Jo Shapcott
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- Jo Shaopcott (1953- Present Day)
- Born in london
- 3 award-winning collections
- Electroplating the baby 1988
- My life asleep 1998
- Phrase Book 1992
- won a number of literary prizes
- commonwealth writers prize for first collection
- forward prize for best collection
- the national poetry competition twice
- 2011 was awarded the queens golden medal for poetry
- tender taxes her version of rilke was published 2001
- most resent collection 'Mutability' was published 2010 and won the costa book award
- her poems follow the theme of the fragility of the human body
- 2002 she was appointed as CBE but due to her battle with cancer she had to refuse the honor
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