The New Generation Poets is a group of 1994 British poets whose work was featured in a month-long nationwide festival,<ref>David Lister, "New generation of writers presents poetry in motion: Some of today's best poetic talents tend to eschew writing of love", The Independent, 13 January 1994.</ref> many of the writers going on to considerable popular success. The 20 poets were chosen by a panel of judges comprising Melvyn Bragg (non-voting chair), poets Michael Longley and Vicki Feaver, literary critic James Wood, Margaret Busby (publisher and author) and John Osborne (Professor of American Studies at Hull University and editor of the poetry magazine Bête Noire).<ref>Announcement, Poets on Poets, The Poetry Review (Volume 83, No. 4, 1993), The Poetry Society.</ref><ref>"Editorial: Poetry as publicity", The New Welsh Review, Issue 25.</ref>
The New Generation Poets were featured in an edition of The South Bank Show, presented by Melvyn Bragg, on 2 October 1994,<ref>"New Generation Poets", IMDb.</ref><ref>"New Generation Poets (1994)", BFI.</ref> and were also the focus of a special issue of Poetry Review.<ref>Peter Forbes (ed.), "New Generation Poets: Poetry Review Special Issue", 1 May 1994.</ref><ref>Stan Smith, "The things that words give a name to: The 'New Generation' poets and the politics of the hyperreal", in Critical Survey, Vol. 8, No. 3 (1996), pp. 306–322.</ref>
The list of poets comprises:<ref>"Previous Generations: 1994's New Generation Poets", Poetry Book Society.</ref><ref>"New Generation 1994", Poetry Book Society.</ref> Template:Div col
- Moniza Alvi
- Simon Armitage
- John Burnside
- Robert Crawford
- David Dabydeen
- Michael Donaghy
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Ian Duhig
- Elizabeth Garrett
- Lavinia Greenlaw
- W. N. Herbert
- Michael Hofmann
- Mick Imlah
- Kathleen Jamie
- Jamie McKendrick
- Sarah Maguire
- Glyn Maxwell
- Don Paterson
- Pauline Stainer
- Susan Wicks.