The real thing
Oct. 4th, 2007 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceSean O'Brien has won the Forward Prize. Again, again.
To put this into context, the Forward Prize is the UK's premier award for a collection of poetry, it's a recognition of sustained and outstanding work, and Sean has now won it three times. Which is not only unsurpassed, it's unequalled.
And this guy is a friend of mine, y'know? I was getting drunk with him last week; on Saturday, I'm cooking curry for him and his partner. Sometimes I still find myself just a little bit awed by the people I mix with. I've always been vulnerable to that name-dropping gene (have I told you about the time I met Tolkien? I have? Oh, damn. Sorry...), but the hitherto-unconfessed secret is that I do it to myself too, sotto voce. I don't need other people to brag to; I can impress myself, by the roster of my own friends. How sad is that?
To put this into context, the Forward Prize is the UK's premier award for a collection of poetry, it's a recognition of sustained and outstanding work, and Sean has now won it three times. Which is not only unsurpassed, it's unequalled.
And this guy is a friend of mine, y'know? I was getting drunk with him last week; on Saturday, I'm cooking curry for him and his partner. Sometimes I still find myself just a little bit awed by the people I mix with. I've always been vulnerable to that name-dropping gene (have I told you about the time I met Tolkien? I have? Oh, damn. Sorry...), but the hitherto-unconfessed secret is that I do it to myself too, sotto voce. I don't need other people to brag to; I can impress myself, by the roster of my own friends. How sad is that?
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Date: 2007-10-04 12:37 pm (UTC):)
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Date: 2007-10-04 04:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-04 07:31 pm (UTC)Okay, apropos of another post, where does that (almost) come from?
Congrats to Sean, by the way. I saw the announcement on the BBC website.
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Date: 2007-10-06 05:14 pm (UTC)