Was this a bad year or what? Apart from Making It Stick (Inada) the only ones I liked I'd already read, namely Atomic Bride (Ellis)- in the Seriously Funny anthology, possibly - and those by personal faves Beth Lisick and Jennifer L Knox. Some big names fall flat on their faces here, though there's the first William Matthews that's ever engaged me and it was nice to see countercultural stalwarts Lewis Warsh AND Terence Winch, both of whose poems end well - always a good signPublish it not in the streets of Askelon, but maybe there are only so many good poems, so much 'memorable speech', out there. Or maybe the kind of elliptical, fragile poems that tend to see print these days need, like artworks, the surrounding context of an oeuvre to show at their best