{"id":11231,"date":"2025-10-16T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/?p=11231"},"modified":"2025-11-17T16:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:43:33","slug":"shortlisted-poet-in-focus-gillian-allnutt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/shortlisted-poet-in-focus-gillian-allnutt\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortlisted Poet in Focus: Gillian Allnutt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gillian Allnutt. Author photo \u00a9 Phyllis Christopher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gillian Allnutt, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 with her collection Lode<\/em><\/a> (Bloodaxe Books), is the featured poet in this week\u2019s Eliot Prize newsletter. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The newsletter tells you about the wide range of content we have just published to help you get to know Gillian and her work.<\/p>\n

Download the Reader\u2019s Notes on Lode<\/i><\/a><\/strong>, which include a selection of poems from the collection, plus reviews, reading suggestions, and a writing prompt or two for those inspired to respond creatively. The aim of the Readers\u2019 Notes is to inspire deeper readings of the book, individually or shared with friends, book groups or writing workshops.<\/p>\n

We have also published a perceptive review, commissioned from John Field<\/a><\/strong>, offering powerful insights into the work.<\/p>\n

In the latest additions to the celebrated T. S. Eliot Prize video series, Gillian talks about her collection Lode<\/em><\/strong><\/a> and reads her poems ‘At 71’<\/strong><\/a>, ‘Solitude’<\/strong><\/a> and ‘Poem for John Clinging’<\/strong><\/a>. View these videos and more on the T. S. Eliot Prize YouTube channel<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Look out for the latest additions to the Poetry School’s Writer’s Notes<\/strong><\/a> series, educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from the poets shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Vona Groarke<\/a><\/strong> and Natalie Shapero<\/a><\/strong> have written the first of this year’s articles; look out for more by this year’s shortlisted poets in the coming weeks and browse the series on the Poetry School website<\/a><\/strong>..<\/p>\n

To be the first to read Eliot Prize news, simply sign up to weekly newsletter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gillian Allnutt, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 with her collection Lode (Bloodaxe Books), is the featured poet in this week\u2019s Eliot Prize newsletter. The newsletter tells you about the wide range of content we have just published to help you get to know Gillian and her work. Download the Reader\u2019s Notes on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[111,112],"class_list":["post-11231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-111","tag-allnutt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11231"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11412,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231\/revisions\/11412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}