This feels like a very minor aside, given the terrible news of Gboyega Odubanjo’s death, but Paterson is completely wrong about the T. S. Eliot Prize. It’s an award for one book, not an award for a career. Just the very simple fact that you can win it more than once (as Paterson himself has, in 1997 and 2003) contradicts his claim!
This feels like a very minor aside, given the terrible news of Gboyega Odubanjo’s death, but Paterson is completely wrong about the T. S. Eliot Prize. It’s an award for one book, not an award for a career. Just the very simple fact that you can win it more than once (as Paterson himself has, in 1997 and 2003) contradicts his claim!
Such sad news, indeed. What a loss.