Poetry
Winner:
- Michael Symmons Roberts, Corpus
Shortlist:
- Leontia Flynn, These Days
- John Fuller, Ghosts
- Matthew Hollis, Ground Water
- Michael Symmons Roberts, Corpus
Read more about this topic: 2004 Whitbread Awards
Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over Homer.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“For me, poetry is always a search for order.”
—Elizabeth Jennings (b. 1926)
“A poet’s object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)