Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of three collections of poetry: Far District, winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry 2011; House of Lords and Commons, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry 2016; and School of Instructions, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2023 and winner of the Rilke Prize 2025. His book of essays, Fugitive Tilts: Essays was published in 2025. His other awards include the Windham–Campbell Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize. Awarded Jamaica’s Gold Musgrave Medal for distinguished contributions to literature in 2021, Hutchinson is a co-founding member of the Global Black Initiative Collective at Cornell University where he is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor in the Humanities and a trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize. Photo © Marco Giugliarelli
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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...
