Congratulations to Carcanet for paying equal attention to new poets and to modern classics. The Collected H.D., Mina Loy, William Carlos Williams, and Yvor Winters are all essential books, and Carcanet is doing a public service keeping them in print.
Thom Gunn
News
Three Carcanet poets on 2009 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist
Monday, 26 Oct 2009
Carcanet has three poets on this year'sT.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry: Fred D’Aguiar, Jane Draycott and Sinéad Morrissey. Judges Simon Armitage, Colette Bryce and Penelope Shuttle chose from all poetry titles published during 2009. Chair Armitage said: ‘We believe this to be the most wide-ranging shortlist for a poetry prize for a good number of years, one which reflects the scope, breadth and vitality of contemporary poetry.’ Armitage went on to describe the shortlisted authors as ‘poets who have dreamed and who have dared’. The winner of the £15,000 prize will be announced on Monday 18th January. The shortlist is as follows:
Eiléan Ní Chuilleánain, The Sun-fish (Gallery) Fred D'Aguiar, Continental Shelf (Carcanet) Jane Draycott, Over (Carcanet) Philip Gross,The Water Table (Bloodaxe) Sinéad Morrissey, Through the Square Window (Carcanet) Sharon Olds, One Secret Thing (Cape) Alice Oswald, Weeds & Wild Flowers (Faber) Christopher Reid, A Scattering (Areté) George Szirtes, The Burning of the Books and Other Poems (Bloodaxe) Hugo Williams, West End Final (Faber)
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