Penguin Modern Poets was a series of 27 poetry books published by Penguin Books in the 1960s and 1970s, each containing work by three contemporary poets (mostly but not exclusively British and American).
Each volume was stated to be "an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader".
[1] The series added up to a substantial survey of English-language poetry of the time.
10, which, unlike the others, had its own title (The Mersey Sound) and which, with sales of over 500,000, has become one of the best-selling poetry anthologies ever.
A second Penguin Modern Poets series, of at least thirteen volumes on the same pattern, was launched in the 1990s.