2015 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Sarah Howe, Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus)
SHORTLIST
Mark Doty, Deep Lane (Cape Poetry)
Tracey Herd, Not in This World (Bloodaxe Books)
Selima Hill, Jutland (Bloodaxe Books)
Sarah Howe, Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus)
Tim Liardet, The World Before Snow (Carcanet)
Les Murray, Waiting for the Past (Carcanet)
Sean O’Brien, The Beautiful Librarians (Picador Poetry)
Don Paterson, 40 Sonnets (Faber & Faber)
Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty (Bloodaxe Books)
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Penguin)
Judges: Pascale Petit (Chair), Kei Miller and Ahren Warner
2014 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: David Harsent, Fire Songs (Faber & Faber)
SHORTLIST
Fiona Benson, Bright Travellers (Cape Poetry)
John Burnside, All One Breath (Cape Poetry)
Louise Gluck, Faithful and Virtuous Night (Carcanet)
David Harsent, Fire Songs (Faber & Faber)
Michael Longley, The Stairwell (Cape Poetry)
Ruth Padel, Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth (Chatto & Windus)
Pascale Petit, Fauverie (Poetry Wales)
Kevin Powers, Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting (Little Brown)
Arundhathi Subramaniam, When God is a Traveller (Bloodaxe Books)
Hugo Williams, I Knew the Bride (Faber & Faber)
Judges: Helen Dunmore (Chair), Sean Borodale and Fiona Sampson
2013 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Sinéad Morrissey, Parallax (Carcanet)
SHORTLIST
Dannie Abse, Speak, Old Parrot (Hutchinson)
Moniza Alvi, At the Time of Partition (Bloodaxe Books)
Anne Carson, Red Doc> (Cape Poetry)
Sinéad Morrissey, Parallax (Carcanet)
Helen Mort, Division Street (Chatto & Windus)
Daljit Nagra, Ramayana: A Retelling (Faber & Faber)
Maurice Riordan, The Water Stealer (Faber & Faber)
Robin Robertson, Hill of Doors (Picador Poetry)
Michael Symmons Roberts, Drysalter (Cape Poetry)
George Szirtes, Bad Machine (Bloodaxe Books)
Judges: Ian Duhig (Chair), Imtiaz Dharker and Vicki Feaver
2012 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Sharon Olds, Stag’s Leap (Cape Poetry)
SHORTLIST
Simon Armitage, The Death of King Arthur (Faber & Faber)
Sean Borodale, Bee Journal (Cape Poetry)
Gillian Clarke, Ice (Carcanet)
Julia Copus, The World’s Two Smallest Humans (Faber & Faber)
Paul Farley, The Dark Film (Picador Poetry)
Jorie Graham, P L A C E (Carcanet)
Kathleen Jamie, The Overhaul (Picador Poetry)
Sharon Olds, Stag’s Leap (Cape Poetry)
Jacob Polley, The Havocs (Picador Poetry)
Deryn Rees-Jones, Burying the Wren (Seren Books)
Judges: Carol Ann Duffy (Chair), Michael Longley and David Morley
2011 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: John Burnside, Black Cat Bone (Cape Poetry)
SHORTLIST
John Burnside, Black Cat Bone (Cape Poetry)
Carol Ann Duffy, The Bees (Picador Poetry)
Leontia Flynn, Profit and Loss (Cape Poetry)
David Harsent, Night (Faber & Faber)
John Kinsella, Armour (Picador Poetry)
Esther Morgan, Grace (Bloodaxe Books)
Daljit Nagra, Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! (Faber & Faber)
Sean O’Brien, November (Picador Poetry)
Bernard O’Donoghue, Farmers Cross (Faber & Faber)
Alice Oswald, Memorial (Faber & Faber) (withdrawn at author’s request)
Judges: Gillian Clarke (Chair), Stephen Knight and Dennis O’Driscoll
2010 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Derek Walcott, White Egrets (Faber & Faber)
SHORTLIST
Simon Armitage, Seeing Stars (Faber & Faber)
Annie Freud, The Mirabelles (Picador Poetry)
John Haynes, You (Seren Books)
Seamus Heaney, Human Chain (Faber & Faber)
Pascale Petit, What the Water Gave Me (Seren Books)
Robin Robertson, The Wrecking Light (Picador Poetry)
Fiona Sampson, Rough Music (Carcanet)
Brian Turner, Phantom Noise (Bloodaxe Books)
