Dr. Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet based in London. The New Carthaginians follows his debut collection Kingdom of Gravity (2017), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and named one of The Guardian’s Best Books of the Year. Winner of the Ivan Juritz Prize, the Poetry London Prize, the Brunel African Poetry Prize and the Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Prize (for his pamphlet Resurrection Man), Nick has been writer in residence for the ICA, the Wordsworth Trust and Wasafiri. He is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, a Complete Works alumnus and founder of the Obsidian Foundation. His play The Dark, produced by Fuel Theatre and directed by JMK award-winner Roy Alexander, toured nationally in 2019, was shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award and won the 2021 Columbia International Play Reading Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Author photo © Dirk Skiba
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Judges John Burnside (Chair), Sarah Howe and Nick Makoha have chosen the T. S. Eliot Prize 2019 Shortlist from 158 poetry collections submitted by British and Irish publishers. Featuring new voices and veteran poets, and covering an extraordinary range of themes, the Shortlist comprises five men, four women and one...
The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the judges for the 2019 Prize. The panel will be chaired by John Burnside, alongside Sarah Howe and Nick Makoha. The 2019 judging panel will be looking for the best new poetry collection written in English and published in 2019. The...
