2025
T. S. Eliot Prize
Announcements
Introduction
The T. S. Eliot Prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best new poetry collection published in the UK and Ireland. Described by Sir Andrew Motion as ‘the prize poets most want to win’ and by The Independent as the ‘world’s top poetry award’, it is the most prestigious poetry prize in the world, and the only major poetry prize judged purely by established poets. It is also the most valuable in British poetry: the winning poet receives £25,000 and each of the shortlisted poets £1,500.
Announcements
Introduction
The T. S. Eliot Prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best new poetry collection published in the UK and Ireland. Described by Sir Andrew Motion as ‘the prize poets most want to win’ and by The Independent as the ‘world’s top poetry award’, it is the most prestigious poetry prize in the world, and the only major poetry prize judged purely by established poets. It is also the most valuable in British poetry: the winning poet receives £25,000 and each of the shortlisted poets £1,500.
Announcements
Shortlisted Works
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Shortlisted Poets
Gillian Allnutt was born in London but spent half her childhood in Newcastle upon Tyne. Nantucket and the...
Isabelle Baafi is a poet, editor and critic. Her pamphlet Ripe (ignitionpress) won the Somerset Maugham Award and...
Catherine-Esther Cowie was born in St Lucia to a Tobagonian father and a St Lucian mother. She migrated...
Paul Farley was born in Liverpool and studied at the Chelsea School of Art. He has published six...
Vona Groarke was born in the Irish Midlands in 1964. She attended Trinity College, Dublin and University College,...
Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Born in Hong Kong to an English father and...
Dr. Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet based in London. The New Carthaginians follows his debut collection Kingdom...
Tom Paulin grew up in Belfast and now lives in Oxford, where he is Emeritus Fellow of Hertford...
Natalie Shapero lives in Los Angeles and teaches writing at UC Irvine. Her writing has appeared in The...
Karen Solie grew up in southwest Saskatchewan. Wellwater (Picador Poetry), her sixth collection of poetry, is the joint...
Judges
CHAIR
Michael Hofmann FRSL was born in 1957 in Freiburg, the son of German parents, and came to England...
Videos
Related News Stories
We’re delighted to announce the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 Shortlist, which offers ‘something for everyone’ in collections of ‘great range, suggestiveness and power’. Judges Michael Hofmann (Chair), Patience Agbabi and Niall Campbell chose the Shortlist from 177 poetry collections submitted by 64 British and Irish publishers. The diverse list...
The T. S. Eliot Prize and The Poetry Society are delighted to announce the cohort for the fourth instalment of the Young Critics Scheme. Ten young writers have been selected and will each review, in video form, one of the poetry collections shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025....
The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the judges for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025. Chair Michael Hofmann will be joined on the panel by Patience Agbabi and Niall Campbell. Michael Hofmann said: I’m delighted to be asked to judge the T. S. Eliot Prize and look...
There was a brilliant response to the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024 Shortlist Readings, held at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 12 January 2025. Each of the ten shortlisted poets, including Karen McCarthy Woolf (shown above) gave extraordinary readings at what is the largest annual poetry event in the...
