Review:
The Edge of Necessary:
An Anthology of Welsh Innovative Poetry 1966 – 2018
edited by John Goodby and Lyndon Davies
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Jonathan Edwards reviews
The Edge of Necessary: An Anthology of Welsh Innovative Poetry 1966 – 2018
edited by John Goodby and Lyndon Davies

The Edge of Necessary: An Anthology of Welsh Innovative Poetry 1966 – 2018 edited by John Goodby and Lyndon Davies

Aquifer Books, £13.00

The Edge of Necessary is an excellent, fascinating and essential anthology, and its subtitle, An Anthology of Welsh Innovative Poetry, raises some interesting questions. What exactly is innovative poetry? What, for that matter, is non-innovative poetry? And who are the non-innovative poets, those devilish folk, hunched over their non-innovative poems, spilling their non-innovative words in the direction of the world, grinning their wicked and non-innovative grins?

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About the author

Jonathan Edwards’s first collection, My Family and Other Superheroes (2014) received the Costa Poetry Award. His second collection, Gen, was published in 2018.