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I have, if you haven’t noticed, been away for a few days. FH and I decided that we fancied a jaunt up to Edinburgh to see friends and family, and generally to see the city outside the festival season (the only chance I’ve had to go up there in the last couple of years is [...]
Well that was a bit of a shocker – Colm Toibin was the odds on favourite to take home the overall Costa Book Prize last night, but it went instead to Christopher Reid for his poetry collection A Scattering. Very many congratulations to him!
Although I haven’t read the collection – and indeed, I don’t read [...]
January 27, 2010 in book news, poetry, prizes
Tagged a scattering, christopher reid, colm toibin, costa book awards, poetry
Tagged a scattering, christopher reid, colm toibin, costa book awards, poetry
Reaction to Hilary Mantel winning the Booker:
Video of Mantel talking about Wolf Hall
Did the right woman win?
Rescusing the Tudor court from cliche
“I have no inclination to read a book set in Tudor England.”
Today is National Poetry Day:
TS Eliot is the Nation’s Favourite Poet, apparently. I can assure you he isn’t mine.
The blog of a Forward [...]
October 8, 2009 in fiction, news & media, poetry, prizes
Tagged booker prize, books, don paterson, forward poetry prize, herta muller, hilary mantel, nobel prize for literature
Tagged booker prize, books, don paterson, forward poetry prize, herta muller, hilary mantel, nobel prize for literature
Or, at least, it certainly looks that way. I am dreadfully excited. Not only does this mark a momentous moment in women’s writing – the first female Poet Laureate – but Carol Ann Duffy is probably my favourite contemporary poet. And she’s Glaswegian. I am really quite thrilled, and I hope that she enjoys her [...]
A couple of bit of literary prize news filtered down to me last night and this morning.
First up, the longlist for the Man Booker International Prize, which is given once every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work is generally available in translation in the [...]
March 19, 2009 in fiction, poetry, prizes
Tagged books, david cohen prize, man book international prize, seamus heaney
Tagged books, david cohen prize, man book international prize, seamus heaney
“But was it rape?” The F-Word on why we’re still only saying that locking yourself in a room with a woman and having sex with her when she in incapacitated might be rape.
A fascinating post on postnatal depression over at Mothers for Women’s Lib.
Catherine may actually save my life (and certainly my sanity) with her [...]
Elsewhere on the interweb:
I asked my fellow OUPers for their favourite books of 2008
Batgirl demands equal pay (via Feministe)
Also from Feministe: Sorry ladies, but your vagina conflicts with my morals
Yes, I am entering the Times/Waterstone’s Christmas quiz. The prize is £500 of book vouchers. OF COURSE I’m going to enter!
Les Miserables sequel novels are allowed [...]
Not the TV Book Group
Sun 07 Feb: Brodeck's Report - Philippe Claudel
Sun 21 Feb: The Girl with the Glass Feet - Ali Shaw
Sun 07 Mar: Vanessa and Virginia - Susan Sellers
Sun 21 Mar: The Illusionist - Jennifer Johnston
Sun 11 Apr: Skin Lane - Neil Bartlett
Sun 25 Apr: The Boys in the Trees - Mary Swan
Sun 09 May: A Short Gentleman - Jon Canter
Sun 23 May: Fledgling - Octavia E. ButlerReading Challenge
The Equality Illusion - Kat Banyard
The Women's Room - Marilyn French
Letters from a Fainthearted Feminist - Jill Tweedie
Ideala - Sarah Grand
Singled Out - Virginia Nicholson
Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education - Jane Robinson
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
The Color Purple - Alice Walker-
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