{"id":6500,"date":"2024-12-19T14:19:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T14:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?p=6500"},"modified":"2025-05-08T16:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:14:15","slug":"shortlisted-poet-in-focus-karen-mccarthy-woolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/shortlisted-poet-in-focus-karen-mccarthy-woolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortlisted Poet in Focus: Karen McCarthy Woolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6501\" style=\"width: 1001px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6501 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Woolf-Karen-McCarthy-photo-600x1200-\u00a9-Yasmine-Akim-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1001\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Woolf-Karen-McCarthy-photo-600x1200-\u00a9-Yasmine-Akim-1.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Woolf-Karen-McCarthy-photo-600x1200-\u00a9-Yasmine-Akim-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Woolf-Karen-McCarthy-photo-600x1200-\u00a9-Yasmine-Akim-1-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen McCarthy Woolf. Photo \u00a9 Yasmine Akim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p><em>McCarthy Woolf has [&#8230;] breathed new life into this well-worn trope (<\/em>Mannequin<em>, <\/em>Toy Story<em>\u2026 erm <\/em>Chucky<em>), adding poignancy to the book\u2019s \u201cstranger than fiction\u201d tale of a heiress who preferred dolls to people.\u2019 \u2013 Yvonne Singh<\/em>, Writers Mosaic<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Karen McCarthy Woolf, shortlisted for <em>Top Doll<\/em> (Dialogue Books, 2024), is the featured poet in this week\u2019s Eliot Prize e-newsletter. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The newsletter tells you about the wide range of content we have just published to help you get to know Karen and her work. This includes <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2024\/videos\/#karen-mccarthy-woolf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our specially produced videos<\/a> of her reading from <em>Top Doll<\/em><i>\u00a0<\/i>and talking about the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Woolf-Readers-Notes-2024-WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download the Reader\u2019s Notes on <i>Top Doll<\/i><\/a>, which include a selection of the poems, plus reviews, reading suggestions, and a writing prompt or two for those inspired to respond creatively. The aim of the Readers\u2019 Notes is to inspire deeper readings of the book, individually or shared with friends, book groups or writing workshops.<\/p>\n<p>We have published <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2024\/reviews\/#karen-mccarthy-woolf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new review, commissioned from John Field<\/a>, exploring the humour and dark histories within the book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To be the first to read Eliot Prize news, <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/subscribe-to-the-t-s-eliot-prize-newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">simply sign up to weekly e-newsletter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCarthy Woolf has [&#8230;] breathed new life into this well-worn trope (Mannequin, Toy Story\u2026 erm Chucky), adding poignancy to the book\u2019s \u201cstranger than fiction\u201d tale of a heiress who preferred dolls to people.\u2019 \u2013 Yvonne Singh, Writers Mosaic Karen McCarthy Woolf, shortlisted for Top Doll (Dialogue Books, 2024), is the featured poet in this week\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[63,64],"class_list":["post-6500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-63","tag-woolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6657,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500\/revisions\/6657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}