Jo Shapcott was born in London. Poems from her three award-winning collections, Electroplating the Baby (1988), Phrase Book (1992) and My Life Asleep (1998), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, are gathered in a selected poems collection, Her Book (2000). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Collection,...
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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 the T. S. Eliot Prize 1998 was Ted Hughes for his collection Birthday Letters (Faber & Faber). The prize was awarded posthumously, Ted Hughes having...
