About Me
- Name: John Stammers
John Stammers' first collection, Panoramic Lounge-bar (Picador, 2001), won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2001, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award 2001. His second collection, Stolen Love Behaviour (Picador, 2005), was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2005, and the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2005, and was Poetry Book Society Choice for Spring 2005.In 2002 he was the Judith E Wilson Fellow at the University of Cambridge. What they have said about his work: Time Out 'Fantastic!.' The Times 'Beneath the sharp social satire lurks a psychological insight, a sensitivity to a profound cultural inheritance.' Poetry Book Society 'Like Walt Whitman, he aims to be 'large ... contain multitudes': his poems are packed, straining to break the bounds of the moment and the form of the poem.' Clive James 'a frame of reference ranging from the scabrous to the desolately chic, as if Tristan Corbière were trying to get over an affair with Angelina Jolie.' Cressida Connolly '[His] talent is unignorable.'
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