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Christopher Reid wins Costa Book Prize

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 [...]

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January 27, 2010 by Kirsty in book news, poetry, prizes
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The 2009 Costa Shortlists

The 2009 Costa Prize shortlists are now out, and what everyone’s asking is will Hilary Mantel make it a Booker/Costa double? I can already see that my loyalties will be torn as my new favourite novelist Penelope Lively is up against Ms. Mantel.
Costa Novel Award

Family Album by Penelope Lively
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Elephant Keeper [...]

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November 25, 2009 by Kirsty in auto/biography, fiction, prizes
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Link Love

Coming soon: a proper blog post! Steady now. In the meantime, however, here’s my pick of the interwebs.

Now that Ruth Padel has resigned as Oxford Professor of Poetry, who should get the job?
Along with the rest of the blogosphere, I have recently become obsessed with Awkward Family Photos.
From The F Word, an open letter to [...]

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May 26, 2009 by Kirsty in links
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Carol Ann Duffy to be Poet Laureate

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 [...]

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April 27, 2009 by Kirsty in feminism, news & media, poetry
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Sunday linkage

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 [...]

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December 21, 2008 by Kirsty in blogs, feminism, poetry, victorian literature
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