Tuesday, December 07, 2010

News at Eleven: Clamor was born out of Ms. [Elyse] Fenton's

US medic husband being deployed to Iraq and the fragments of instant messaging conversations they shared over the internet.

Judge Peter Florence, founder of the Hay Literary Festival, called the winning work "spectacular".

"It's a great winner. It's an astonishing, fully accomplished book of huge ambition and spectacular delivery. For this prize of all prizes it's great to have a poet."

from BBC News: US poet wins £30,000 Dylan Thomas prize

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