Tom Paulin grew up in Belfast and now lives in Oxford, where he is Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, University of Oxford. Namanlagh (Faber & Faber), his first collection in a decade, is his tenth book of poetry and was recently awarded the PEN Heaney Prize 2025, as well as being shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025. Of...
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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 1999 was Hugo Williams for his collection Billy’s Rain (Faber & Faber). Williams was awarded £5,000, the generous gift of Mrs...
