Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Born in Hong Kong to an English father and Chinese mother, she moved to England as a child. Her pamphlet, A Certain Chinese Encyclopedia, won an Eric Gregory Award, and her first collection, Loop of Jade (Chatto Poetry, 2015), won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Foretokens (Chatto Poetry, 2025) is her second collection and is the Poetry Book Society’s Winter Choice. In 2014, she co-founded Prac Crit, an online journal of poetry and criticism. She is currently the Poetry Editor at Chatto & Windus and an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool. Author photo © Marc Lixenberg
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Roger Robinson has won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2019 with his searing collection A Portable Paradise, published by Peepal Tree Press. After months of reading and deliberation, judges John Burnside, Sarah Howe and Nick Makoha unanimously chose the winner from a Shortlist which comprised five men, four women and...
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...
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2016. The Poetry Book Society is delighted to announce that the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2015 is Sarah Howe for her debut collection Loop of Jade, an intimate...
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2015. The Poetry Book Society is delighted to announce a distinguished international Shortlist for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2015, with one poet from the US, one from Jamaica, one from Australia,...
