Saturday, April 23, 2011

Will the Wales 2011 Book of the Year be poetry?

The Long List for the 2011 Wales Book of the Year includes the work of three poets:

Pascale Petit, What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo (Seren Books, 2010).
Patrick McGuinness, Jilted City (Carcanet, 2010).
Alan Wall, Doctor Placebo (Shearsman, 2010).

Links
Literature Wales, "The Long List" (www.literaturewales.org).
Literature Wales, "Eligible Books" (www.literaturewales.org).
Patrick McGuinness page at Carcanet (www.carcanet.co.uk).
Pascale Petit, three poems from What the Water Gave Me (www.fridakahlo.it).
Alan Wall, extracts from Doctor Placebo (www.shearsman.com).