Wednesday 10 October 2007

Sean O'Brien wins his third Forward Prize


This is an annual prize for the best poetry collection published in the previous year. at £10,000 it's not enough to live on but better than the pittance usually paid for a single poem.

But with the paucity of payment in poetry (how poetic is that phrase, readers?) can't they spread it about a bit?

His collection is called The Drowned Book. (I know a few books I would drown, some of them poetry.)
The prize of £5,000 for the best first collection goes to Daljit Nagra for Look we have coming to Dover and the prize for the best single poem goes to Alice Oswald.

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