This short film chronicles the Tour<\/a>, with an emphasis on events at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library, Square Chapel for the Arts in Halifax and Sheffield’s Off the Shelf Festival.<\/p>\nAmong the better-known past winners, Sean O\u2019Brien\u2019s career has seen him win every major poetry prize in the UK, having been shortlisted five times for the T. S. Eliot Prize: in 2001 for Downriver<\/i>, in 2007 for The Drowned Book <\/i>(which won the Prize that year), in 2011 for November<\/i>, in 2015 for The Beautiful Librarians<\/i> and again this year with Europa<\/i> (all Picador Poetry). Simon Armitage has been shortlisted no less than four times, alongside Pascale Petit and David Harsent, who won the Prize in 2014 with Fire Songs<\/i> (Faber & Faber).<\/p>\n
Many poets have been shortlisted twice or more, including Fiona Sampson (twice), Ruth Padel (three times), Paul Farley (four times, including this year\u2019s shortlisting), Kathleen Jamie (twice), Carol Ann Duffy (twice, winning with Rapture<\/i> (Picador) in 2005), Jacob Polley (three times, winning with Jackself<\/i> (Picador) in 2016), Mark Doty (three times, winning in the Prize\u2019s third year with My Alexandria<\/i> (Cape Poetry), Jen Hadfield (shortlisted twice, winning with her debut Nigh-no-place<\/i> (Bloodaxe Books) in 2008), Anne Carson (twice), Sharon Olds (twice, winning in 2013 with Stag\u2019s Leap<\/i> (Cape), Seamus Heaney (three times, winning with District and Circle<\/i> (Faber) in 2006), Robin Robertson (three times), Selima Hill (twice, in 2001 and 2015), Michael Longley (three times, winning in 2000 with The Weather in Japan<\/i> (Cape), and John Burnside, this year’s Chair of Judges, who has been shortlisted three times and won the Prize in 2011 with Black Cat Bone<\/i> (Cape). Don Paterson, who has been shortlisted three times, remains the only poet to have won the Prize twice, in 1997 with God\u2019s Gift to Women<\/i> and again in 2003 with Landing Light<\/i> (both Faber).<\/p>\n
In the last ten years, the Prize has been won four times by debut collections \u2013 Jen Hadfield in 2008 with Nigh-No-Place<\/em>, Sarah Howe (one of this year\u2019s Judges) with Loop of Jade<\/i> (Chatto & Windus) in 2015, Ocean Vuong in 2016 with Night Sky with Exit Wounds<\/i> (Cape) and Hannah Sullivan’s Three Poems<\/i> (Faber & Faber) last year. Many debut collections have been shortlisted down the years, notably Jacob Polley\u2019s The Brink <\/i>in 2003, Kathryn Gray\u2019s The Never Never<\/i> in 2004, Helen Farish\u2019s Intimates<\/i> in 2005, Frances Leviston\u2019s Public Dream<\/i> in 2008, Sam Willetts\u2019 New Light for the Old Dark<\/i> in 2010, Helen Mort\u2019s Division Street<\/i> in 2013 and Fiona Benson\u2019s Bright Travellers<\/i> in 2014. This year\u2019s Prize Shortlist contains two debutants \u2013 Jay Bernard and Ilya Kaminsky (with his first collection published in the UK), alongside established T. S. Eliot Prize shortlistees such as Sharon Olds, Deryn Rees-Jones and Paul Farley.<\/p>\nA total of seven publishers have won the T. S. Eliot Prize: poets from Faber & Faber have won ten times, Cape Poetry six, Bloodaxe Books and Picador Poetry three times each, Carcanet Press twice and Chatto & Windus and The Gallery Press once each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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