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Top 10: the TS Eliot Prize shortlist
Each year, the T S Eliot Prize offers poets a chance to win a huge sack of cash, and critics a chance to generalise about trends in poetry. So here goes: long fragmentary narratives are in, love poems are out (though Natalie Diaz unfashionably flies the flag for sensual abandon). Who’ll win the £25,000 prize? If I were judging, it’d be Sasha Dugdale or Shane McCrae. But I’m not, so I’d bet on Diaz, with a side-flutter on Bhanu Kapil.
I’m sore about the omission of Timothy Donnelly’s superb The Problem of the Many, and wouldn’t have minded a bit of light relief (Caroline Bird, say, or Matthew Welton) but otherwise this is a strong and unusually ambitious list. Like last year, and the year before, and the year before that, half the nominees are university dons, but this year the books
The architecture of the US Capitol is a paean to rational order – the riots were a desecration
The Congress building is the temple-like embodiment of the ideals of America, making its invasion a symbolic affront
Supporters of President Donald Trump assault the Capitol building
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Standing serene on a plateau in Washington DC and commanding a stirring two-mile view along the National Mall to the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial, the US Capitol appears as impregnable and as unchanging as it is colossally imposing. Looks, of course, can be deceiving, and not only because of the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Wednesday.