{"id":7232,"date":"2017-10-19T11:01:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T11:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/?p=7232"},"modified":"2017-10-19T11:05:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T11:05:18","slug":"shortlist-announced-2017-t-s-eliot-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/shortlist-announced-2017-t-s-eliot-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortlist Announced 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
To mark the 25th\u00a0anniversary of the T. S. Eliot Prize, the T. S. Eliot Foundation has increased the winner\u2019s prize money to \u00a325,000. Judges Bill Herbert (Chair), James Lasdun and Helen Mort have chosen the shortlist from a record 154 poetry collections submitted by publishers:<\/section>\n
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Tara Bergin \u2013\u00a0The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx<\/em>\u00a0(Carcanet)<\/p>\n

Caroline Bird \u2013\u00a0In these Days of Prohibition<\/em>\u00a0(Carcanet)<\/p>\n

Douglas Dunn \u2013\u00a0The Noise of a Fly (<\/em>Faber & Faber)<\/p>\n

Leontia Flynn \u2013\u00a0The Radio\u00a0<\/em>(Cape Poetry)<\/p>\n

Roddy Lumsden \u2013\u00a0So Glad I\u2019m Me<\/em>\u00a0(Bloodaxe)<\/p>\n

Michael Symmons Roberts \u2013\u00a0Mancunia<\/em>\u00a0(Cape Poetry)<\/p>\n

Robert Minhinnick \u2013\u00a0Diary of the Last Man<\/em>\u00a0(Carcanet)<\/p>\n

James Sheard \u2013\u00a0The Abandoned Settlements<\/em>\u00a0(Cape Poetry)<\/p>\n

Jacqueline Saphra \u2013\u00a0All My Mad Mothers<\/em>\u00a0(Nine Arches Press)<\/p>\n

Ocean Vuong \u2013\u00a0Night Sky with Exit Wounds<\/em>\u00a0(Cape Poetry)<\/p>\n

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Chair Bill Herbert said:<\/p>\n

‘This was a very strong year, and it was a privilege to read so many books that possessed as well as intrigued us; our shortlist explores grief, pleasure, place and history in a formidable variety of ways.’<\/p>\n


\nThe T. S. Eliot Prize<\/strong>\u00a0is run by\u00a0The T. S. Eliot Foundation<\/strong>. This is the richest prize in British poetry, with the winning poet receiving a cheque for \u00a325,000 and the shortlisted poets each receiving \u00a31,500.
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\nThe T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings<\/strong>\u00a0will take place on Sunday 14th January 2018 in Southbank Centre\u2019s Royal Festival Hall. The shortlist readings are the largest annual poetry event in the UK and will be hosted once again by Ian McMillan. Tickets are now on sale from Southbank Centre\u2019s ticket office on 0203 879 9555 or via\u00a0www.southbankcentre.co.uk\/literature<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The winner of the 2017 Prize will be announced at\u00a0the<\/strong>\u00a0Award Ceremony<\/strong>\u00a0on Monday 15th January 2018, where the winner and the shortlisted poets will be presented with their cheques. This continues the tradition started by Mrs Valerie Eliot, who provided the prize money from the inception of the Prize.
\nLast year\u2019s winner was Jacob Polley for\u00a0Jackself<\/em>\u00a0(Picador). The judges were Ruth Padel (Chair), Julia Copus and Alan Gillis.<\/p>\n

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The weekly T. S. Eliot Prize newsletter will provide essential background on the shortlisted poets, including links to specially-commissioned new videos and reviews.<\/h4>\n

To subscribe go to:\u00a0tseliot.com\/prize\/subscribe-to-the-t-s-eliot-prize-newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To mark the 25th\u00a0anniversary of the T. S. Eliot Prize, the T. S. Eliot Foundation has increased the winner\u2019s prize money to \u00a325,000. Judges Bill Herbert (Chair), James Lasdun and Helen Mort have chosen the shortlist from a record 154 poetry collections submitted by publishers:   Tara Bergin \u2013\u00a0The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx\u00a0(Carcanet) Caroline … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7232"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7247,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions\/7247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}