Jane Hirshfield is the author of numerous books of poetry, essays and books collecting the work of women writers from the past. Her honours include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Academy of American Poets, and the NEA, as well as the Poetry Center Book Award and California Book Award in poetry. Given Sugar, Given Salt (2001) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle and winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award in the USA. After (Bloodaxe Books, 2006) was a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Since then, Hirshfield has received further accolades, including becoming the first American and the first woman to receive the Zhongkun International Poetry Prize in 2024. Her major retrospective, The Asking: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2024), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Author photo © Curt Richter
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This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2006. The Poetry Book Society is pleased to announce the Shortlist for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2006, to be awarded to the writer of the best new collection of poetry published...
