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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...
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...
The 26th T. S. Eliot Prize will be awarded this year, two and half decades on from the inaugural Prize being presented in 1993 to Ciarán Carson for his collection First Language, published by The Gallery Press. Carson was shortlisted again in 2008 for For All We Know, also published...
