Poet Jo Shapcott was declared the winner of the 2011 Costa Book Award on the 25th of January with her collection Of Mutability.
Of Mutability faced stiff competion from favourite The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell, but managed to scoop the grand title of Book of the Year, becoming the seventh collection of poems to win the award since its creation in 1985. Hailed as a 'paen of creativity' by the judging panel, Of Mutability was the first new collection Shapcott had published in over ten years.
Of Mutability faced stiff competion from favourite The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell, but managed to scoop the grand title of Book of the Year, becoming the seventh collection of poems to win the award since its creation in 1985. Hailed as a 'paen of creativity' by the judging panel, Of Mutability was the first new collection Shapcott had published in over ten years.
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