The T. S. Eliot Prize Readers’ Notes series offer introductions to help you access and explore the ten exciting collections on this year’s shortlist. They each include some key poems, biographies of the poets, extracts from reviews and interviews; they also suggest creative writing prompts. Take the notes to your book group or poetry workshop, or respond individually to them in your own time. English teachers – if you’re preparing your students for any Unseen Poem papers, hone their skills on this year’s list.
To view, download and share the Readers’ Notes, simply click on the links below.
Raymond Antrobus, Signs, Music (Picador Poetry)
Hannah Copley, Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry / Liverpool University Press)
Helen Farish, The Penny Dropping (Bloodaxe Books)
Peter Gizzi, Fierce Elegy (Penguin Poetry)
Gustav Parker Hibbett, High Jump as Icarus Story (Banshee Press)
Rachel Mann, Eleanor Among the Saints (Carcanet Press)
Gboyega Odubanjo, Adam (Faber & Faber)
Carl Phillips, Scattered Snows, to the North (Carcanet Press)
Katrina Porteous, Rhizodont (Bloodaxe Books)