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2024
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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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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 &...
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...
The T.S. Eliot Prize and The Poetry Society are delighted to publish the video reviews created by participants in this year’s Young Critics Scheme. Michael Sims, Director of the T. S. Eliot Prize welcomed ‘another brilliant year for the Young Critics Scheme’. He said, ‘The 2025 cohort’s video reviews of...
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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...
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. Yomi Ṣode was shortlisted for the T. S....
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 took part about their experiences. Jane Clarke was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize...
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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How do poets feel about being shortlisted for and in some cases winning the T. S. Eliot Prize? What impact does it have on their writing and their careers? Find out in the exciting new series of podcasts Nick Makoha has curated for WritersMosaic, the Royal Literary Fund’s innovative online...
T. S. Eliot Prize 2025: the Chair of judges’ speech, by Michael Hofmann ‘Good evening, happy Martin Luther King Day. I call to mind the Auden statement, probably mis-reported or mis-remembered, that: ‘Poetry makes nothing happen’, and I think: well, at least there’s that. Do no harm. Hippocrates, not hypocrisy....
Please do join us at the Royal Festival Hall as our brilliant shortlisted poets take to the stage at 7pm on Sunday 18 January. Enjoy an event simultaneously epic and intimate as we celebrate the best contemporary poetry. Hosted by the genial Ian McMillan, the evening is always a highlight...
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...
