Alice Oswald wins Poetry Society’s Corneliu M Popescu Prize
Alice Oswald's MEMORIAL has won the 2013 Corneliu M Popescu Prize for poetry in translation. Organised by the Poetry Society, the Prize is given biennially to a collection of poetry translated into English from another European language. MEMORIAL was chosen from a selection of 79 submitted books, representing 26 languages.
Judges Karen Leeder and David Wheatley said “Oswald has turned Homer into a
contemporary war poet, taking an audacious concept – the trimming down of the Iliad to
its death scenes – and imbuing the results with compelling formal necessity. Memorial
answers to its Greek original yet stands as an autonomous and deeply moving work of art.
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12/09/2013 - 10:38
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