Poems of the Decade : An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry Whitney Award for Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction (2015) and treachery lurks at every

and treachery lurks at every turn

If you act like a Mafia don

cornfields and potato drills We trekked and picked until the cans were full

Choose the Only Guide That Gives

with a chain around his neck

Poems of the Decade : An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry Whitney Award for Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction (2015) and treachery lurks at everyPoems of the Decade brings together more than one hundred poems from the many thousands submitted to the Forward Prizes for Poetry in the first decade of the 21st century. The Forwards are among the world's most coveted poetry honours. They have been awarded annually since 1992 for the Best Collection, Best First Collection and Best Single Poem published in Britain and Ireland, and the roster of winning, shortlisted and highly commended poets