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Kaite O’Reilly from Llanarth was awarded the 2010 Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry at The Savile Club in London on 24 March 2011.

She scooped the award for her new version of Aeschylus‘ tragedy The Persians, staged at a military base in the Brecon Beacons last year.

Part of her £5,000 prize will be donated to the Japanese relief fund. / BBC News

The organizers of a new literary prize announced on Thursday they will award $50,000 to a single poem.

Describing it as “the biggest poetry competition in history,” organizers of the Montreal Poetry Prize said the initiative “represents a major contribution to the global cultural scene.” / National Post (Kanada)