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| Left: Sinéad Morrissey Right: Rebecca Goss |
Carcanet is delighted that two of our poets, Sinéad Morrissey and Rebecca Goss (pictured) have been shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection.
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| Parallax by Sinéad Morrissey |
Rebecca Goss's first Carcanet/Northern house collection, Her Birth, mourns the passing of her baby daughter, Ella, who was diagnosed with an incurable heart condition and died aged sixteen months. Click here to see the Observer's interview with Rebecca (Sunday 6th July 2013).
Jeanette Winterson, who chairs a judging panel consisting of the actor/director Samuel West, the journalist David Mills and the poets Paul Farley and Sheenagh Pugh, says: “This is a powerful year for poetry. We made our choices looking for poems that used a lit-up living language and had a sense of purpose.”
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| Her Birth by Rebecca Goss |
Both collections are available now in paperback and ebook.
The Forward Prizes for Poetry 2013 will be awarded on 1st October at the Southbank Centre by Jeanette Winterson. Also on the shortlist are Glyn Maxwell, Jacob Polley and Michael Symmons Roberts.
The 22nd Forward Book of Poetry, an anthology of all the poems shortlisted for the prizes or highly commended by the judges, will be launched at the same event.
Click here to find out more and buy your tickets.
