Lavinia Greenlaw was born in London. She has published six collections of poetry with Faber & Faber, including: Minsk (2003), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes; The Casual Perfect (2011); A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde (2014), which was shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Poetry Award; and The Built Moment (2019), winner of Winner of the East Anglian Book Award for Poetry. Her Selected Poems was published in 2024. She has also written novels, including In the City of Love’s Sleep (2018), and non-fiction, including The Importance of Music to Girls (2007), Some Answers Without Questions (2021) and The Vast Extent: On Seeing and Not Seeing Further (2024). Her sound work, Audio Obscura, commissioned by Artangel and Manchester International Festival, won the 2011 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. She currently holds the Chair in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2023 she was appointed Poetry Editor of Faber & Faber. Author photo © Isaac Hargreaves
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The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce that the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2020 is Bhanu Kapil for How to Wash a Heart, published by Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press). Chair Lavinia Greenlaw said: Our Shortlist celebrated the ways in which poetry is responding to...
Judges Lavinia Greenlaw (Chair), Mona Arshi and Andrew McMillan have chosen the 2020 T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist from 153 poetry collections submitted by British and Irish publishers. The shortlist comprises work from five men and five women; two Americans; as well as poets of Native American, Chinese Indonesian and...
The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the judges for the 2020 Prize. The panel will be chaired by Lavinia Greenlaw, alongside Mona Arshi and Andrew McMillan. The 2020 judging panel will be looking for the best new poetry collection written in English and published in 2020. The...
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2009. Congratulations to Jen Hadfield for winning the T. S. Eliot Prize 2008 for Nigh-No-Place (Bloodaxe Books). The other poets on the shortlist were: Moniza Alvi for Europa (Bloodaxe Books) Peter...
