Forward Prize shortlists
The 1999 Forward Prize shortlists for poetry have been announced. Shortlisted for the £10,000 Forward Prize for Best Collection are: Kate Clanchy for Samarkand (Picador), Jane Draycott for Prince Rupert's Drop (OUP), Carol Ann Duffy for The World's Wife (Picador), Paul Muldoon for Hay (Faber) and Jo
Shapcott for My Life Asleep (OUP).
Shortlisted for the £5,000 Waterstones Prize for Best First Collection are: Matthew Caley for Thirst (Slow Dancer Press), Amanda Dalton for How to Disappear (Bloodaxe), Nick Drake for The Man in the White Suit (Bloodaxe), Christopher North for A Mesh of Wires (Smith/Doorstop) and Christiania Whitehead for The Garden of Slender Trust (Bloodaxe).
Shortlisted for the £1,000 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem are: Caroline Carver for "Horse Under Water", Robert Crawford for "Zero", Robert Minhinnick for "Twenty-five Laments for Iraq", George Szirtes for "Backwaters: Norfolk Fields" and R S Thomas for "Blackbird". The winners will be announced on 6th October.
Shortlisted for the £5,000 Waterstones Prize for Best First Collection are: Matthew Caley for Thirst (Slow Dancer Press), Amanda Dalton for How to Disappear (Bloodaxe), Nick Drake for The Man in the White Suit (Bloodaxe), Christopher North for A Mesh of Wires (Smith/Doorstop) and Christiania Whitehead for The Garden of Slender Trust (Bloodaxe).
Shortlisted for the £1,000 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem are: Caroline Carver for "Horse Under Water", Robert Crawford for "Zero", Robert Minhinnick for "Twenty-five Laments for Iraq", George Szirtes for "Backwaters: Norfolk Fields" and R S Thomas for "Blackbird". The winners will be announced on 6th October.
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