Forward goes to David Harsent [UK]:
Crime writer scoops poetry prize
This year's Forward prize for best collection - one of the most prestigious poetry awards in the British literary calendar - has been awarded to David Harsent for Legion (Faber), his contemporary take on war poetry.and
Crime writer scoops poetry prize
A poet who publishes crime novels has won the UK's most valuable poetry prize, worth £10,000.
David Harsent, 62, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection for Legion, which the judges called "exceptional".
Harsent, who was previously shortlisted in 2002, writes the Detective Sergeant Stella Mooney crime fiction series under the pseudonym David Lawrence. [...]
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