WINNER
2024
2024
2024 Winner
Peter Gizzi
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2024
Peter Gizzi
Fierce Elegy
Penguin Poetry
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Young Critic Eira Murphy reviews Peter Gizzi’s Fierce Elegy
Young Critic Eira Murphy reviews Peter Gizzi’s ‘Fierce Elegy’ (Penguin Poetry), which won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024. More at tseliot.com/prize
Eira took part in the Young Critics Scheme, a joint project from the T. S. Eliot Prize and The Poetry Society. Ten 18-25 year olds were asked to review the texts on this year’s T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist, following a series of online workshops. Find out more about The Poetry Society’s opportunities for young writers at poetrysociety.org.uk/young-poets
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Looking for your next read – or reread? This year, in conjunction with our partners at The Poetry Society, we asked a handful of Young Critics to dive into the T.S. Eliot Prize archives and explore winning collections from the Prize’s history. The first is Young Critic Shannon Clinton-Copeland‘s review...
Michael Sims, Director of the T. S. Eliot Prize, has reminded me that I have been writing about the shortlisted books since 2015 – that’s 120 collections! Now that this archive is accessible on the website (with all of the 2015 reviews newly added this month), he has twisted my...
The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the judges for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2026. Leontia Flynn (Chair) will be joined on the panel by fellow poets Ishion Hutchinson and Daisy Lafarge. Leontia Flynn said: It’s an honour to chair this year’s T. S. Eliot Prize, alongside...
The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 is Karen Solie for Wellwater, published by Picador Poetry. Chair Michael Hofmann said: In Karen Solie we have an outstanding winner. The poems of Wellwater come from the whole of an adventurously...
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We’re finding it hard to wait until January for the T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings at the Southbank’s Royal Festival Hall… so we thought we’d relive some of the previous events by asking those involved about their experiences. Ian McMillan has been Master of Ceremonies at the Readings since...
We’re finding it hard to wait until January for the T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings at the Southbank’s Royal Festival Hall… so we thought we’d relive some of the previous events by asking those involved about their experiences. Ted Hodgkinson is Head of Literature and Spoken Word at the...
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We’re finding it hard to wait until January for the T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings at the Southbank’s Royal Festival Hall… so we thought we’d relive some of the previous events by asking those who have taken part about their experiences. Daljit Nagra has been shortlisted twice for the...
Over the past few years, you might have spotted a new kind of video appearing on the T. S. Eliot Prize YouTube channel and social media feeds. Appearing in December, these videos offer new perspectives on the ten titles shortlisted for that year’s T. S. Eliot Prize, voiced passionately and...
We’ve recently refreshed the T. S. Eliot Prize website, which now offers a fuller picture of all the shortlisted poets and books from across the Prize’s history. To add a new dimension to this living archive, we thought we’d highlight the incredible video and audio recordings we’ve gathered over the...
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Book now to see Eliot winners Karen Solie and Don Paterson at Cheltenham Literature Festival Tickets are now on sale for an extra special T. S. Eliot Prize event at The Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival (9–18 October). Karen Solie, winner of the 2025 Prize for Wellwater, will...
This year, in conjunction with our partners at The Poetry Society, we asked a handful of Young Critics to dive into the T.S. Eliot Prize archives and explore winning collections from the Prize’s history. Our aim is to reintroduce you to a classic on the Eliot Prize bookshelf. Our latest...
The Poetry Society and the T. S. Eliot Prize are delighted to open applications for a fifth year of the Young Critics Scheme. This prestigious partnership programme offers ten emerging poetry reviewers aged 18–25 in the UK and Ireland the opportunity to develop their practice. The successful applicants will attend workshops on...
We are delighted to announce that the T. S. Eliot Prize 2026 opens for submissions at 9am BST on Monday 1 June. This year’s panel of judges – Leontia Flynn (Chair), Ishion Hutchinson and Daisy Lafarge – look forward to receiving the entries. Please ensure you read the Rules &...
