Alycia Pirmohamed Wins £10k Nan Shepherd Prize
"The author will receive a £10,000 publishing contract with Canongate for her essay collection, A Beautiful and Vital Place, and an offer of representation from Caro Clarke at the Portobello Literary Agency. The winning collection comprises essays about being a queer Muslim girl in the aftermath of 9/11."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jane Huffman on Language as Form
"In 'The Rest,' I use the repeating language pattern to demonstrate a breakdown from idea into sound, from the recognizable image—a vase of flowers—into something stranger, something that attends to the 'prehistorical, preconceptual and prelinguistic' utterance 'prior to its translation into language-mediated conceptual sense.'" |
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