British poetry is a term rarely used, as almost all poets of the British world (whether of the British Isles, the British Empire, or the United Kingdom) are clearly identified with one of the various nations within those areas.
It may include:
- English poetry
- Scottish poetry (see Scottish literature)
- Irish poetry
- Welsh poetry
- Jèrriais poetry
- Guernésiais poetry
- Manx poetry
- Cornish poetry
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—Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. Captain Shepard (Kenneth More)
“the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)