David Harsent has published numerous collections of poetry, including Legion (Faber & Faber, 2005), which won the Forward Prize; and Night (2011), a Poetry Book Society Choice, which was shortlisted for the Costa, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes and won the Griffin International Poetry Prize. His most recent collections are Salt (2017), Loss (2020) and Skin (2024), all with...
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In 2023 the T. S. Eliot Prize celebrated its 30th anniversary. We marked the occasion by looking back at the collections which have won ‘the Prize poets most want to win’ (Sir Andrew Motion). When David Harsent won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2014 for Fire Songs (Faber & Faber),...
Between 2006 and 2015, the Poetry Book Society ran the T. S. Eliot School Shadowing Scheme (later renamed the Writing Competition) in collaboration with the English and Media Centre, offering GCSE and A Level students the chance to get involved with the judging of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Two...
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2015. The Poetry Book Society is delighted to announce that the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2014 is David Harsent’s Fire Songs, published by Faber & Faber....
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2014. It would have been marvellous to detect in the air around now a rising hum of argument and speculation about the shortlist for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2014. In a...
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2014. The Poetry Book Society is delighted to announce a wonderfully strong and varied Shortlist for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2014, with two poets from the US, one from India, three...
