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Sorry Jamie are you a fan of container ships? On 4 October 2015 at 13:23, Jamie McKendrick <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > A footnote on one of the British poetry prizes: this year's short list for > the Forward Best Collection comprised three Irish poets Eilean Ni > Chuilleanain (sorry, no accents), Ciaran Carson, Paul Muldoon, Peter Riley > of this manor, and, the winner, Jamaican born, US poet Claudia Rankine > (originally published in the US by Graywolf). Last year's winner of the > same prize was the Jamaican poet Kei Miller. I don't think a couple of > years' prizes makes everything fair and open in the poetry world but it's > an encouraging sign that value isn't just being sought in the most > conventional and parochial zones. > Jamie -- David Joseph Bircumshaw Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw Tumblr: http://zantikus.tumblr.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.com