{"id":12016,"date":"2026-10-15T12:31:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/?p=12016"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:17:58","slug":"12016-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/12016-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortlisted poet in focus: Jorie Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12017\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12017\" style=\"width: 1097px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12017 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Graham-Jorie-600-x-1200px-\u00a9-Dino-Ignani-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1097\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Graham-Jorie-600-x-1200px-\u00a9-Dino-Ignani-.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Graham-Jorie-600-x-1200px-\u00a9-Dino-Ignani--300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Graham-Jorie-600-x-1200px-\u00a9-Dino-Ignani--1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Graham-Jorie-600-x-1200px-\u00a9-Dino-Ignani--768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1097px) 100vw, 1097px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author photo \u00a9 Dino Ignani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Josie Graham, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2026 with her collection <em>Killing Spree<\/em> (Carcanet Press), is the featured poet in <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/tseliotprize\/jorie_graham?e=[UNIQID]\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this week\u2019s Eliot Prize newsletter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The newsletter tells you about the wide range of content we have just published to help you get to know Jorie and her work.<\/p>\n<p>We have published a searching <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/work\/killing-spree\/#review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>review<\/strong><\/a> of <em>Killing Spree<\/em>, commissioned from John Field, which offers vivid insights into the work. You can also download the <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GRAHAM-Readers-Notes-2026-WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Reader\u2019s Notes<\/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. Use these to inspire deeper readings of the book, and to share with friends, book groups or writing workshops.<\/p>\n<p>Videos of Jorie Graham reading from <em>Killing Spree<\/em> and interviewed about her collection will be available shortly \u2013 watch for updates here and be sure to subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TSEliotprizeYT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>T. S. Eliot Prize channel on YouTube<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To be the first to read Eliot Prize news, simply <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/subscribe-to-the-t-s-eliot-prize-newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>sign up to weekly newsletter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josie Graham, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2026 with her collection Killing Spree (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 Jorie and her work. We have published a [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-12016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12016","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=12016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12022,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12016\/revisions\/12022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}