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Jen Hadfield wins the TS Eliot prize

January 13, 2009
A relative newcomer to poetry who has been widely praised for her passion and awareness of the natural world has won one of the genre's grandest awards – the TS Eliot prize for poetry.
Shetland-based Jen Hadfield won for Nigh-No-Place, her second book of poetry written in Shetland and also while travelling across Canada. It includes poems such as ‘Paternoster’, which is the Lord’s Prayer as spoken by a draught horse and ‘Ten-Minute Break Haiku’, Hadfield’s response to working in a fish factory.

Read the full article here.

Jen Hadfield is featured on the UK domain of PIW. Read her biography and a selection of her poems here.
Source: guardian.co.uk, 12 January 2009
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