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Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott | Poetry review
Jo Shapcott's enigmatic poems fight shy of referring directly to her battle with cancerOf Mutability is, as its title suggests, a protean collection: the poems keep shifting ground, subtly transforming...
View ArticleIn pictures: Costa book awards 2010
As this year's winners of the Costa book awards are announced, get up to speed with all the category winners ahead of the overall prize announcement at the end of January
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Who should win the Costa?
It's not just the Oscar nominations today. Tonight, the winner of the Costa book of the year is announcedThe Costa book of the year award– announced tonight at Quaglino's in London – is particular in...
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Jo Shapcott's Costa prize is a surprise victory for poetry
Of Mutability, which examines Jo Shapcott's experience of breast cancer, was a worthy winnerWho'd have thought it? For the second year in a row, poetry has triumphed at the Costas. Jo Shapcott's...
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Jo Shapcott takes Costa book of the year award for Of Mutability
Bookies' favourite Edmund de Waal misses out as judges praise Shapcott's 'very special and unusual and uplifting' collectionIn a surprise result for the Costa book of the year award, poet Jo Shapcott...
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Jo Shapcott: the book of life
Jo Shapcott's poetry collection Of Mutability won the Costa prize this week. She talks here about how cancer transformed her outlook – and her workIn 2003, Jo Shapcott – a poet of shifting territories,...
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Forward poetry prize: who got rid of the women?
The all-male shortlist for this year's prize is sadly true to form. But apportioning blame is not easyThe 2011 Forward prize shortlist has been announced. It's an anniversary year: the prize is...
View ArticleJo Shapcott reads her poem I Go Inside the Tree - video
Jo Shapcott, winner of the Costa book of the year award for Of Mutability, reads her poem I Go Inside the TreeLaurence TophamMichael Tait
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Jo Shapcott wins Queen's gold medal for poetry
Costa prize-winning poet follows illustrious predecessors including WH Auden and John BetjemanThe poet Jo Shapcott, who began the year by winning the Costa book of the year award for her collection Of...
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Artists, performers and politicians on the Guardian Open Weekend
Some of the speakers at the festival of ideas and open journalism share their highlights and reflectionsIndia Knight, novelist"The atmosphere here is very friendly: the crowd at my event, on gender...
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Poetry Parnassus to gather poets from every Olympic nation
Organisers of the Cultural Olympiad event are still looking for artists from 23 countries, and need the public to help them• See the full list of poets hereFrom Ireland's Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney...
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Sixty years in poems
Carol Ann Duffy invites leading poets to recall a year in verse1953 Dannie Abse Winged BackStrange the potency of a cheap dance tune. – Noel CowardOne such winged me back to a different post-code, to...
View ArticleLondon 2012: Poetry in the Olympic Park – in pictures
Take a look at the poems from Carol Ann Duffy, Jo Shapcott, Alfred Tennyson and others which Winning Words have woven into the fabric of the Olympic Park
View ArticleGuardian Books poetry podcast: Jo Shapcott reads Emily Dickinson
Jo Shapcott kicks off a new series of poets reading from their favourite work by another author. Shapcott picks Emily DickinsonJo ShapcottTim Maby
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Sylvia Plath gets all-star tribute for Ariel anniversary
Actors and poets including Juliet Stevenson and Jo Shapcott will gather to recite the entire collection 50 years on from its publication"The muse," wrote Sylvia Plath to her friend and fellow poet Ruth...
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Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott | Poetry review
Jo Shapcott's enigmatic poems fight shy of referring directly to her battle with cancerOf Mutability is, as its title suggests, a protean collection: the poems keep shifting ground, subtly transforming...
View ArticleIn pictures: Costa book awards 2010
As this year's winners of the Costa book awards are announced, get up to speed with all the category winners ahead of the overall prize announcement at the end of January
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who should win the Costa?
It's not just the Oscar nominations today. Tonight, the winner of the Costa book of the year is announcedThe Costa book of the year award– announced tonight at Quaglino's in London – is particular in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jo Shapcott's Costa prize is a surprise victory for poetry
Of Mutability, which examines Jo Shapcott's experience of breast cancer, was a worthy winnerWho'd have thought it? For the second year in a row, poetry has triumphed at the Costas. Jo Shapcott's...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jo Shapcott takes Costa book of the year award for Of Mutability
Bookies' favourite Edmund de Waal misses out as judges praise Shapcott's 'very special and unusual and uplifting' collectionIn a surprise result for the Costa book of the year award, poet Jo Shapcott...
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