{"id":5106,"date":"2019-01-03T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T12:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/?p=881"},"modified":"2025-05-27T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T11:21:13","slug":"the-t-s-eliot-prize-shortlist-readings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/the-t-s-eliot-prize-shortlist-readings-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9826\" src=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/covers-2018-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/covers-2018-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/covers-2018-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/covers-2018-1024x643.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/covers-2018-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/covers-2018-1536x965.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/covers-2018-2048x1286.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/>Hosted by the inimitable Ian McMillan, the acclaimed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southbankcentre.co.uk\/whats-on\/132426-ts-eliot-prize-readings-2019\">T. S. Eliot Prize Readings<\/a> on 13 January will showcase the poets shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2018 by the judges, Chair Sin\u00e9ad Morrissey, Daljit Nagra and Clare Pollard.<\/p>\n<p>All ten poets chosen by the judges have accepted the invitation to read, so we\u2019re looking forward to a wonderful evening of great poetry from Ailbhe Darcy, Terrance Hayes, Zaffar Kunial, Nick Laird, Fiona Moore, Sean O\u2019Brien, Phoebe Power, Richard Scott, Tracy K. Smith and Hannah Sullivan. For the first time, the Shortlist includes five debut collections in what has been described by the <em>Guardian<\/em> as an \u2018intensely political\u2019 list.<\/p>\n<p>An exciting evening of poetry will offer the opportunity to hear some of the best contemporary poets in the English-speaking world reading from their own work, on the evening before the announcement of the winner of the most valuable prize in British poetry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southbankcentre.co.uk\/whats-on\/132426-ts-eliot-prize-readings-2019\">Book online now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hosted by the inimitable Ian McMillan, the acclaimed T. S. Eliot Prize Readings on 13 January will showcase the poets shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2018 by the judges, Chair Sin\u00e9ad Morrissey, Daljit Nagra and Clare Pollard. All ten poets chosen by the judges have accepted the invitation to read, so we\u2019re looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[40,35],"class_list":["post-5106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-40","tag-shortlist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5106"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10052,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106\/revisions\/10052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}