The project, known as Thresholds, includes the poets Daljit Nagra, Don Paterson and Jo Shapcott.

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Previous winners include Don Paterson, Ted Hughes and Anne Carson.

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The Poetry House is part of the university's School of English whose staff include poets Don Paterson, Kathleen Jamie, Douglas Dunn, Robert Crawford and John Burnside, amongst them winners of the Whitbread Prize, the T.

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