Surprise winner for poetry prize

The Independent said Jen Hadfield had a "refreshing voice"

Jen Hadfield has unexpectedly won the 2008 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry with her second anthology Nigh-No-Place.

The 30-year-old, who has lived in Scotland and Canada, was called "a remarkably original poet" by judges' chairman Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate.

She was presented with a cheque for