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And Denise Riley won the Forward's Best Poem prize….. A cause for celebration, I would think. Tony On 2 Oct 2012, at 00:01, Peter Riley wrote: > Jorie Graham has won the Forward prize. > > In my opinion this completely smashes apart the Us/Them structure of the public face of poetry. > > (except that Celan is published by Penguin and there is a local tradition of accepting as foreign what you disallow as native) > > (which means that no British poet who wrote in a manner resembling Jorie Graham's would be allowed to come within 2000 Km of the Forward prize.) > > PR