There’s an air of disappointment in the office today. Siân Hughes’ The Missing just missed out on the Forward Best First Collection award.
The prize went to Emma Jones’s The Striped World published by Faber. Don Patterson’s Rain, another Faber title, won the Best Collection award. Robin Robertson won Best Single Poem for ‘At Roane Head’. Congratulations to the winners on their success.
Chris, Charlotte and I were at Somerset House last night, along with a number of other Salt authors, to cheer Siân on. We left disappointed.
Yet with the announcement today of The Missing being shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, we have renewed hopes that she will collect a well-deserved prize this year.
