The award is named in recognition of the mythological phoenix, a bird that lived five centuries, died and was reborn from its own ashes. |
James Joyce, for one, used to quest exhaustively for every fresh word as if it were a phoenix feather. |
The phoenix was a mythical bird of ancient Egypt which reputedly burned every 500 years and rose rejuvenated from its ashes. |
He looked down and saw the phoenix talisman that he had found on the ocean floor. |
But his legacy remains and the 80s saw rock music rising like a phoenix from the ashes. |
Working with the RDA we can help Drake Street rise like a phoenix from the ashes. |