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We have just published this week’s T. E. Eliot Prize newsletter. Don’t forget to sign up to be the first with Eliot Prize news. This week, we’ve highlighted where you can hear an Eliot Prize poet near you – present shortlistees and Eliot alumni, too. Readings range from Berwick-upon-Tweed and...
We are thrilled to announce the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024 Shortlist, chosen by judges Mimi Khalvati (Chair), Anthony Joseph and Hannah Sullivan from 187 poetry collections submitted by British and Irish publishers. The eclectic list comprises seasoned poets, two debuts, two second collections, and two previously shortlisted poets from...
The Poetry Society and T. S. Eliot Prize are delighted to announce the cohort for the third instalment of their partnership programme, the Young Critics Scheme. The ten young writers selected will each review one of the poetry collections shortlisted for the 2024 T. S. Eliot Prize. The young reviewers...
With the programme just announced for 2024’s The Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, we invite you to join us for this year’s T. S. Eliot Prize reading. Jason Allen-Paisant, who won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2023, will be joined by guest reader Eve Esfandiari-Denney. Both poets are...
The T. S. Eliot Prize and The Poetry Society are delighted to invite applications for the third year of the highly praised and hugely successful Young Critics Scheme. The programme offers a unique development opportunity to ten budding reviewers aged 18 to 25 in the UK and Ireland. Young Critics...
We are very sad to report the death of John Burnside on 29 May, aged 69, following a short illness. John won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for Black Cat Bone, a collection the judges described as ‘a haunting book of great beauty, powered by love, childhood memory,...