Derek Walcott, White Egrets (Faber & Faber)
Sam Willetts, New Light for the Old Dark (Cape Poetry)
Judges: Anne Stevenson (Chair), Bernardine Evaristo and Michael Symmons Roberts
2009 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Philip Gross, The Water Table (Bloodaxe Books)
SHORTLIST
Eiléan Ní Chuilleánain, The Sun-fish (Gallery Press)
Fred D’Aguiar, Continental Shelf (Carcanet)
Jane Draycott, Over (Carcanet)
Philip Gross, The Water Table (Bloodaxe Books)
Sinéad Morrissey, Through the Square Window (Carcanet)
Sharon Olds, One Secret Thing (Cape Poetry)
Alice Oswald, Weeds & Wild Flowers (Faber & Faber)
Christopher Reid, A Scattering (Areté)
George Szirtes, The Burning of the Books and Other Poems (Bloodaxe Books)
Hugo Williams, West End Final (Faber & Faber)
Judges: Simon Armitage (Chair), Colette Bryce and Penelope Shuttle
2008 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Jen Hadfield, Nigh-No-Place (Bloodaxe Books)
SHORTLIST
Moniza Alvi, Europa (Bloodaxe Books)
Peter Bennet, The Glass Swarm (Flambard Press)
Ciaran Carson, For All We Know (Gallery Press)
Robert Crawford, Full Volume (Cape Poetry)
Maura Dooley, Life Under Water (Bloodaxe Books)
Mark Doty, Theories and Apparitions (Cape Poetry)
Jen Hadfield, Nigh-No-Place (Bloodaxe Books)
Mick Imlah, The Lost Leader (Faber & Faber)
Glyn Maxwell, Hide Now (Picador Poetry)
Stephen Romer, Yellow Studio (Carcanet)
Judges: Andrew Motion (Chair), Lavinia Greenlaw and Tobias Hill
2007 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Sean O’Brien, The Drowned Book (Picador Poetry)
SHORTLIST
Ian Duhig, The Speed of Dark (Picador Poetry)
Alan Gillis, Hawks and Doves (Gallery Press)
Sophie Hannah, Pessimism for Beginners (Carcanet)
Mimi Khalvati, The Meanest Flower (Carcanet)
Frances Leviston, Public Dream (Picador Poetry)
Sarah Maguire, The Pomegranates of Kandahar (Chatto & Windus)
Edwin Morgan, A Book of Lives (Carcanet)
Sean O’Brien, The Drowned Book (Picador Poetry)
Fiona Sampson, Common Prayer (Carcanet)
Matthew Sweeney, Black Moon (Cape Poetry)
Judges: Peter Porter (Chair), W. N. Herbert, Sujata Bhatt
2006 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Seamus Heaney, District and Circle (Faber & Faber)
SHORTLIST
Simon Armitage, Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid (Faber & Faber)
Paul Farley, Tramp in Flames (Picador Poetry)
Seamus Heaney, District and Circle (Faber & Faber)
W. N. Herbert, Bad Shaman Blues (Bloodaxe Books)
Jane Hirshfield, After (Bloodaxe Books)
Tim Liardet, The Blood Choir (Seren Books)
Paul Muldoon, Horse Latitudes (Faber & Faber)
Robin Robertson, Swithering (Picador Poetry)
Penelope Shuttle, Redgrove’s Wife (Bloodaxe Books)
Hugo Williams, Dear Room (Faber & Faber)
Judges: Sean O’Brien (Chair), Sophie Hannah, Gwyneth Lewis
2005 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture (Picador Poetry)
SHORTLIST
Polly Clark, Take Me With You (Bloodaxe Books)
Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture (Picador Poetry)
Helen Farish, Intimates (Cape Poetry)
David Harsent, Legion (Faber & Faber)
Sinéad Morrissey, The State of the Prisons (Carcanet)
Alice Oswald, Woods etc. (Faber & Faber)
Pascale Petit, The Huntress (Seren Books)
Sheenagh Pugh, The Movement of Bodies (Seren Books)
John Stammers, Stolen Love Behaviour (Picador Poetry)
Gerard Woodward, We Were Pedestrians (Chatto & Windus)
Judges: David Constantine (Chair), Kate Clanchy, Jane Draycott
2004 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: George Szirtes, Reel (Bloodaxe Books)
SHORTLIST
Colette Bryce, The Full Indian Rope Trick (Picador Poetry)
Kathryn Gray, The Never-Never (Seren Books)
Kathleen Jamie, The Tree House (Picador Poetry)
Michael Longley, Snow Water (Cape Poetry)
Ruth Padel, The Soho Leopard (Chatto & Windus)
Tom Paulin, The Road to Inver (Faber & Faber)
Peter Porter, Afterburner (Picador Poetry)
