Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with three children. Her first collection of poetry, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), received a Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. Her collections include Dart, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2002 and was a Poetry Book Society Choice; Woods etc. (which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize);...
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This article on the early years of the T. S. Eliot Prize was written and added to the website in 2025. The winner of T. S. Eliot Prize 1996 was Australian poet Les Murray for his collection Subhuman Redneck Poems (Carcanet Press). Although he was unable to be present...
