Poetry
Winner:
- Paul Farley, The Ice Age
Shortlist:
- David Constantine, Something for the Ghosts
- Ruth Padel, Voodoo Shop
- Sheenagh Pugh, The Beautiful Lie
Read more about this topic: 2002 Whitbread Awards
Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)