The poem will not be performed at the ceremony
either
Poet CJ Allen has withdrawn from the
Forward Prize shortlist after admitting to plagiarism in some of his earlier
work.
His poem Explaining the Plot of Blade Runner to My Mother Who Has Alzheimer's
was up for best single poem. The awards take place on 1 October in London.
Fellow poet Matthew Welton said he noticed last year that Allen had
plagiarised some of his work.
Allen said he accepted he had plagiarised "certain poems".
In an email to the Forward Arts Foundation, Allen wrote: "I accept that I did
plagiarise certain poems (although it was genuinely not my intention to
deceive), and that I am withdrawing from the competition because of the
intolerable strain of the recent, negative publicity surrounding this.
"However, I continue to maintain that the poem submitted to the Forward
Prizes is original."
Writing on his blog
earlier this month, Welton said he first noticed Allen had plagiarised his work
in May 2012, a few days after seeing him give a reading in Nottingham.
He subsequently bought a couple of Allen's books but when looking through At
The Oblivion Tea Rooms, he "noticed that a number of the poems were in fact
versions of my own poems with a few changes made".
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