Helen Dunmore wins National Poetry Competition
Writer best known for her novels, who submitted work at the last minute 'on impulse', takes £5,000 award for single poem 'The Malarkey'
Read the winning poem here
Picking through the 10,467 anonymous entries for this year's National Poetry Competition, judges and poets Ruth Padel, Daljit Nagra and Neil Rollinson were sure of their winner, "The Malarkey", which Padel described as "completely arresting in its quietness [and] hidden strength". When they discovered it was by Orange prize-winning novelist and poet Helen Dunmore, "we all threw our hats in the air", said Padel.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 30 March, 2010
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