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:
““Poetry’s unnat’ral; no man ever talked poetry ‘cept a beadle on boxin’ day, or Warren’s blackin’ or Rowland’s oil, or some o’ them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.””
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)