Seamus Heaney was born on 13 April 1939 in County Derry, Northern Ireland. His first collection, Death of a Naturalist (Faber & Faber), was published in 1965, and was followed by nearly 100 books, including District and Circle (Faber & Faber), which won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2006; he was shortlisted for the Eliot Prize in 1996 for The...
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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...
