Poetry
Winners:
- Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level
Shortlist:
- UA Fanthorpe, Safe As Houses
- Alice Oswald, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile
- Christopher Reid, Expanded Universes
- Pauline Stainer, The Wound-dresser’s Dream
Read more about this topic: 1996 Whitbread Awards
Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“Do you know how poetry started? I always think that it started when a cave boy came running back to the cave, through the tall grass, shouting as he ran, “Wolf, wolf,” and there was no wolf. His baboon-like parents, great sticklers for the truth, gave him a hiding, no doubt, but poetry had been born—the tall story had been born in the tall grass.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
““Ask the perfumers, ask the blacking-makers, ask the hatters, ask the old lottery-office keepers—ask any man among ‘em what my poetry has done for him, and mark my words, he blesses the name of Slum. If he’s an honest man, he raises his eyes to heaven, and blesses the name of Slum—mark that!”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)