British poetry
British poetry is the field of British literature encompassing poetry from anywhere in the British world – whether of the British Isles, the British Empire, or the United Kingdom. == Types == English poetry Irish poetry from Northern Ireland Scottish poetry (see Scottish literature) Welsh poetry Jèrriais poetry Guernésiais poetry Manx poetry Cornish poetry == Women poets == The critic Lyn Pykett has written that "A trawl through anthologies of British or English verse quickly discovers the exclusion of women from the traditions of British poetry".