Divided by a Common Verse: Jorie Graham Wins the Forward Poetry Prize The prestigious British Forward poetry prize just announced that American Jorie Graham won. Judge Emma Hogan on what her victory tells us about the different verse styles of the U.S. and Britain
There is something of O'Hara's playfulness in the winner of our best first collection, the British poet Sam Riviere, for his first book, 81 Austerities, which can tackle the British government's cuts to arts funding in one poem and internet pornography in another. Graham takes commonp...
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The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company LLC
05.10.2012
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| Summary: | There is something of O'Hara's playfulness in the winner of our best first collection, the British poet Sam Riviere, for his first book, 81 Austerities, which can tackle the British government's cuts to arts funding in one poem and internet pornography in another. Graham takes commonplace experiences--the shocking aftermath of witnessing a dog being hit by a car, or the experience of pushing your child on a swing--and puzzles over them, finding philosophical or metaphysical questions in the most everyday of things, while managing to be free of affectation. |
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