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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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We are delighted to announce that the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 opened for submissions at 9am BST on Monday 2 June 2025. This year’s panel of judges – Michael Hofmann (Chair), Patience Agbabi and Niall Campbell – 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 2025. Chair Michael Hofmann will be joined on the panel by Patience Agbabi and Niall Campbell. Michael Hofmann said: I’m delighted to be asked to judge the T. S. Eliot Prize and look...
There was a brilliant response to the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024 Shortlist Readings, held at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 12 January 2025. Each of the ten shortlisted poets, including Karen McCarthy Woolf (shown above) gave extraordinary readings at what is the largest annual poetry event in the...
The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024 is Peter Gizzi for Fierce Elegy, published by Penguin Poetry. Chair Mimi Khalvati said: We are delighted to welcome and honour a work that is infinitely sad yet resolute, and so fully...
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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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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...
The T. S. Eliot Prize is deeply saddened to report the death of Michael Longley on 22 January 2025 at the age of 85. Michael Longley won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2000 for The Weather in Japan, about which Paul Muldoon, the Chair of judges, said: ‘These are...
The UK’s largest annual poetry event is just days away. Book your tickets now for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024 Shortlist Readings on Sunday 12 January 2025 at 7pm. Join host Ian McMillan and the shortlisted poets for a spectacular evening out at the Southbank Centre’s historic Royal Festival Hall. The...
McCarthy Woolf has […] breathed new life into this well-worn trope (Mannequin, Toy Story… erm Chucky), adding poignancy to the book’s “stranger than fiction” tale of a heiress who preferred dolls to people.’ – Yvonne Singh, Writers Mosaic Karen McCarthy Woolf, shortlisted for Top Doll (Dialogue Books, 2024), is the...
