Tuesday, November 03, 2009

News at Eleven: [D.H. Maitreyabandhu] said he was delighted

to win the £3,000 prize. "I feel I owe so much to both Keats and Shelley," he said. "I think of them as friends, or rather mentors--poetic and spiritual."

Todd was joined on the judging panel by the poets John Hartley Williams and Matthew Sweeney and Professor Herbert JC Grierson.

The Small Boy and the Mouse by D H Maitreyabandhu

When he closed his eyes and asked the question,

from The Guardian: Keats-Shelley prize goes to Buddhist poet

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