The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the judges for the 2024 T. S. Eliot Prize for poetry. Mimi Khalvati will chair, and will be joined on the panel by Anthony Joseph and Hannah Sullivan.
The Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best new poetry collection written in English and published in the UK or Ireland in 2024. It is unique in that entries are always judged by a panel of established poets.
Mimi Khalvati said:
The T. S. Eliot Prize is a high point in our poetry calendar and it is an honour and a privilege to work with my fellow judges, the acclaimed poets Anthony Joseph and Hannah Sullivan, in discovering and celebrating this year’s outstanding collections.
The call for submissions will go out in June, with the submission window closing at the end of July; full details will be published on the submissions webpage shortly. The judges will meet in October to decide on the ten-book shortlist.
The T. S. Eliot Prize 2024 Shortlist Readings will take place on Sunday 12 January 2025 at 7pm in the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall as part of its literature programme. This is the largest annual poetry event in the UK. Tickets for the Readings will be on sale later this year.
The winner of the 2024 Prize will be announced at the Award Ceremony at the Wallace Collection, London, on Monday 13 January 2025 , where the winner will be presented with a cheque for £25,000. The shortlisted poets will each receive £1,500.
Last year’s winner was Jason Allen-Paisant for his collection Self-Portrait as Othello (Carcanet Press); the judges were Paul Muldoon (Chair), Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul.
For full information on this year’s judges, visit the Shortlist page.
The T. S. Eliot Prize was inaugurated by the Poetry Book Society in 1993 to mark the Poetry Book Society’s fortieth birthday, and to honour its founding poet. The T. S. Eliot estate has provided the prize money since the Prize’s inception, and the T. S. Eliot Foundation took over the running of the Prize in 2016, following Inpress Books’ acquisition of the PBS. The winner of the first T. S. Eliot Prize was Ciaran Carson for his collection First Language (Gallery Press). A full list of all the winners can be found in the Past Years section of the T. S. Eliot Prize website.
