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4 unusual facts about Poetry Book Society


Arc publications

Poetry Book Society Recommended Translations in 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012, plus a special commendation.

Deryn Rees-Jones

She has published three poetry books with Seren, The Memory Tray (1994), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; Signs Round a Dead Body (1998), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation; and Quiver: A Murder Mystery (2004).

Jacob Polley

His first book, The Brink (Picador 2003), was a Poetry Book Society Choice, and went on to be shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys prize.

Tim Liardet

His third collection, Competing with the Piano Tuner, was a Poetry Book Society special commendation and long-listed for the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 1998; his fourth, To the God of Rain, a Poetry Book Society recommendation for Spring 2003.


For Anatole's Tomb

A new translation by Patrick McGuinness, with the title For Anatole's Tomb, was published in 2003, and was selected as the year's Translation Choice by the Poetry Book Society.


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