Michael Symmons Roberts, Corpus (Cape Poetry)
George Szirtes, Reel (Bloodaxe Books)
John Hartley Williams, Blues (Cape Poetry)
Judges: Douglas Dunn (Chair), Paul Farley, Carol Rumens
2003 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Don Paterson, Landing Light (Faber & Faber)
SHORTLIST
Billy Collins, Nine Horses (Picador Poetry)
John F. Deane, Manhandling the Deity (Carcanet)
Ian Duhig, The Lammas Hireling (Picador Poetry)
Lavinia Greenlaw, Minsk (Faber & Faber)
Jamie McKendrick, Ink Stone (Faber & Faber)
Bernard O’Donoghue, Outliving (Chatto & Windus)
Don Paterson, Landing Light (Faber & Faber)
Jacob Polley, The Brink (Picador Poetry)
Christopher Reid, For and After (Faber & Faber)
Jean Sprackland, Hard Water (Cape Poetry)
Judges: George Szirtes (Chair), David Harsent, Mimi Khalvati
2002 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Alice Oswald, Dart (Faber & Faber)
SHORTLIST
Simon Armitage, The Universal Home Doctor (Faber & Faber)
John Burnside, The Light Trap (Cape Poetry)
Paul Farley, The Ice Age (Picador Poetry)
David Harsent, Marriage (Faber & Faber)
Geoffrey Hill, The Orchards of Syon (Penguin)
E.A. Markham, A Rough Climate (Anvil Press)
Sinéad Morrissey, Between Here and There (Carcanet)
Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel (Faber & Faber)
Alice Oswald, Dart (Faber & Faber)
Ruth Padel, Voodoo Shop (Chatto & Windus)
Judges: Michael Longley (Chair), Fred D’Aguiar, Deryn Rees-Jones
2001 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband (Cape Poetry)
SHORTLIST
Gillian Allnutt, Lintel (Bloodaxe Books)
Charles Boyle, The Age of Cardboard and String (Faber & Faber)
Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband (Cape Poetry)
Seamus Heaney, Electric Light (Faber & Faber)
Geoffrey Hill, Speech! Speech! (Penguin)
Selima Hill, Bunny (Bloodaxe Books)
James Lasdun, Landscape with Chainsaw (Cape Poetry)
Sean O’Brien, Downriver (Picador Poetry)
Pascale Petit, The Zoo Father (Seren Books)
Michael Symmons Roberts, Burning Babylon (Cape Poetry)
Judges: Helen Dunmore (Chair), John Burnside, Maurice Riordan
2000 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Michael Longley, The Weather in Japan (Cape Poetry)
SHORTLIST
John Burnside, The Asylum Dance (Cape Poetry)
Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours (Cape Poetry)
Michael Donaghy, Conjure (Picador Poetry)
Douglas Dunn, The Year’s Afternoon (Faber & Faber)
Thom Gunn, Boss Cupid (Faber & Faber)
Alan Jenkins, The Drift (Chatto & Windus)
Michael Longley, The Weather in Japan (Cape Poetry)
Roddy Lumsden, The Book of Love (Bloodaxe Books)
Anne Stevenson, Granny Scarecrow (Bloodaxe Books)
Derek Walcott, Tiepolo’s Hound (Faber & Faber)
Judges: Paul Muldoon (Chair), Glyn Maxwell, Kathleen Jamie
1999 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Hugo Williams, Billy’s Rain (Faber & Faber)
SHORTLIST
Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red (Cape Poetry)
Carol Ann Duffy, The World’s Wife (Picador Poetry)
Paul Durcan, Greetings to our Friends in Brazil (Harvill Press)
Michael Hofmann, Approximately Nowhere (Faber & Faber)
Kathleen Jamie, Jizzen (Picador Poetry)
Michael Laskey, The Tightrope Wedding (Smith/Doorstop)
Bernard O’Donoghue, Here Nor There (Chatto & Windus)
Tom Paulin, The Wind Dog (Faber & Faber)
C. K. Williams, Repair (Bloodaxe Books)
Hugo Williams, Billy’s Rain (Faber & Faber)
Judges: Blake Morrison (Chair), Selima Hill, Jamie McKendrick
1998 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters (Faber & Faber)
SHORTLIST
Sarah Corbett, The Red Wardrobe (Seren Books)
Fred D’Aguiar, Bill of Rights (Chatto & Windus)
David Harsent, A Bird’s Idea of Flight (Faber & Faber)
Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters (Faber & Faber)
Jackie Kay, Off Colour (Bloodaxe Books)
Glyn Maxwell, The Breakage (Faber & Faber)
