The definitive edition of T. S. Eliot’s published prose, edited by Archie Burnett, is published today by Faber & Faber.
The Collected Prose presents those works that Eliot allowed to reach print in the order of their final revision or printing. READ
The Poetry Society of America and the T. S. Eliot Foundation are pleased to announce that Robyn Schiff is the winner of the 2024 Four Quartets Prize for her collection Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin Poets, 2023).
She was selected by judges Catherine Barnett, Eduardo C. READ
The T. S. Eliot International Summer School is convening at Merton College, Oxford from 6th to 14th July 2024. The Summer School brings together renowned scholars and students from around the world for a nine-day, immersive exploration of the life and work of T. READ
This year Jeanette Winterson will deliver the annual T. S. Eliot Lecture on 17th December at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
Journey of the Magi
Were we led all that way for Birth or Death?
Eliot’s poem, Journey of the Magi tells the story of the journey of the Wise Men to the Christ Child. READ
Join us on Saturday 16th September for a chartered boat tour to the Dry Salvages, a treacherous outcrop of rocks off the coast of Cape Ann, Massachusetts that were immortalized in the title of one of the poems in T. S. READ
The Poetry Society of America and the T. S. Eliot Foundation are pleased to announce that Courtney Faye Taylor is the winner of the 2023 Four Quartets Prize for her collection Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022).
She was selected by judges Terrance Hayes, Hoa Nguyen, and Geoffrey G. READ
As part of the celebrations commemorating the 400th anniversary of the settlement of Gloucester, Massachusetts, Dr Julia Daniel will give a lecture entitled ‘Water, Rock, Memory: T. S. Eliot’s Gloucester’ on Saturday 16th September 2023. T. S. Eliot treasured his childhood memories of the Gloucester seascape, where freedom and loss, human and nature, home and elsewhere mingled in tidal pools and wide waters coloured with nostalgia. READ
In the centenary year of the publication of ‘The Waste Land’, Sally Rooney will deliver the T. S. Eliot Lecture at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin on 23 October 2022.
The T. S. Eliot Lecture has been presented at the Abbey Theatre since 2016. READ
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece The Waste Land, the Eliot Estate has commissioned DoranBrowne Arts Imagineers to curate f r a g m e n t s, a six day festival featuring multiple diverse performances in 22 unique and extraordinarily intimate late-medieval churches, many just a short walk from each other across the City of London inspired by themes and images from the poem. READ
To mark the poem’s centenary, The Waste Land app has been released on iPhone as well as iPad for the first time. The award-winning app brings alive Eliot’s work via synchronised readings, interactive notes and a remarkable filmed performance by Fiona Shaw. READ
