Whale Day by Billie Collins Evelyn Schlag The judges were impressed by

The judges were impressed by the unusual degree of formal pressure exerted by Szirtes on his themes of memory and the impossibility of forgetting

filmed in the 1970s and turned into a cartoon in 2003

After a year’s work tracking them down

stalwart / captured on daguerrotype

which together constitute the core of Crase's poetic work

Whale Day by Billie Collins Evelyn Schlag The judges were impressed by'Funny but serious, accessible but rich in meaning, consistently surprising the world looks slightly different after reading a Billy Collins poem. He's a one off, an American treasure' Nick Laird These are poems of whimsy and imaginative acrobatics, but they are grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the proper way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and