Join host Ian McMillan and the shortlisted poets for a spectacular evening out at the Southbank Centre’s historic Royal Festival Hall. The event will be British Sign Language interpreted and if you can’t join us in person you can also enjoy the Readings from the comfort of your own home via the livestream.

Meanwhile there are many ways to engage with the shortlisted titles, including:

Wonderful videos of shortlisted poets reading from and discussing their collections on the Eliot Prize YouTube channel.

Brilliantly inventive video reviews by participants in this year’s Young Critics Scheme, a partnership programme with The Poetry Society.

John Field’s insightful and expansive reviews which offer a brilliant survey of this year’s shortlisted collections.

Our illuminating and thought-provoking Readers’ Notes, designed to aid your enjoyment and understanding with selected poems, reviews and prompts.

The Writers’ Notes series created and published by the Poetry School. Find out how it’s done as our shortlisted poets describe the diverse approaches they took to writing their collections.

And don’t miss the Poetry Book Society’s amazing offer of the entire Eliot Prize Shortlist for just £90 to PBS members and £120 to non-members (including free UK postage).

Author photos, top, L to R: Peter Gizzi (photo © Rick Myers); Karen McCarthy Woolf (photo © Yasmine Akim); Carl Phillips (photo © Reston Allen); Gboyega Odubanjo (photo © Asare Debrah); Katrina Porteous (photo © Tony Griffiths)
Bottom, L to R: Hannah Copley (photo © Nick Dennis); Gustav Parker Hibbett (photo © Abbie McNeice); Rachel Mann (photo © KTPhotography); Helen Farish (photo © Phyllis Christopher); Raymond Antrobus (photo © Chantal Lawrie)