Claudia Rankine's Citizen wins Forward poetry prize

Citizen was described by the jury as a "powerful book for our time". The chair of judges, AL Kennedy, added: "This is writing we can recommend with real urgency and joy. It's a stylistically daring poetic project about the dehumanisation of those deemed outsiders - we found it ex...

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Published inThe Guardian (London)
Main Author Brown, Mark
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Guardian News & Media Limited 29.09.2015
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Rankine, Claudia
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Summary:Citizen was described by the jury as a "powerful book for our time". The chair of judges, AL Kennedy, added: "This is writing we can recommend with real urgency and joy. It's a stylistically daring poetic project about the dehumanisation of those deemed outsiders - we found it exhilarating and genuinely transformative." Kate Kellaway, reviewing in the Observer, wrote: "[[Claudia Rankine]'s] achievement is to have created a bold work that occupies its own space powerfully, an unsettled hybrid -- her writing on the hard shoulder of prose. She eavesdrops on America and a racism that has never gone away."
ISSN:0261-3077