Thread for recommendations of exciting collections of poetry published when the writers were over 40. Very interested in New Phase poets i.e. those who began later in life. Sell 'em to us! (Don't mind you saying yourself though mentioning another name too would be superlovely!)

As well as Wallace, I'd add to those pictured Pascale Petit (44), Ruth Stone (44), Julia Webb (50), Mark Granier (54), Carole Bromley (56), Fergus Allen (72). Many folk publish their debut after 40 & lots of my most talented students at the OU are in that category. #NeverTooLate

And I wish it didn't have to be a category! This is in response to what I see as the frequent 'othering' of older writers, the silent exclusions that happen not just via the decisions of individuals but at a broader, structural level within literary culture.

(There's an equal number of young writers whose work I love tho I find it frustrating when words like 'new' & 'exciting' seem reserved for them only when, as both a creative writing lecturer & prize/competition judge, I see poems that are exactly those things by older writers.)