T. S. Eliot Prize News
I want the list to be full of surprises for the reader, marked by formal and linguistic intelligence, and by invention which is not the same thing as novelty, says Michael Schmidt Carcanet Press is delighted that Sasha Dugdale has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2020 for...
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...
Roger Robinson has won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2019 with his searing collection A Portable Paradise, published by Peepal Tree Press. After months of reading and deliberation, judges John Burnside, Sarah Howe and Nick Makoha unanimously chose the winner from a Shortlist which comprised five men, four women and...
It worked in The Waste Land. But it made work in the British Museum nearly impossible for a young T. S. Eliot. For no sooner had he settled at his desk each Saturday afternoon than, ‘there sounded the familiar warning’: ‘’Hurry up please, it’s time’. Employed at Lloyds bank, Eliot...
This year sees the 27th T. S. Eliot Prize being awarded, and the roster of past winners includes some very well-known poets alongside some lesser known authors that demand further attention. To refresh the memory of prizes past, the T. S. Eliot Prize website contains a trove of information on...
