The T. S. Eliot Prize, which former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion has described as “the Prize poets most want to win”, is an annual prize for the best new poetry collection published in the UK or Ireland.
HUMOUR, INTIMACY, JOY AND ENERGY IN ‘WONDERFULLY DIVERSE’ ELIOT PRIZE 2024 SHORTLIST
We are thrilled to announce the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024 Shortlist, chosen by judges Mimi Khalvati (Chair), Anthony Joseph and Hannah Sullivan from 187 poetry collections submitted by British and Irish publishers. The eclectic…
‘DAZZLING CRITIQUES AND VISUALS’ – YOUNG CRITICS REVIEW THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2024 SHORTLIST
The T.S. Eliot Prize and The Poetry Society are delighted to publish the first five of ten video reviews created by participants in this year’s Young Critics Scheme. ‘The videos combine both dazzling critiques and…
SHORTLISTED POET IN FOCUS: CARL PHILLIPS
I think it’s a book about being older and also the slipperiness of memory […] It’s very troubling I find, the older I get, to realise that memory can’t be trusted. We often remember things…
SHORTLISTED POET IN FOCUS: GBOYEGA ODUBANJO
‘What a voice [Gboyega Odubanjo] has – fresh, worn, elegiac, present. If ever a volume offered a story about water, loss, migration and every last one of us, Adam does. – Andrew O’Hagan, Observer Gboyega…
SHORTLISTED POET IN FOCUS: RACHEL MANN
I hope that [Eleanor Among the Saints] will enable anyone to discover, no matter what they think about gender or sexuality, to discover at the edge of words, the edge of what’s sayable, the edge…