Prize Poems
Donald Davie
- Arvon Foundation Poetry Competion: 1980 Anthology by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney
Kilnhurst Publishing Company, 173 pp, £3.00, April 1982, ISBN 0 9508078 0 X - Burn this by Tom Disch
Hutchinson, 63 pp, £7.50, April 1982, ISBN 0 00 914696 2
The Arvon Foundation’s 1980 Anthology contains four splendid poems: Stephen Watts’s ‘Praise Poem for North Uist’, and Keith Bosley’s ‘Corolla’; Aidan Carl Mathews’s ‘Severances’, and John Levett’s ‘The Photographs of Paris’. The first two are longish, the others shorter. The only one that won a prize – and that the smallest, £100 – is ‘Corolla’, a sequence of nine exactly rhymed and metred sonnets, culminating in a stunning version of the Ronsard sonnet that defeated Yeats:
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Vol. 4 No. 12 · 1 July 1982 » Donald Davie » Prize Poems
pages 16-17 | 1703 words