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Jo Shapcott FRSL (born 24 March 1953, London) is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Award.
Jo Shapcott is a British poet who has won several awards and translated Rilke. She writes poems from unusual perspectives and sources, and collaborates with musicians and composers.
Feb 1, 2011 · As she celebrates winning the Costa prize for her latest poetry collection, ‘On Mutability’, Jo Shapcott recalls the cancer that shaped her work and transformed her life completely.
Jo Shapcott is a London-born poet who explores the body, the mind and the world with surrealism, eroticism and quantum physics. She has won several awards, including the Costa Book Award and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
Learn about the life and work of Jo Shapcott, a British poet who won the Costa Prize in 2010 and collaborated with musicians and translators. Explore her themes, styles and influences, from surrealism to Rilke.
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About. Jo Shapcott won the Forward Prize for her collection, My Life Asleep, in 1999. For two years from 1998 she was Northern Arts Literary Fellow at the universities of Newcastle and Durham and was the first Visiting Professor of Poetry at Newcastle, giving the inaugural Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures in 2001.
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Jul 16, 2010 · Jo Shapcott's new collection – her first in 12 years, barring the Rilke translations of Tender Taxes – meets the term and its history head-on, even going so far as to call...
