TS Eliot prize row: is winner too young, beautiful - and Chinese?

Poet Sarah Howe’s 2016 TS Eliot prize win has been questioned by a sexist and sceptical literary press, but as the activity around the #derangedpoetess hashtag shows, we poets have had enough

The boys appear not to be happy.

When the UK’s top prize for poetry, the TS Eliot Prize, was awarded to first-time poet Sarah Howe for her book Loop of Jade (Chatto) earlier this month, a whoop of joy went up in the room. Later at the party, I heard someone say: “I wonder how long it will be before everyone begins to hate her.” Not long, as it happens.

How did Sarah Howe win TS Eliot prize, asks Private Eye pic.twitter.com/z35dsreRMj

Here it is pic.twitter.com/WtZpfA2FRz

This gentle interview with a leading young poet has led various deranged poetesses to call me thick, sexist etc... https://t.co/AN5F2TDbzM

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