Poetry
Winner:
- John Burnside, The Asylum Dance
Shortlist:
- Michael Donaghy, Conjure
- R F Langley, Collected Poems
- Anne Stevenson, Granny Scarecrow
- Maurice Riordan, Floods
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Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“If there’s no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the past, how little to the future, how much to the East, how little to the West.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)