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It's difficult not to point out that (so I will) $140,000 is way way more
than any of the annual grants available to writers, which top at about (I
think) $40,000.
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According to the Poetry Society website (http://www.poetrysoc.com) , Gwyneth
Lewis has just received a grant of GBP75,000 from a body called NESTA. They
gave Carol Ann Duffy one recently, too. And I remember Lavinia Greenlaw
getting some astronomical sum not long ago, though I'm not sure whether it
was from the same organization. So it does happen over here. No one has
shown much sign of giving one to me so far, though.
Best wishes
Matthew
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