T. S. Eliot Prize 30th Anniversary

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...
This article on the early years of the T. S. Eliot Prize was written and added to the website in 2025.   The winner of T. S. Eliot Prize 1993 was Ciaran Carson for his collection First Language, published by the Gallery Press. He was awarded £5,000, the generous gift...