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Last autumn Andrew Motion published an article titled Top 10 tips on being a successful poet - and this week I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to tidy up (i.e. cull) my file of "Oh - this is good - I might want to refer to this some time" and found it again. And you know, the article is good, and though I don't remember particularly noticing number 4 the first time round, it's the one that speaks specially to me just now -
Honour the miraculousness of the ordinary. What we very badly need to remember is that the things right under our noses are extraordinary, fascinating, irreplaceable, profound and just kind of marvellous.
Look at the things in the foreground and relish stuff that can lose its glow by being familiar. In fact, re-estranging ourselves to familiar things seems to be a very important part of what poetry can do.
I would change the words "poet" and "poetry" to "writer" and "writing". And then I would say, "Yes."
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Andrew Solomon has won the 2014 Wellcome Book Prize and £30,000 in prize money for his nonfiction work, Far from the Tree. The award organizers strive to honor both fiction and nonfiction books that focus on medicine and health.
Solomon worked on writing this book for ten years. In the past, he discussed his research in a popular TED talk called “Love, No Matter What.”
Sir Andrew Motion, chair of the judging panel, revealed in a statement that the judges unanimously selected Solomon’s book as the winner from a pool of six titles. The five other books that made it onto the short list includes The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert, Wounded by Emily Mayhew, Creation by Adam Rutherford, Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks, and Inconvenient People by Sarah Wise. (Photo Credit: Annie Leibovitz)
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