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We’ve recently refreshed the T. S. Eliot Prize website, which now offers a fuller picture of all the shortlisted poets and books from across the Prize’s history. To add a new dimension to this living archive, we thought we’d highlight the incredible video and audio recordings we’ve gathered over the...
We are very sad to report the death of John Burnside on 29 May, aged 69, following a short illness. John won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for Black Cat Bone, a collection the judges described as ‘a haunting book of great beauty, powered by love, childhood memory,...
In 2023 the T. S. Eliot Prize celebrated its 30th anniversary. We marked the occasion by looking back at the collections which have won ‘the Prize poets most want to win’ (Sir Andrew Motion). Don Paterson is the only poet to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize twice: in...
In 2023 the T. S. Eliot Prize celebrated its 30th anniversary. We marked the occasion by looking back at the collections which have won ‘the Prize poets most want to win’ (Sir Andrew Motion). When David Harsent won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2014 for Fire Songs (Faber & Faber),...
In 2023 the T. S. Eliot Prize celebrated its 30th anniversary. We marked the occasion by looking back at the collections which have won ‘the Prize poets most want to win’ (Sir Andrew Motion). Hannah Sullivan won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2018 with her debut collection Three Poems (Faber...