[New-Poetry] O'Brien wins unique hat-trick of Forward prizes

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Poet Sean O'Brien wins unique hat-trick of Forward prizes

John Ezard
Thursday October 4, 2007
The Guardian 


Sean O'Brien pulled off a unique hat-trick last night by winning the chief Forward poetry award for the third time for a book of poems described by the judges as "witty and heart-wrenching".

He took the £10,000 best collection prize for The Drowned Book, a volume which immerses itself in "the puddles, drains and culverts of a baleful industrial-northern landscape". The judges said the hat-trick confirmed O'Brien, 55, as one of the leading poets of his generation. They quoted a comment in the Guardian calling him "a formidable wordsmith at the very height of his powers".


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