next year with works by poets including laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Wednesday's Forward prize winner John Burnside to be installed to in the Olympic Park.The Forward Arts Foundation announced, on National Poetry Day, that poems by Duffy and Burnside have been commissioned as part of the Winning Words project to include poetry in London 2012. Their poems will become a permanent part of the Olympic Park, with the last line from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem Ulysses--"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"--also featuring on a permanent installation in the centre of the Olympic Village, Winning Words said.
from Alison Flood: The Guardian: Poetry wins Olympics role
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Obscure Swedish poet or magnificent writer? You'd be forgiven, reading reactions to the naming of Tomas Tranströmer as the Nobel laureate for literature, for getting a little confused.
Commentary ranges from the delighted to the bemused to the angry, so let's start with Tranströmer himself. Largely unable to speak since a stroke in 1990, his wife Monica told the media that he was "surprised, very surprised" to win. "It happened very fast. We thought the winners would be told ahead of the announcement. I think Tomas was called four minutes before the announcement was made," she said. It means, she added, that "the speculation of previous years has ended" (the Swedish poet has long been a favourite to take the prize).
from Alison Flood: The Guardian: Tomas Tranströmer's Nobel prize for literature provokes a mixed response
then Alison Flood: The Guardian: Nobel prize for literature goes to Tomas Tranströmer
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