Jen Hadfield was born in Cheshire and lives in Shetland. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003 and was given a Scottish Arts Council Writer’s Bursary in 2002 to help her complete her first collection, Almanacs, which was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2005. She used her Eric Gregory Award to fund a year’s residence in Canada, where she...
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This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2009. Congratulations to Jen Hadfield for winning the T. S. Eliot Prize 2008 for Nigh-No-Place (Bloodaxe Books). The other poets on the shortlist were: Moniza Alvi for Europa (Bloodaxe Books) Peter...
