The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry was a poetry anthology edited by Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion, and published in 1982 by Penguin Books. The traditional claims made, and recognised as such in the Introduction, about a new British poet generation moving to take over the 'mainstream', were greeted in this case by more than the usual controversy. Poets in the Alvarez The New Poetry were excluded.

Poets in The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry

Fleur Adcock - Douglas Dunn - James Fenton - Tony Harrison - Seamus Heaney - Michael Longley - Derek Mahon - Medbh McGuckian - Paul Muldoon - Tom Paulin - Craig Raine - Christopher Reid - Carol Rumens - Peter Scupham - Penelope Shuttle - Anne Stevenson - David Sweetman - Jeffrey Wainwright - Hugo Williams