Had either poet considered their position with a modicum of interest in the real world, each would most surely have allowed their works to compete against the remaining eight collections, UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's The Bees (Picador), the 2011 recipient of the Forward Poetry Prize John Burnside's Black Cat Bone and Sean O'Brien's November (Pan Macmillan) foremost among them. Nope. Nothing doing.
from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: Gimme a brick! The T. S. Eliot Prize controversy that shouldn't have been
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With Spring Training looming on the horizon next month (and keeping we baseballomaniacs barely alive), we at In Other Words feel particularly generous; thus, to aid us in our generosity, Canada's premier sporty poet, none other than our inaugural Parliamentary Poet Laureate himself, George Bowering, OC, graciously provided us with a gem of a prize for the baseballophile who correctly answers the following eight trivia questions concerning the guy we prefer to refer to as our resident bullshit artist in these har parts (where dulcet greens and soaring taters make for magnificent music and even more dazzling visuals):
from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: Presenting . . . The George Bowering Baseball Trivia Quiz
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