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The Bridport Prize 2011Poetry Report - Carol Ann Duffy I hugely enjoyed reading the final list of poems for the Bridport Poetry Prize 2011
and was seriously impressed by the range and vitality of the poems, which I hope is
reflected in my selection of 14 terrific poems. The 'top three' poems could all - on
different days as I read and re-read them - have received first prize. "Endowments' always
entranced with its beautiful litany of images for ageing, its balance between elegy and love poem;
and yet managed to sign off, audaciously, with a last-line laugh. "Caesarean' has real poetic authority;
a physicality of language which indicates the presence of a genuine poet. 'Queen' would have
pleased the late Ted Hughes with its intensity of noticing, its scrupulous witnessing, and was
thrilling to read. All three winning poems display risk, originality and the sense that they were
necessary to write and I warmly congratulate their authors and also the other poets represented here.
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