Robinson triumphs at T S Eliot Prize

Roger Robinson has won the £25,000 T S Eliot Prize for his "searing" poetry collection A Portable Paradise (Peepal Tree Press).  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-13 13:53:02 UTC ]

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