Jo Shapcott
London based author Jo Shapcott has been announced as the winner of the 2010 Costa Book of the Year for Poetry collection ‘Of Mutability’.
The Costa Book Awards have the single aim of celebrating the most enjoyable books of the year by writers based in the UK and Ireland.
Jo Shapcott , beat Maggie O’Farrell for her novel The Hand That First Held Mine, debut writer Kishwar Desai for Witness the Night, Edmund de Waal for his bestselling memoir The Hare With Amber Eyes, and first-time children’s author Jason Wallace for Out of Shadows, to win the overall prize and a cheque for £30,000.
The overall winner was announced at an awards ceremony in central London.
The winning author was decided by a judging panel including actors David Morrissey and Elizabeth McGovern, broadcasters Natasha Kaplinsky and Anneka Rice, poet Ruth Padel, and authors Adele Parks, Tim Bowler and Juliet Nicolson.
The panel was chaired by publisher and broadcaster Andrew Neil.