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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...
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). Philip Gross won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2009 for The Water Table (Bloodaxe Books), chosen...
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). Bhanu Kapil won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2020, judged by Lavinia Greenlaw (Chair), Mona Arshi...
Former Director Chris Holifield describes the founding and three decades of growth of the T. S. Eliot Prize The T. S. Eliot Prize arose out of Eliot’s own involvement in the foundation of the Poetry Book Society. In 1953 Eliot was one of the group of people who came together...
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). Sean O’Brien won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2007 with The Drowned Book (Picador Poetry), a...