{"id":633,"date":"2014-10-02T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/?p=633"},"modified":"2024-04-03T15:17:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T14:17:15","slug":"kei-miller-wins-the-prestigious-forward-poetry-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/kei-miller-wins-the-prestigious-forward-poetry-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Kei Miller wins the prestigious <i>Forward<\/i> poetry prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_638\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-638\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Kei-Miller-square-460x460.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-638\" src=\"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Kei-Miller-square-460x460-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kei Miller\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Kei-Miller-square-460x460-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Kei-Miller-square-460x460-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Kei-Miller-square-460x460.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kei Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Jamaican poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forwardartsfoundation.org\/poet\/kei-miller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kei Miller<\/a>, a former winner of the <a title=\"Bridget Jones Award for Caribbean Studies\" href=\"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/bursaries-and-prizes\/bridget-jones-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bridget Jones Award for Caribbean Studies<\/a>, has won the prestigious Forward prize for the best poetry collection of 2014 for his \u201cstandout\u201d book based on dialogue between a mapmaker striving to impose order on an unfamiliar land and a \u201cRasta-man\u201d who queries his project.<\/p>\n<p>Read a report in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/sep\/30\/kei-miller-wins-forward-poetry-prize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jamaican poet Kei Miller, a former winner of the Bridget Jones Award for Caribbean Studies, has won the prestigious<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/kei-miller-wins-the-prestigious-forward-poetry-prize\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kei Miller wins the prestigious <i>Forward<\/i> poetry prize<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2554,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}