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These are the words of Harold Bloom, commending Melanie Challenger’s Galatea. It was shortlisted for the 2007 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. I asked Melanie about her feelings towards being nominated: How did it feel when you discovered Galatea had been shortlisted? Naturally, as there are not massive audiences for new poetry, [...] 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 [...] …and we’re celebrating our Forward history On Wednesday evening (7th October) we shall discover the winners of this year’s Forward Prizes. Our very own Siân Hughes is in the running to win Best First Collection for The Missing. We’ll be at Somerset House to cheer her on. Salt has a rich history of Forward shortlisted [...] “Just a note here about a slim Salt Publishing publication I recently read, Siân Hughes’s The Missing. The Missing is a first book, but it’s author is no novice at life.” Read more … “Siân Hughes’ use of idiomatic language is superb, and often has the effect of lulling the reader into a feeling of the quotidian, leaving him or her unprepared for the poem’s ending.” Read more … “Towards the end of last week I read Sian Hughes’s The Missing, shortlisted for this year’s Forward Prize for Best First Collection. I haven’t read the other books on the shortlist so I can’t comment on who should win, but I can say that this one’s really good – a brief, affecting, plain and [...] “For once, a collection outdoes its blurb – as mentioned in a previous post, “The Missing” is an exceptional book in the context of contemporary U.K. poetry. “Siân Hughes’ subject matters in “The Missing” are signposted from the start. Her lost third child and the end of a relationship are themes that run [...] The only poetry on the longlist is The Missing by Siân Hughes, a collection that deals with parenting, illness, loss, regret and ill-fated love. Read more … Siân Hughes has been shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Best First Collection Prize in the 2009 Forward Prizes for her collection The Missing. |
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