WINNER
2000

The Weather in Japan

Cape Poetry
Michael Longley (c) Bobbie Hanvey 2014
Michael Longley, born in Belfast on 27 July 1939, was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and read classics at Trinity College Dublin. He later taught in Dublin, London and Belfast, and served, from 1970 until his retirement in 1991, as Director of Combined Arts at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. The author of thirteen poetry collections, as...

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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 2000 was Michael Longley for his collection The Weather in Japan (Cape Poetry). Longley was presented with a cheque for £10,000,...

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