Who are the best contemporary English poets? Pic related (maybe)

>>9119165
Devlin

>>9119165
Anne Carson, by some distance

>>9119165
whose this penmen femen?

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>>9119621
"Katherine Larson is an American poet, molecular biologist and field ecologist. She is the 2010 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and her first collection of poetry, Radial Symmetry, ... Wikipedia"

>>9119165
>Pic related (maybe)
Today I dissected a squid,
the late acacia tossing its pollen
across the black of the lab bench.
In a few months the maples
will be bleeding. That was the thing:
there was no blood
only textures of gills creased like satin,
suction cups as planets in rows. Be careful
not to cut your finger, he says. But I’m thinking
of fingertips on my lover’s neck
last June. Amazing, hearts.
This brachial heart. After class,
I stole one from the formaldehyde
& watched it bloom in my bathroom sink
between cubes of ice.

Carol Ann Duffy is hated by schoolkids around the country because of her smegma core poetry. Phillip Larkin wannabe but unable to fill his boots because she's a she. And a lesbian. And somewhat Scottish.