Chair of judges Jackie Kay called the list "compelling, lyrical, thought-provoking and engaging.
He usually comes up with the melodies first but he is always jotting down lyrical thoughts or ideas.
The result is a lyrical, thought-provoking, yet accessible work of art.
The song is reminiscent of Depeche Mode's 1984 song "Master and Servant" and contains lyrical thoughts of sadomasochism.
Lyrical and thought-provoking though these books may be, they don't begin to address the Wearings' plight.
The narrative is tranquil and lyrical, developing the thoughts and emotions of her heroine so calmly that it was almost a shock to realise that I had begun, on the first page, to see my familiar world through her eyes.
Mr. McCarthy's admirers cherish "All the Pretty Horses," the first volume in a trilogy that also includes "The Crossing" and "Cities of the Plain," for its manly, lyrical prose and its deep thoughts on the relations between man and nature, man and woman, and man and horse.
The novel's lyrical prose spins out Anne's thoughts and responses to the brutality she encounters.
And, as he sings one dark thought and feeling, his long, lyrical, at times surrealistic words chasing one another, you experience the ancient arts of the shaman one more time.
The great literary renaissance that followed was marked by T. Gwynn Jones's masterly use of the old strict metres to express modern thought and W.J. Gruffydd's lyrical use of the free metres to express his rebellion against society and his love for the countryside of his youth.
