The question was simple: if you knew only one of your poems would survive you, which would you choose? The forty-two poets selected for this anthology responded with some surprising choices. The poems deal with a complex variety of subjects, from the elevated to the everyday, from the political to the playful, from the memorialising of historical events, to the observation of the most fleetingly transient moments: love, loss, betrayal, joy, misery, pleasure, and everything between and around. This is a truly astonishing collection and one worthy of survival!