{"id":11315,"date":"2025-12-10T17:30:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/?p=11315"},"modified":"2025-12-11T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:36:11","slug":"shortlisted-poet-in-focus-catherine-esther-cowie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/shortlisted-poet-in-focus-catherine-esther-cowie\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortlisted Poet in Focus: Catherine-Esther Cowie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Author photo \u00a9 Esther Cowie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Catherine-Esther Cowie, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 with her collection Heirloom<\/em> (Carcanet 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 Catherine-Esther and her work.<\/p>\n

In the latest additions to the celebrated T. S. Eliot Prize video series, Catherine-Esther talks about Heirloom <\/em><\/strong><\/a>and reads her poems ‘The Outside Child<\/a>‘, ‘Mimoriam<\/a>‘ <\/strong>and ‘Aftermath<\/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 Heirloom<\/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 a searching<\/b>\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":"

Catherine-Esther Cowie, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 with her collection Heirloom (Carcanet 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 Catherine-Esther and her work. In the latest additions to […]<\/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":[111,119],"class_list":["post-11315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-111","tag-catherine-esther-cowie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315","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=11315"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11550,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315\/revisions\/11550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}