James Lasdun was born in London in 1958 and now lives in the US. His poetry collections include A Jump Start (Secker & Warburg, 1987), The Revenant (1995), Landscape with Chainsaw (2001), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes, and Water Sessions (2012), all published by Cape Poetry, and Bluestone: New and Selected Poems (2015, Farrar Straus, Giroux). He has published several novels, including The Fall Guy, and books of short stories, including the selection The Siege, the title story of which was made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci (Besieged). With Jonathan Nossiter he co-wrote the films Sunday, which won Best Feature and Best Screenplay awards at the Sundance Film Festival, and Signs and Wonders, starring Charlotte Rampling and Stellan Skarsgaard. With Michael Hofmann he edited the anthology After Ovid: New Metamorphoses.
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The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce that this year’s winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2017 is Ocean Vuong for his remarkable debut collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, published by Cape Poetry. After months of reading and deliberation, Judges W. N. Herbert (Chair), James...
To mark the 25th anniversary of the T. S. Eliot Prize, the T. S. Eliot Foundation has increased the winner’s prize money to £25,000. Judges W. N. Herbert (Chair), James Lasdun and Helen Mort have chosen the Shortlist from a record 154 poetry collections submitted by publishers. Tara Bergin, The...
The T. S. Eliot Prize has announced the judges for the 2017 Prize for the best new poetry collection published in the year. W. N. Herbert will be Chair of the judging panel, alongside poets James Lasdun and Helen Mort. The call for submissions has now gone out, with the...
