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At university and in my early twenties I attended poetry classes, where I was taught by Jo Shapcott and then Michael Donaghy.
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"It's great when poetry gets some attention – which happens periodically," Shapcott says.
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"I certainly know that Faber were on the phone to the printer the very night of the Costa win," Shapcott says.
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Judith Palmer, director of the Poetry Society, said Ms. Duffy had “paved the way for a whole generation of women poets who came after her,” including Deryn Rees-Jones, Jo Shapcott and Alice Oswald.
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Shapcott, surprised to emerge as the winner of the Costa, accepted the award on behalf of poetry; I can't imagine a fiction writer accepting the Booker on behalf of fiction.
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Four poets, including RF Langley, who died earlier this year, have been nominated for the best single poem: Langley for To a Nightingale; Alan Jenkins for Southern Rail The Four Students; and Sharon Olds for Song the Breasts Sing to the Late-in-Life Boyfriend: and Jo Shapcott, shortlisted for the best collection last year, for I Tell the Bees.
Forward shortlist includes Geoffrey Hill, Sean O'Brien and David Harsent 2011
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One of those tutors was the poet Brendan Kennelly; after Trinity, Shapcott went to Harvard on a Harkness fellowship and studied under Seamus Heaney.
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Although Shapcott excelled in her earlier incarnation, picking up the Forward prize in 1999 for her third collection, My Life Asleep, and becoming the only poet to win the National Poetry Competition twice, there's a hard-won maturity to her latest poems, coupled with a new and deep attentiveness, that lifts them above anything she has so far written.
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Shapcott is now studying for an OU degree in the subject.
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Even the poems themselves can feel like bubbles – formal, delicate, trembling with immediacy – and it seems that Shapcott craves the clarity or guilelessness these metaphors permit: "I breathe in and become everything I see".
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott Frances Leviston 2010
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