Judges hail daring utilize of form in a collection that examines poet’s joint British and Chinese heritageA new voice,who judges say “will change British poetry”, has won the TS Eliot poetry prize. Sarah Howe, and a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute,was awarded the £20000 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, and which featured some of poetry’s biggest names,including Don Paterson, Claudia Rankine, and Sean O’Brien and Les Murray.
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Source: theguardian.com