Poetry
Winner:
- Bernard O’Donoghue, Gunpowder
Shortlist:
- Simon Armitage, The Dead Sea Poems
- Tony Harrison, The Shadow of Hiroshima and other film/poems
- Glyn Maxwell, Rest for the Wicked
Read more about this topic: 1995 Whitbread Awards
Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If there’s no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don’t go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It’s always so.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)