Kathleen Jamie's poetry collection The Overhaul and children's book Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner completed the shortlist.

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Next month a collection of prose writing At the Source is published, and later this year another poetry collection, A Recipe for Water, will follow.

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Kwame Dawes, author of "Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius" and the coming poetry collection "Duppy Conquerer, " says Mr. Broadus is part of a long line of non-Jamaican musicians who have dipped into the reggae genre.

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His first collection of poetry, Seventeen Poems, was published when he was 23.

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Paulin, who won the Somerset Maugham prize in 1977 for his first collection of poetry, A State of Justice.

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Some of them seem to be about business management, but one is about calculus, and there are others about art and history, and one narrow volume looks like a collection of poetry.

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The Whitbread Book of the Year award was established in 1985 and has been won seven times by a novel, three times by a first novel, four times by a biography, five times by a collection of poetry and once by a children's book.

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Literary works of poetry and prose in Arabic, Persian and Uzbek are also predominant in the collection.

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Larkin found fame in 1955 after publishing his collection The Less Deceived and went on to become one of the foremost figures in 20th Century poetry.

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