Helen Dunmore Dun Gud

January 30, 2018 7:14 PM

Author Helen Dunmore posthumously wins the Costa poetry prize. British author and poet Helen Dunmore has posthumously won the Costa prize for Book of the Year with her poetry collection Inside The Wave. Notably the inaugural winner of the Orange prize for fiction with A Spell Of Winter, she produced a number of novels, poetry collection and children's novels over her career.
posted by I'm always feeling, Blue (2 comments total)

My mum is a big fan of hers, although I've only ever read The Siege which I enjoyed (as much as one can enjoy a book about subsisting on shoe leather during the war).
posted by I'm always feeling, Blue at 7:15 PM on January 30, 2018

The Grauniad now has one of Dunmore's Inside the Wave poems... My life’s stem was cut
posted by Mister Bijou at 7:35 AM on January 31, 2018 [1 favorite]