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UK POETS AND POETRY

How familiar are you with contemporary UK poets and poetry? Take the enCompass quiz and find out... (and if you need some help, you'll find all the answers by looking through the 'Poetry' compass).

 

 Question 1.
A nice easy one to get you going. Who published a collection of 88 poetic 'letters', written over a 25 year period, all to his former wife? Oh, did I mention the wife was Sylvia Plath?

Billy Collins

Ted Hughes

Ted Heath

Seamus Heaney

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 Question 2.
Which young Belfast poet recently won the prestigious 2004 Forward Prize for her first collection, These Days?

Leontia Flynn

Colette Bryce

Rita Ann Higgins

Anne Stevenson

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 Question 3.
What was the title of Paul Farley's second collection, which won the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2003?

The New Age

The Iron Age

The Space Age

The Ice Age

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 Question 4.
Which poet, born in London to Nigerian parents, wrote the collections RAW and Transformatrix, and spent time as a poet in residence in a tattoo parlour?

Dorothea Smartt

Malika Booker

Patience Agbabi

Jackie Kay

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 Question 5.
In 1999 Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney published a new translation of an Anglo-Saxon masterpiece, which surprised a lot of people by going on to win the Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. What was it?

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Beowulf

The Laedaela Saga

The Vision of Piers Plowman

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 Question 6.
Which poet, born in Australia in 1929 but long since resident in the UK, won the 2002 Forward Prize with his collection Max is Missing?

Sean O'Brien

W.N. Herbert

John Tranter

Peter Porter

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 Question 7.
And which poet has perfected the notoriously difficult form of the 'novel-in-verse' with her books The Emperor's Babe and Lara?

Bernadine Evaristo

Patience Agbabi

U.A. Fanthorpe

Jean 'Binta' Breeze

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 Question 8.
What was the title of Carol Ann Duffy's popular 1999 collection, which looked at the exploits of famous men throughout history - but from the perspective of their lesser-known wives?

Behind Every Good Man...

The Woman Within

'Er Indoors

The World's Wife

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 Question 9.
Which Scottish poet, who also works as a poetry editor, won the 2003 T.S. Eliot Prize with his eagely-anticipated collection Landing Light?

Don Paterson

John Burnside

W.N. Herbert

Roddy Lumsden

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 Question 10.
Clare Pollard wrote most of her first collection, published by Bloodaxe in 1998, while she was still at school. What was it called?

The Over-Amorous Safari

The Heavy-Petting Zoo

The Too-Keen Menagerie

The Excitable Pet Shop

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