Forward prize goes to Kathleen Jamie [Scotland]
Kathleen Jamie at:
For only the third time in the Forward prizes' 13-year history, the lucrative award for best collection has been won by a woman.
Kathleen Jamie was today awarded the £10,000 prize for The Tree House (Picador). Previous female recipients of the prize were Carol-Ann Duffy and Jo Shapcott.
Lavinia Greenlaw, who chaired this year's judging panel and announced the winners in a ceremony at the Groucho Club this evening, praised the high quality of all the shortlisted collections, but concluded by saying that "in the end, The Tree House stood out as a book which enlarges not only Kathleen Jamie's own oeuvre but the scope and capacity of poetry being written today."
Kathleen Jamie at:
- Poetry Daily: "Before the Wind" [text]
- The Poem: "Julian of Norwich" [text]
- Griffin Trust: "Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead" [text & video]
- The Scottish Poetry Library: "The Creel" [text]
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