Maura Dooley was born in Truro, grew up in Bristol, worked for some years in Yorkshire, and has lived in London for over three decades. She edited Making for Planet Alice: New Women Poets (1997) and The Honey Gatherers: A Book of Love Poems (2002) for Bloodaxe Books, and How Novelists Work (2000) for Seren. Her selection, Sound Barrier: Poems...
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This article on the early years of the T. S. Eliot Prize was written and added to the website in 2025. The winner of T. S. Eliot Prize 1996 was Australian poet Les Murray for his collection Subhuman Redneck Poems (Carcanet Press). Although he was unable to be present...
