| Editor | Edward Lucie-Smith |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd, Viking Penguin, Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Penguin Books Canada Ltd, Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd |
| Cover Artist | Jon Whitaker |
| Publisher Series | Penguin Poetry |
| Printed and Bound by | Cox & Wyman Ltd |
| Poetry by | Edwin Muir, Hugh MacDiarmid, Robert Graves, David Jones, Basil Bunting, John Betjeman, Louis MacNeice, Dylan Thomas, David Gascoyne, Vernon Watkins, Lawrence Durrell, George Barker, C. H. Sisson, Thomas Blackburn, John Heath-Stubbs, W. S. Graham, Bernard Spencer, Roy Fuller, Stevie Smith, Charles Causley, R. S. Thomas, Patricia Beer, Philip Larkin, Donald Davie, Elizabeth Jennings, D. J. Enright, Kingsley Amis, Thom Gunn, Francis Berry, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Al Alvarez, Jon Silkin, Philip Hobsbaum, Martin Bell, Peter Porter, Peter Redgrove, George MacBeth, Edward Lucie-Smith, David Wevill, Michael Hamburger, Christopher Middleton, Charles Tomlinson, Matthew Mead, Gael Turnbull, Roy Fisher, Geoffrey Hill, Karen Gershon, Nathaniel Tarn, Peter Levi, Harry Guest, Tom Raworth, Lee Harwood, Tony Harrison, George Szirtes, Anthony Thwaite, Alan Brownjohn, Tony Connor, Jon Stallworthy, Dom Moraes, Peter Dale, Brian Jones, D. M. Thomas, Barry Cole, Miles Burrows, Ken Smith, Douglas Dunn, Christopher Logue, Adrian Mitchell, Robert Garioch, Norman MacCaig, George MacKay Brown, Edwin Morgan, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Iain Crichton Smith, D. M. Black, Alan Bold, Adrian Henri, Henry Graham, Roger McGough, Brian Patten, Jeff Nuttall, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin, Medbh McGuckian, John Fuller, James Fenton, Craig Raine, Andrew Motion, Peter Scupham, David Sweetman, David Constantine, Kit Wright |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Harmondsworth; New York; Ringwood; Markham; Auckland |
| Reprinted | 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982 |
| Revised Edition | 1985 |
| Copyright | 1970, 1985 |
| Pages / Font | 423 pages / 9/11 Linotron Bembo |
| ISBN | 0 14 042.332 X |
| Price | U.K. £3.95 / AUST. $7.95 (recommended) / N.Z. $15.50 / CAN. $8.95 |