Paul Muldoon, Hay (Faber & Faber)
Ruth Padel, Rembrandt Would Have Loved You (Chatto & Windus)
Jo Shapcott, My Life Asleep (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
Ken Smith, Wild Root (Bloodaxe Books)
Judges: Bernard O’Donoghue (Chair), Simon Armitage, Maura Dooley
1997 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Don Paterson, God’s Gift to Women (Faber & Faber)
SHORTLIST
Fleur Adcock, Looking Back (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
Gillian Allnutt, Nantucket and the Angel (Bloodaxe Books)
Helen Dunmore, Bestiary (Bloodaxe Books)
Selima Hill, Violet (Bloodaxe Books)
Jamie McKendrick, The Marble Fly (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
Don Paterson, God’s Gift to Women (Faber & Faber)
Peter Reading, Work in Regress (Bloodaxe Books)
Matthew Sweeney, The Bridal Suite (Cape Poetry)
Derek Walcott, The Bounty (Faber & Faber)
John Hartley Williams, Canada (Bloodaxe Books)
Judges: Gillian Clarke (Chair), Sean O’Brien, Hugo Williams
1996 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems (Carcanet)
SHORTLIST
Ciaran Carson, Opera Et Cetera (Bloodaxe Books / Gallery Press)
Maura Dooley, Kissing A Bone (Bloodaxe Books)
John Fuller, Stones and Fires (Chatto & Windus)
Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level (Faber & Faber)
Stephen Knight, Dream City Cinema (Bloodaxe Books)
Adrian Mitchell, Blue Coffee (Bloodaxe Books)
Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems (Carcanet)
Alice Oswald, The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
Christopher Reid, Expanded Universes (Faber & Faber)
Susan Wicks, The Clever Daughter (Faber & Faber)
Judges: Andrew Motion (Chair), Helen Dunmore, Ruth Padel
1995 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Mark Doty, My Alexandria (Cape Poetry)
SHORTLIST
Simon Armitage, The Dead Sea Poems (Faber & Faber)
Mark Doty, My Alexandria (Cape Poetry)
Ian Duhig, The Mersey Goldfish (Bloodaxe Books)
Michael Longley, The Ghost Orchid (Cape Poetry)
Glyn Maxwell, Rest for the Wicked (Bloodaxe Books)
Bernard O’Donoghue, Gunpowder (Chatto & Windus)
Katherine Pierpoint, Truffle Beds (Faber & Faber)
Maurice Riordan, A Word from the Loki (Faber & Faber)
Jackie Wills, Powder Tower (Arc Poetry)
Glyn Wright, Could Have Been Funny (Spike)
Judges: James Fenton (Chair), Maura Dooley, Liz Lochhead
1994 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Paul Muldoon, The Annals of Chile (Faber)
SHORTLIST
John Burnside, The Myth of the Twin (Cape Poetry)
Eavan Boland, In a Time of Violence (Carcanet)
W. N. Herbert, Forked Tongue (Bloodaxe Books)
Kathleen Jamie, The Queen of Sheba (Bloodaxe Books)
Geoffrey Lehmann, Spring Forest (Angus & Robertson)
Paul Muldoon, The Annals of Chile (Faber & Faber)
Tom Paulin, Walking a Line (Faber & Faber)
Peter Porter, Millenial Fables (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
Hugo Williams, Dock Leaves (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
Gerard Woodward, After the Deafening (Chatto & Windus)
Judges: Elaine Feinstein (Chair), Ciaran Carson, Robert Crawford, John Fuller, Candia McWilliam
1993 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
WINNER: Ciaran Carson, First Language (Gallery)
SHORTLIST
Moniza Alvi, The Country at My Shoulder (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
Patricia Beer, Friend of Heraclitus (Carcanet)
Ciaran Carson, First Language (Gallery Press)
Carol Ann Duffy, Mean Time (Anvil Press)
Douglas Dunn, Dante’s Drum Kit (Faber & Faber)
James Fenton, Out of Danger (Penguin)
Stephen Knight, Flowering Limbs (Bloodaxe Books)
Les Murray, Translations from the Natural World (Carcanet)
Sharon Olds, The Father (Secker & Warburg)
Don Paterson, Nil Nil (Faber & Faber)
Judges: Peter Porter (Chair), Fleur Adcock, Edna Longley, Robert Crawford, John Lucas