VP50From humble, 'student hobby' beginnings in 2008, Valley Press has grown into a force to be reckoned with in UK poetry. Famed for its distinctive, no two the same cover designs, plus writing that is frequently accessible and ambitious, the press is now home to some of the UK's most exciting poetic talents. This new anthology offers a valuable overview of VP's poetry output so far. Here are fifty poems, one from each poetry title, selected by readers of

always moving and sometimes painfully funny

Clocks and watches

the libidinous Professeur Croissant and Horace his half-mad cousin

in the place

Dream Catcher 25 opens with Adam Price's 'Letter from Iraq' with its mix of loss and perspective in the clash of relationships

Among the poets featured in these pages are: Tony Harrison

Mick Imlah

but she is never sentimental in her exploration of the past because she is always acutely aware of the present - Jamaica with its poverty

Ivan Bunin

to his closely observed poems

Sending Down the Sparrows

Holy Wells: Cornwall includes over 150 photographs