Tuesday, January 13, 2009

News at Eleven: Even the "gut-worms" she had to pluck

from their stomach cavities make an appearance in print.

Poetry is a most unreliable occupation, and [Jen] Hadfield admits that "the financial thing is terrifying - I'm a bit of a control person and I don't like uncertainty". But now the T.S. Eliot prize has given her, as she says, "plenty of writing time" to come.

Glid

I turn the camera on my dissolving self,

from The Times: Jen Hadfield: a jaunty voice from the isles
also The Independent: Poetry enters remarkable new territory

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