TS Eliot prize: poet Sarah Howe wins with ‘amazing’ debutPosted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, Media Archive, United Kingdom on 2016-01-13 15:42Z by Steven |
TS Eliot prize: poet Sarah Howe wins with ‘amazing’ debut
The Guardian
2016-01-11
Mark Brown, Arts correspondent
 Sarah Howe, a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, could ‘change British poetry’. Photograph: Hayley Madden/FMcM/PA |
Judges hail daring use of form in a collection that examines poet’s joint British and Chinese heritage
A new voice, who judges say “will change British poetry”, has won the TS Eliot poetry prize. Sarah Howe, a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute, was awarded the £20,000 prize for Loop of Jade, which explores her dual British and Chinese heritage.
Howe’s work – the first debut poetry collection to win the British prize since it was inaugurated in 1993 – triumphed over a particularly strong shortlist, which featured some of poetry’s biggest names, including Don Paterson, Claudia Rankine, Sean O’Brien and Les Murray…
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