The T. S. Eliot Prize, which former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has described as “the Prize most poets want to win”, is an annual prize for the best new poetry collection published in the UK or Ireland.
2021 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE SHORTLIST CELEBRATES ‘TEN BOOKS THAT SOUND CLEAR AND COMPELLING VOICES OF THE MOMENT’
Judges Glyn Maxwell (Chair), Caroline Bird and Zaffar Kunial have chosen the 2021 T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist from a record 177 poetry collections submitted by British and Irish publishers. The shortlist consists of an…
Corsair Poetry
Sarah Castleton It would be disingenuous of me to claim that the list began with any kind of manifesto. It didn’t. It’s not entirely untrue that it began with a certain low-level…
Perspectives and Connections: On Publishing Poetry
Jane Commane, Nine Arches Press photo © Lee Townsend 2020 has been a strange and challenging year for so many of us. Here at Nine Arches, we’ve been adapting to working from home as…
Pavilion Poetry
Deryn Rees-Jones 2021 will mark the seventh anniversary of Pavilion Poetry. Our list is small – we usually only publish three books each spring – but it has been a huge pleasure…
Poetry Powerhouses
Andrew McMillan I’m writing this from Manchester; currently in Tier 3 of the lockdown hierarchy designed to combat the global coronavirus pandemic.(And yes, since I started writing this, things have moved on further,…