carol ann duffy
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This week, Carol Ann Duffy launched her new poetry prize: the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for the most exciting contribution to poetry in that year. It’s a generous gesture from the new laureate, though questions have been asked about whether we need another poetry award. The test will be the shortlists:
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David Kinloch is certainly a busy man this weather: besides being involved in the bid to establish a writers centre in Glasgow’s Merchant City, he’s the main force behind Vital Synz, a new Glasgow poetry society, which launches on Tuesday 6 November at Òran Mór with a reading by Liz Lochhead and Carol Ann Duffy.
Amy Jo Philip 