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'''Costa Poetry Award'''
 
'''Costa Poetry Award'''
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We don't review poetry, but here's a list of the runners and riders:
  
 
'''Winner'''
 
'''Winner'''
  
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'''The Bees'' by Carol Ann Duffy
|author=Carol Ann Duffy
 
|title=The Bees
 
|rating=Unreviewed
 
|summary=Unfortunately we don't have a review of this book.  The judges said ''These tender, fluent, surprising poems feel at once contemporary and alive
 
with the history of poetry.''
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330442449</amazonuk>
 
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'''The rest of the shortlist'''
 
'''The rest of the shortlist'''
  
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''Night'' by David Harsent
|author=David Harsent
 
|title=Night
 
|rating=Unreviewed
 
|summary=Unfortunately we don't have a review of this book. The judges said ''Harsent’s long luxuriant lines are lit by jewel-like images. Formally ambitious,
 
complex and mysterious.''
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571255639</amazonuk>
 
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''Fiere'' by Jackie Kay
|author=Jackie Kay
 
|title=Fiere
 
|rating=Unreviewed
 
|summary=Unfortunately we don't have a review of this book. The judges said ''These poems are open-armed and generous, warmly emotional without being sentimental. They welcome you in.''
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330513370</amazonuk>
 
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''November'' by Sean O'Brien
|author=Sean O'Brien
 
|title=November
 
|rating=Unreviewed
 
|summary=Unfortunately we don't have a review of this book. The judges said ''The mythic combines with the modern in incantatory poems that thrum with verbal and intellectual energy.''
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330535005</amazonuk>
 
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'''Costa Biography Award'''
 
'''Costa Biography Award'''

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Costa Novel Award

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Costa Poetry Award

We don't review poetry, but here's a list of the runners and riders:

Winner

'The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy

The rest of the shortlist

Night by David Harsent

Fiere by Jackie Kay

November by Sean O'Brien

Costa Biography Award

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Costa Children's Book Award

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