Leontia Flynn has published five full-length poetry collections and been recognised as a leading voice in contemporary poetry, in the North of Ireland and beyond. Her first collection These Days (2004) won an Eric Gregory Award in manuscript, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread (Costa) Poetry Prize. The same year Flynn was named one of twenty ‘Next Generation’ poets by the Poetry Book Society in association with The Guardian. She has since won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Irish Times poetry prize, a Cholmondeley Award, and twice been nominated for the T. S. Eliot Prize. She has also published works of criticism and several poetry pamphlets, and was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022. She lives in Belfast and is a professor at Queen’s University. Author photo © Steve Martin
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We’re delighted to announce the T. S. Eliot Prize 2026 Shortlist – ten exciting collections of ‘linguistic disruption, personal reflection [and] humorous lyricism’. They are books, says Leontia Flynn, Chair of judges, that ‘share a determination to meet the challenges faced in difficult times with closer attention to language’. The...
Get your tickets now for our annual celebration of the best of British and Irish poetry, the prestigious T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 17 January 2027. You won’t want to miss performances from the shortlisted poets, as chosen by judges...
The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the judges for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2026. Leontia Flynn (Chair) will be joined on the panel by fellow poets Ishion Hutchinson and Daisy Lafarge. Leontia Flynn said: It’s an honour to chair this year’s T. S. Eliot Prize, alongside...
