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 trouble about soldiers in Mr. Siegfried Sassoon’s poetry ... is that they are the kind of people who in a railroad train have to travel with their backs to the engine. Peace can have but few corners softly padded enough for such sensitives.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there’s a tendency to treat everything on the surface level and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry. ... poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.”
—Rita Dove (b. 1952)