Sherry Chandler

The British press

The BBC gives us the winner of the Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009, a photo of a leaping Iberian wolf:

Jose Luis Rodriguez captured the imaginations of the judges with a picture that he had planned for years, and even sketched out on a piece of paper.

“I wanted to capture a photo in which you would see a wolf in an act of hunting – or predation – but without blood,” he told BBC News. “I didn’t want a cruel image.”

With a great deal of patience and careful observation of the wolves’ movements, he succeeded in taking the award-winning photograph

Me, I sort of like the winner of the Urban and Garden Wildlife category (scroll down), which involves a red fox and a calico cat in the Russian snow. After that popular photo that showed a cat treeing a bear, I suppose a fox is nothing but the photo has great colors and action.

All the category winners are worth a look.

the Guardian gives us the short list for the T.S. Eliot prize, 10 poets “who have dreamed and who have dared.”

He highlighted Sharon Olds’s One Secret Thing, which moves from meditations on war photographs to an exploration of ageing, as a collection that had moved the award-winning American poet to the next level. “She’s well known as a highly confessional writer, who writes very personally and intimately about her family situation,” he said. “But she seems to have pushed even further in this book.”

I found both of these links at The Poetry Hut Blog, a blog I suggest you look at often.