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.
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> In my opinion this completely smashes apart the Us/Them structure of the public face of poetry.
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> (except that Celan is published by Penguin and there is a local tradition of accepting as foreign what you disallow as native)
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> (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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> PR
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