{"id":11307,"date":"2025-12-04T08:53:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/?p=11307"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:57:15","slug":"shortlisted-poet-in-focus-nick-makoha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/shortlisted-poet-in-focus-nick-makoha\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortlisted Poet in Focus: Nick Makoha"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Author photo \u00a9 Dirk Skiba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nick Makoha, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 with his collection The New Carthaginians<\/em> (Penguin Press), 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 Nick and his work.<\/p>\n

In the latest additions to the celebrated T. S. Eliot Prize video series, Nick talks about The New Carthaginians<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>and reads his poems ‘flight<\/a>‘, ‘Equals pi<\/em><\/a>‘ <\/em><\/strong>and ‘The New Carthaginian<\/a>‘<\/strong>. View these videos and more on the T. S. Eliot Prize YouTube channel<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Download the Reader\u2019s Notes on The New Carthaginians<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, 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 an incisive<\/strong>\u00a0review, commissioned from John Field<\/strong><\/a>, offering vivid insights into the work.<\/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. Natalie Shapero<\/a><\/strong>, Gillian Allnutt<\/strong><\/a> and Vona Groarke<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0have 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":"

Nick Makoha, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 with his collection The New Carthaginians (Penguin Press), 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 Nick and his work. In the latest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[111,117],"class_list":["post-11307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-111","tag-nick-makoha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307","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=11307"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11473,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307\/revisions\/11473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}