Enthralling night, bumper crowd at prize readings
If it were up to the audience, Dannie Abse would have been named the runaway winner of the TS Eliot Prize, for the best collection of poetry published in 2013. The cheers and roars as the 90-year-old departed from the stage at the Royal Festival Hall after reading poems from Speak, Old Parrot were evidence of that. And the audience clapometer would have made young Helen Mort a honourable runner-u...
19th January 2014
Wit and wisdom of compere almost steals the show
His picture may not appear in the programme … but the warm and witty compering of Barnsley’s Ian McMillan was a key factor in the smooth success of the TS Eliot prize readings at the Royal Festival Hall.
The presenter of BBC Radio’s The Verb showed deep respect to each of the 10 poets reading, bu...
19th January 2014
