Poetry
Winner:
- Seamus Heaney, Beowulf
Shortlist:
- Michael Hofmann, Approximately Nowhere
- Ted Hughes, Alcestis
- Don Paterson, The Eyes
Read more about this topic: 1999 Whitbread Awards
Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“If there’s no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“For poetry makes nothing happen:”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life- outfit of a human being. It was the greatest of blessings to me, in the long days of toil to which I was shut in much earlier than most young girls are, that the poetry I held in my memory breathed its enchanted atmosphere through me and around me, and touched even dull drudgery with its sunshine.”
—Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)