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Poet and biographer Richard Greene, who teaches at the University of Toronto and won a Governor General’s Literary Award in 2010, has written a new biography of Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964), reports the Montreal Gazette. Long overdue (the last bio of Sitwell was A Unicorn Among Lions, published in 1981), Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, [...]
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Carol Ann Duffy won the Costa Poetry Prize and Matthew Hollis won best biography for his book on Edward Thomas. From this BBC article: Poet and debut biographer Matthew Hollis beat off stiff competition from Claire Tomalin’s best-se... Read Post

The University of Wales has just announced that Clamor, a first book by Philadelphia poet Elyse Fenton, has won the Dylan Thomas Prize for writers under 30: American poet Elyse Fenton has been awarded this year’s £30,000 ($48,000) U... Read Post

Harry Potter’s publisher–Bloomsbury–will be reviving hundreds of out-of-print titles for a new digital imprint called Bloomsbury Reader, reports The Guardian, including works by poets Edith Sitwell, her younger brother Sacheverell, ... Read Post