2026
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 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 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
Jorie Graham is the author of sixteen collections of poems, including To 2040 (2023), [To] the Last [Be]...
Keith Jarrett is a writer and educator of Jamaican heritage. His debut poetry collection, Selah (2017), was published...
Sylvia Legris’ collection The Principle of Rapid Peering (2024) won the City of Saskatoon Award and was nominated...
Born in London, Imani Mason Jordan is a writer, editor, artist and curator working across performance and poetics....
Shara McCallum is from Jamaica, of Jamaican and Venezuelan parentage. She is the author of seven books of...
Kim Moore’s collection All the Men I Never Married (Seren, 2021) won the 2022 Forward Prize for Best...
Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 and is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive and...
Holly Pester grew up in the West Midlands and now lives in Colchester where she works as a...
Billy Ramsell’s first two poetry collections, published by Dedalus Press, are Complicated Pleasures (2007) and The Architect’s Dream...
Jana Prikryl is the author of four books of poems, including The After Party (2016), No Matter (2019), and Midwood (2022). The Channel (2026) is the...
Judges
CHAIR
Leontia Flynn has published five full-length poetry collections and been recognised as a leading voice in contemporary poetry,...
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