Coda: “IS THIS A NOVEL?”

Abstract

In the fall of 2018 the British press went into a tizzy over the revelation that the committee for the Man Booker Prize was considering a book of narrative poetry, The Long Take by Scottish writer Robin Robertson. “This year’s best novel might just be a poem, according to the Booker judges, who have shortlisted one for the first time,” reported Tristram Saunders in ...