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The UK\u2019s largest annual poetry event is just days away.\u00a0Book your tickets now<\/a>\u00a0for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024 Shortlist Readings on Sunday 12 January 2025 at 7pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n Join host Ian McMillan and the shortlisted poets for a spectacular evening out at the Southbank Centre\u2019s historic Royal Festival Hall. The event will be British Sign Language interpreted and if you can\u2019t join us in person you can also enjoy the Readings from the comfort of your own home via the livestream<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile there are many ways to engage with the shortlisted titles, including:<\/p>\n Wonderful videos of shortlisted poets reading<\/strong> from and discussing their collections on the Eliot Prize YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n Brilliantly inventive video reviews<\/strong> by participants in this year’s Young Critics Scheme<\/a>, a partnership programme with The Poetry Society.<\/p>\n John Field\u2019s insightful and expansive reviews<\/a><\/strong> which offer a brilliant survey of this year\u2019s shortlisted collections.<\/p>\n Our illuminating and thought-provoking Readers\u2019 Notes<\/a>,<\/strong> designed to aid your enjoyment and understanding with selected poems, reviews and prompts.<\/p>\n The Writers\u2019 Notes<\/strong> series<\/a>\u00a0created and published by the Poetry School. Find out how it’s done as our shortlisted poets describe the diverse approaches they took to writing their collections.<\/p>\n And don’t miss the Poetry Book Society’s amazing offer<\/a><\/strong> of the entire Eliot Prize Shortlist<\/a> for just \u00a390 to PBS members and \u00a3120 to non-members (including free UK postage).<\/p>\n Author photos, top, L to R: Peter Gizzi (photo \u00a9 Rick Myers); Karen McCarthy Woolf (photo \u00a9 Yasmine Akim); Carl Phillips (photo \u00a9 Reston Allen); Gboyega Odubanjo (photo \u00a9 Asare Debrah); Katrina Porteous (photo \u00a9 Tony Griffiths)<\/em> The UK\u2019s largest annual poetry event is just days away.\u00a0Book your tickets now\u00a0for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024 Shortlist Readings on Sunday 12 January 2025 at 7pm. Join host Ian McMillan and the shortlisted poets for a spectacular evening out at the Southbank Centre\u2019s historic Royal Festival Hall. The event will be British Sign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-6504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-63"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504","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=6504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6654,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions\/6654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nBottom, L to R: Hannah Copley (photo \u00a9 Nick Dennis); Gustav Parker Hibbett (photo \u00a9 Abbie McNeice); Rachel Mann (photo \u00a9 KTPhotography); Helen Farish (photo \u00a9 Phyllis Christopher); Raymond Antrobus (photo \u00a9 Chantal Lawrie)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"