Without wanting to
trivialise the disgraceful treatment that Sarah Howe has received at the hands
of certain sections of the media on the back of having won the T.S. Eliot Prize with her first collection, Loop of Jade, it’s worth pointing out that such articles end up providing terrific publicity,
generating extra readers for her intriguing book and creating the opposite effect to what
seems to have been intended by their authors. Poetic justice, in fact.
DISPLACED They called her aloof, impractical, clumsy, plain. It was, they
say, difficult for her not to fall in love.In spite, that is, of the first
coughs...
Dear Matthew
ReplyDeleteI predicted on Matt Merritt's blog that if Don Paterson didn't win the T.S. Eliot prize then Sarah Howe would. I've subsequently missed her undeserved drubbing in the media and clearly need to get up to speed with what's been said.
Best wishes from Simon R. Gladdish