Stallworthy wins Wilfred Owen poetry prize

The Bookseller - 09.11.10 - Charlotte Williams

Professor Jon Stallworthy has won The Wilfred Owen Association Poetry Award 2010, rewarding his body of work. The prize is presented biennally to a poet whose work, including war poetry, has been sustained over a long period. Previous winners include Seamus Heaney and Harold Pinter.

Peter Owen, Wilfred Owen's nephew and president of the Wilfred Owen Association, said: "He has written war poetry and translated it, and also written books on it. His poetry has long been recognised as good war poetry. He is also a trustee of the Wilfred Owen estate, and over the years he has been extremely kind, as well as very sincere and understanding of Wilfred's position in the pantheon of war poets."

Stallworthy's collected poems, Rounding the Horn, is published by Carcanet. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Oxford. The prize, a specially created award in the shape of a gun barrel, will be presented at a ceremony on 13th November at Wolfson College, Oxford.