Blogdown on the Booker

This being a sordidly sunny Bank Holiday weekend for the first time in - erm, living memory? - I have decided to eschew my usual intellectual-muscle-flexing approach of formulating my own opinions and rely on those of other bloggers to entertain my regulars. Unfortunately, as we're all only too aware, there is a dearth of really strong sharp poetry bloggers in the UK, so prose fiction it must be. And what better to dwell on at the moment in prose fiction than the Booker Prize list, announced earlier this month?

If you can recommend any sharp British poetry bloggers, by the way - whose names do not already appear in my blogroll - then please comment below.

In return, you will win ... well, I can't afford to offer you sweeties, as Ms Baroque does in her plush Hackney pad, but you will gain my respect and appreciation. Worth so much more than a paper bag of barley twists and pear drops, let me assure you.

Randomly Chosen Bloggers on the Booker

This is writer Susan Hill's blog entry last week about the Booker.

Grumpy old Bookman has a few choice words to say on the recent matter of the Booker, at GOB

Dove Grey Reader opens with this: 'Aha, here it is, this is bound to be it...the Booker Turkey ...' and then 'So I started The Gathering by Anne Enright thinking I was going to hate it, no, why mess about, I was going to absolutely loath it.'

You can find the rest of that amusing review and a whole assortment of others in the same idiom (known collectively as the Bookerthon 2007) at Dove Grey Reader

Lastly, Eve's Alexandria supplies this highly informative and attractively presented Booker blog entry.

Enjoy!