The Penguin Book of the Prose PoemThe 'invigorating', 'stupendous' and 'exhilarating' guide (Observer) to the beguiling form which has attracted many of our most beloved writers 'It is hard to know how it could possibly be bettered' Daily Telegraph The prose poem has proven one of the most innovative and versatile poetic forms of recent years. In the century and a half since Charles Baudelaire, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde and Ivan Turgenev spread the notion of a new kind of poetry, this