The T. S. Eliot Prize, which former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion has described as “the Prize poets most want to win”, is an annual prize for the best new poetry collection published in the UK or Ireland.
T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2024: MIMI KHALVATI TO CHAIR THE JUDGING PANEL
The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the judges for the 2024 T. S. Eliot Prize for poetry. Mimi Khalvati will chair, and will be joined on the panel by Anthony Joseph and…
SHORTLISTED POET IN FOCUS: RACHEL MANN
I hope that [Eleanor Among the Saints] will enable anyone to discover, no matter what they think about gender or sexuality, to discover at the edge of words, the edge of what’s sayable, the edge…
SHORTLISTED POET IN FOCUS: GUSTAV PARKER HIBBETT
[T]he poems plug elements of autobiography into the mainframe of different mythic structures […] But none of the archetypes Hibbett draws on, from ancient Greek heroes and Shakespearean monsters to modern cinema and music, feel…
SHORTLISTED POET IN FOCUS: PETER GIZZI
I say “fierce elegy” because for me the elegy is a fierce mode that can take a broken heart in a fierce world and transform it into a fierce heart in a broken world. –…
SHORTLISTED POET IN FOCUS: HELEN FARISH
Helen Farish, shortlisted with her collection The Penny Dropping (Bloodaxe Books, 2024), is the featured poet in this week’s Eliot Prize e-newsletter. The newsletter tells you about the wide range of content we have just…