WINNER
1995

My Alexandria

Cape Poetry
Mark Doty (c) Rachel Eliza Griffiths (002)
Mary Doty is the author of more than ten volumes of poetry, including School of the Arts, Source and My Alexandria, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize 1995, making him the first American poet to be awarded the Prize. He was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize with his collections Theory of Apparitions (2008) and Deep Lane (2015), published...

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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 1995 was Mark Doty for his collection My Alexandria (Cape Poetry), his first collection to be published in the UK; he...

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