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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,...
The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the judges for the 2024 T. S. Eliot Prize for poetry. Mimi Khalvati will chair, and will be joined on the panel by Anthony Joseph and Hannah Sullivan. The Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best new...
When the T. S. Eliot Prize founded the Young Critics scheme with The Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network, the aim was to empower young critics, to offer a different critical viewpoint on the shortlisted collections, and to engage more young readers with the Prize. Following a series of workshops led...
We asked members of the Southbank Centre’s New Poets Collectives if they would help us mark the 30th anniversary of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Over recent weeks, members of the Collectives have been making video recordings of readings from the winning collections of the past three decades. Recorded indoors...
We are thrilled to announce the T. S. Eliot Prize 2023 Shortlist, chosen by judges Paul Muldoon (Chair), Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul from 186 poetry collections submitted by British and Irish publishers. The list comprises a former winner and two previously shortlisted poets, as well as two debuts and two...
