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.)
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