{"id":2106,"date":"2022-10-05T17:26:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T16:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2025-02-17T15:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T15:09:01","slug":"t-s-eliot-events-at-cheltenham-literature-festival-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/t-s-eliot-events-at-cheltenham-literature-festival-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"T. S. Eliot events at Cheltenham Literature Festival 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1988 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Jean_Sprackland_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><strong>Would you like to be among the first to hear which collections have been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2022?<\/strong> Then join <strong>Jean Sprackland, chair of judges<\/strong>, at a free event at this year&#8217;s Cheltenham Literature Festival. Jean will announce which ten collections she and her fellow judges have chosen, share the judges&#8217; thoughts on the books and invite your questions. Drop in at The Huddle, Montpellier Gardens, Cheltenham, on Thursday 13 October, 3-4pm. For more details, view <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheltenhamfestivals.com\/lit-free-events\">the Festival free programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1927 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Joelle_Taylor_Ceremony_Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Also on 13 October, at 7pm, don\u2019t miss a celebratory reading by <strong>T. S. Eliot Prizewinner 2021, Joelle Taylor<\/strong>. Joelle will read from her Prize-winning collection, <em>C+nto &amp; Othered Poems<\/em>, described by 2021 chair Glyn Maxwell as \u2018a blazing book of rage and light, a grand opera of liberation\u2019. <strong>Ollie O\u2019Neill<\/strong>, former UK Youth Slam Champion and Barbican Young Poet alumni, will be Joelle\u2019s guest reader. Tickets are \u00a310 and can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheltenhamfestivals.com\/literature\/whats-on\/2022\/joelle-taylor-cnto-and-othered-poems\">purchased online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2111 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hollis-Waste-Land-531x815-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"307\" \/>The following day, in another Cheltenham Literature Festival exclusive, <strong>Matthew Hollis<\/strong>, Faber Poetry Editor and author of the forthcoming <em>The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem<\/em>, <strong>Erica Wagner<\/strong>, critic and author, and <strong>Daljit Nagra<\/strong>, twice shortlisted for and a former judge of the T. S. Eliot Prize, will present an expert guide to Eliot&#8217;s <em>The Waste Land<\/em> in its centenary year. See them on Friday 16 October, from 6.15pm, on the Baillie Gifford Stage, Town Hall, Cheltenham; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheltenhamfestivals.com\/literature\/whats-on\/2022\/the-waste-land-at-100\">tickets \u00a312 available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like to be among the first to hear which collections have been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2022? Then join Jean Sprackland, chair of judges, at a free event at this year&#8217;s Cheltenham Literature Festival. Jean will announce which ten collections she and her fellow judges have chosen, share the judges&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106","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=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6701,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions\/6701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}