My Reef My Manifest Array by John Wilkinson Michele Hutchison Winner of the Ted Hughes

Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry

through every historic-organic pattern

but with a kind of austerity

He is the author of two pamphlets

Who gets to decide the canon

My Reef My Manifest Array by John Wilkinson Michele Hutchison Winner of the Ted HughesIn 1487 Sir Henry Bodrugan, pursued for treason, leapt from a Cornish clifftop into a waiting boat and fled to France. Bodrugan's Leap, as the clifftop has come to be known, lies close to John Wilkinson's childhood home, and supplies the title for the central cycle of poems in My Reef My Manifest Array. That totemic image of exile feeds an interest in borders and partings that runs throughout the collection. The Cornish landscape of the poet's