Stories
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...
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2014. It would have been marvellous to detect in the air around now a rising hum of argument and speculation about the shortlist for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2014. In a...
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2014. In autumn 2013, the Poetry Book Society organised a ten-venue national tour, funded by Arts Council England, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the T. S. Eliot Prize. At each...
