follows an upset in the earlier round of voting when the Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney was beaten to the poetry category prize by John Haynes with Letter to Patience. The collection, a 52-canto sequence in iambic pentameter that took him 13 years to write, was partly based on Haynes's experiences as a teacher in Nigeria and is only his third published work.from Michelle Pauli & Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Surprise win for Canadian epic at inaugural Costa award
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