{"id":7618,"date":"2025-02-26T08:57:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T08:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?page_id=7618"},"modified":"2025-06-26T14:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:20:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
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T. S. Eliot Prize winners to 2022: (top row, from left) Ocean Vuong, Michael Longley, Carol Ann Duffy, Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney, Sarah Howe, Don Paterson; (second row) Bhanu Kapil, Ted Hughes, Sean O\u2019Brien, Sharon Olds, Roger Robinson, Alice Oswald, Philip Gross; (third row) Joelle Taylor, Anthony Joseph, John Burnside, Les Murray, Hannah Sullivan, Jen Hadfield; (fourth row) Mark Doty, Ciaran Carson, Derek Walcott, Jacob Polley, Anne Carson, Hugo Williams, George Szirtes, Sin\u00e9ad Morrissey, David Harsent.<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, having been inaugurated in 1993 to mark the Poetry Book Society\u2019s 40th birthday and honour its founding poet. You can read former Director Chris Holifield\u2019s short history of the Prize\u2019s growth and development<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on this website.<\/p>\n

Described as \u2018the prize poets most want to win\u2019 (Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate) and \u2018the world\u2019s top poetry award\u2019 (Independent<\/em>), it is awarded annually to the author of the best new collection of poetry published in the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n

The Prize is firmly established as the most valuable and prestigious in the UK for a new collection of poetry. It is distinctive among poetry prizes in being judged by a panel of established poets. In 2017, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Prize, the T. S. Eliot Estate increased the value of the Prize. The winner now receives \u00a325,000 and the ten shortlisted poets each receive \u00a31,500.<\/p>\n

The T. S. Eliot Prize has been funded by the poet\u2019s estate since it was founded in 1993.\u00a0<\/span>The charity, the Poetry Book Society, which formerly ran the Prize, closed down in 2016, transferring the PBS, its membership and book club to Inpress Ltd.<\/a><\/p>\n

Contact the T. S. Eliot Prize at hello[@]tseliotprize.com<\/p>\n

Media queries relating to the T. S. Eliot Prize should be addressed to Gina Rozner ginarozner[@]icloud.com<\/p>\n

List of previous winners<\/h3>\n
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  • 2024 Peter Gizzi<\/strong>\u00a0Fierce Elegy<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2023 Jason Allen-Paisant<\/strong>\u00a0Self-Portrait as Othello<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2022 Anthony Joseph<\/strong>\u00a0Sonnets for Albert<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2021 Joelle Taylor<\/strong>\u00a0C+nto & Othered Poems<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2020 Bhanu Kapil<\/strong>\u00a0How to Wash a Heart<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2019 Roger Robinson<\/strong>\u00a0A Portable Paradise<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2018 Hannah Sullivan<\/strong>\u00a0Three Poems<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2017 Ocean Vuong<\/strong>\u00a0Night Sky with Exit Wounds<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2016 Jacob Polley<\/strong>\u00a0Jackself<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2015\u00a0Sarah Howe<\/strong>\u00a0Loop of Jade<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2014\u00a0David Harsent<\/strong>\u00a0Fire Songs<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2013\u00a0Sin\u00e9ad Morrissey<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Parallax<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2012\u00a0Sharon Olds<\/strong>\u00a0Stag\u2019s Leap<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2011\u00a0John Burnside<\/strong>\u00a0Black Cat Bone<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2010\u00a0Derek Walcott<\/strong>\u00a0White Egrets<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2009\u00a0Philip Gross<\/strong>\u00a0The Water Table<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2008\u00a0Jen Hadfield<\/strong>\u00a0Nigh-No-Place<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2007\u00a0Sean O\u2019Brien<\/strong>\u00a0The Drowned Book<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2006\u00a0Seamus Heaney<\/strong>\u00a0District and Circle<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2005\u00a0Carol Ann Duffy<\/strong>\u00a0Rapture<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2004\u00a0George Szirtes<\/strong>\u00a0Reel<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2003\u00a0Don Paterson<\/strong>\u00a0Landing Light<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2002\u00a0Alice Oswald<\/strong>\u00a0Dart<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2001\u00a0Anne Carson<\/strong>\u00a0The Beauty of the Husband<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 2000\u00a0Michael Longley<\/strong>\u00a0The Weather in Japan<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 1999\u00a0Hugo Williams<\/strong>\u00a0Billy\u2019s Rain<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 1998\u00a0Ted Hughes<\/strong>\u00a0Birthday Letters<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 1997\u00a0Don Paterson<\/strong>\u00a0God\u2019s Gift to Women<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 1996\u00a0Les Murray<\/strong>\u00a0Subhuman Redneck Poems<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 1995\u00a0Mark Doty<\/strong>\u00a0My Alexandria<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 1994\u00a0Paul Muldoon<\/strong>\u00a0The Annals of Chile<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 1993\u00a0Ciaran Carson<\/strong>\u00a0First Language: Poems<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    T. S. Eliot Prize winners to 2022: (top row, from left) Ocean Vuong, Michael Longley, Carol Ann Duffy, Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney, Sarah Howe, Don Paterson; (second row) Bhanu Kapil, Ted Hughes, Sean O\u2019Brien, Sharon Olds, Roger Robinson, Alice Oswald, Philip Gross; (third row) Joelle Taylor, Anthony Joseph, John Burnside, Les Murray, Hannah Sullivan, Jen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4997,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7618","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7618"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10901,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7618\/revisions\/10901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}