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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). First Language by Ciaran Carson (Gallery Press) was awarded the first T. S. Eliot Prize in...
Lynn Gaspard of Saqi Books on ‘a poetic tour de force, earth-shattering in its impact and vital in its representation of a community increasingly losing space within the mainstream’ For over thirty years, Saqi Books has released seminal, cutting-edge works about the Middle East and North Africa, offering an independent...
Parisa Ebrahimi on a celebrated imprint, now run entirely by women Chatto & Windus has a long and illustrious history of publishing poetry. Founded in 1855, it is one of the UK’s oldest literary imprints, and the oldest continuous imprint at Penguin Random House. Poetry has formed the backbone of...