We have just published this week’s T. E. Eliot Prize newsletter. Don’t forget to sign up to be the first with Eliot Prize news.
This week, we’ve highlighted where you can hear an Eliot Prize poet near you – present shortlistees and Eliot alumni, too. Readings range from Berwick-upon-Tweed and Birmingham, to Leeds, London and elsewhere. Simply click on the links we’ve listed below for full details.
L to r: Eve Esfandiari-Denney (photo; Lara Laeverenz); Jason Allen-Pasaint (photo: Adrian Pope for the T. S. Eliot Prize)
And here’s a last reminder that Jason Allen-Paisant, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2023, will be giving a celebratory reading at Cheltenham Literature Festival tomorrow afternoon, 3:30pm, Friday 11 October. Self-Portrait as Othello was described by the judges as ‘a book with large ambitions that are met with great imaginative capacity, freshness and technical flair. As the title would suggest, the poetry is delivered with theatricality and in a range of voices and registers, across geographies and eras.’
Jason will be joined by another brilliant performer, Eve Esfandiari-Denney – who has been shortlisted for the 2024 Forward Prizes’ Jerwood Prize for Best Single Poem – Performed. To book, visit the Cheltenham Literature Festival box office.
ELIOT POETS EVENTS
Don’t miss your chance to see our shortlist and alumni in action near you!
12 October, Berwick-upon-Tweed : Berwick Literary Festival: Bloodaxe Poetry event with Katrina Porteous
12 October, London: Sutton Literary Festival: Karen McCarthy Woolf in conversation with Shani Akilah
13 October, London: Sutton Literary Festival: Raymond Antrobus in conversation with Kate Wakeling
13 October, Birmingham: University of Birmingham: Peter Gizzi reading
16 October, London: Picador Poetry Presents, with Raymond Antobus, Jackie Kay and Harry Josephine Giles, The Social
18 October, Manchester: Manchester Literature Festival: Raymond Antrobus, Caleb Femi & Theresa Lola
18 October, St Andrews: University of St Andrews: Peter Gizzi colloquim and reading
19 October, Leeds: Out Else: Peter Gizzi, Luke Roberts and Jazz Linklater
22 October, Oxford: Poets at Keble: Peter Gizzi
28 October, New York: Plutzik Reading Series: Carl Phillips
30 October, London: Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre and Poetry London presents: Poetry and Music: Raymond Antrobus, Martha Kapos and Taz Rahman