choriamb ([info]choriamb) wrote,
@ 2008-08-01 04:03:00
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Shortlist for the Forward Poetry Prizes
Emerging artists on shortlist for most valuable poetry prize
Mark Brown, The Guardian, August 1 2008

Best Collection Prize:

Sujata Bhatt: Pure Lizard
Jamie McKendrick: Crocodiles and Obelisks
Mick Imlah: The Lost Leader
Catherine Smith: Lip
Jane Griffiths: Another Country
Jen Hadfield: Nigh-No-Place

Best Single Poem:

Seamus Heaney: Cutaways
Christopher Buehlman: Wanton
Catherine Ormell: Campaign Desk, December 1812
Don Paterson: Love Poem for Natalie 'Tusja' Beridze
Kate Rhodes: Wells-next-the-Sea
Tim Turnbull: Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn

Best First Collection:

Simon Barraclough: Los Alamos Mon Amour
Andrew Forster: Fear of Thunder
Frances Leviston: Public Dream
Allison McVety: The Night Trotsky Came to Stay
Stephanie Norgate: Hidden River
Kathryn Simmonds: Sunday at the Skin Launderette.



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