20 live poets

I have to post about this today, people, being the proud father of one of the poets featured in the following report:

A panel of judges including the Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, has chosen a "Next Generation" of 20 British poets. The writers, who are aged between 29 and 50 and come from all parts of Britain, were picked from 156 entries.
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Sophie Hannah composes wry and spiky lyrics that please many by rhyming and scanning.

Simon Armitage writes at greater length about it all, and there are paragraphs about each of the 20 poets, here:

Sophie Hannah, who was born in 1971, says the best thing about being a poet is 'being able to get a relatively civilised revenge on anyone who treats you really nastily - and plenty of people do! - by writing something cutting about them that you will still like long after you've forgotten about the horrible person'. She has published four collections, the latest being First Of The Last Chances (2003), and three novels. Hannah lives in West Yorkshire and says poets are like everyone else: 'Some are into cornflakes, others are into cocaine.' She includes Wendy Cope, George Herbert, Edna St Vincent Millay and Robert Frost among her favourites.

Also reported here, here and here. (A poem by Sophie Hannah immediately follows. Two more; and another.)