LitfestGlamorgan University Professor Philip Gross was announced last night as the winner of the £15,000 2009 T S Eliot Prize for poetry.
Gross’ collection The Water Table, published by Bloodaxe, beat a strong shortlist including Fred D’Aguiar and George Szirtes.
The T S Eliot Prize for Poetry was inaugurated in 1993 to celebrate the Poetry Book Society’s 40th birthday and honour its founding poet.
Chair of the Judges, Simon Armitage said: “Gross takes us from Great Flood to subtly invoked concerns for our watery planet; this is a mature and determined book, dream-like in places, but dealing ultimately with real questions of human existence.”
The shortlist in full:
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)
so, do you think we should really get a copy? Just, like, you know, for reference?
Comment by sarah — January 20, 2010 @ 12:26 pm