The New Poetry Author:A. Alvarez Poets such as Norman MacCaig, Philip Larkin, D. J. Enright, R. S. Thomas, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Ted HUghes, Geoffrey Hill and Sylvia Path in this anthology make it exciting and hugely influence, prefiguring as it did the new 'seriousness', the resistance to 'gentility', which strengthens poetry today.