at the beginning of her career, has enormous promise ... Her poem 'An Unusual Day' is not only extremely funny, it also gives us some clues as to the sternness of her gaze ... No one else could put the words down on the page in quite this way (Nick Lezard The Guardian)

A tremendous collection. Possibly the only book of poetry I've ever read through from start to finish (John Self)