Bernard O’Donoghue was born in Cullen, Co Cork in 1945, later moving to Manchester. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, where he taught Medieval English and Modern Irish Poetry. He has published six collections of poetry, including Gunpowder (Chatto & Windus), winner of the 1995 Whitbread Prize for Poetry, and Farmers Cross (Faber & Faber), which was shortlisted...
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This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2004. Don Paterson was named the winner of the 11th T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry at an award ceremony held at Lancaster House in London on Monday 19 January. He...
