Poetry
Winner:
- John Burnside, The Asylum Dance
Shortlist:
- Michael Donaghy, Conjure
- R F Langley, Collected Poems
- Anne Stevenson, Granny Scarecrow
- Maurice Riordan, Floods
Read more about this topic: 2000 Whitbread Awards
Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“Prose talks and poetry sings.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface, not concluded in the appendix. Even Virgil’s poetry serves a very different use to me today from what it did to his contemporaries. It has often an acquired and accidental value merely, proving that man is still man in the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)