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The T. S. Eliot Prize is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2023, having been inaugurated by the Poetry Book Society in 1993 to mark the Poetry Book Society\u2019s 40th birthday, and to honour its founding poet. The T. S. Eliot estate has provided the prize money since the Prize\u2019s inception, and the T. S. Eliot Foundation took over the running of the Prize in 2016, following Inpress Books\u2019 acquisition of the PBS.<\/p>\n
We have been delving into that glittering past and hope to stir happy memories as we reflect on the rich archive the Prize has built up over the decades.<\/p>\n
Chris Holifield, former Director of the Prize, has chronicled the history and growth of the Prize in an article on the T. S. Eliot Prize website<\/a>. We have also asked past winners to tell us about the impact the Prize has had on their writing and careers. \u2018I think it has changed the way I write: towards what, and for whom\u2019, responded Bhanu Kapil, our 2020 winner. \u2018It changed other people\u2019s sense of what I\u2019d already written, at least slightly, and that was good luck\u2019, said Hannah Sullivan<\/a>, who won in 2018. \u2018But it also changed my own sense of what I might write in the future, and that was a gift.\u2019 Sin\u00e9ad Morrissey<\/a>, who won in 2013, wrote: \u2018Though it\u2019s a decade ago now \u2013 inexorably, another ten years has passed \u2013 and though winning is never a given, but rather an extraordinary stroke of brightly-coloured luck \u2013 being awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize changed my life.\u2019<\/p>\n To read the articles by Bhanu, Hannah and Sin\u00e9ad in full, alongside fascinating contributions by many other winners, visit the Eliot website news pages. And be sure to look out for other ways we\u2019ll be celebrating the Eliot Prize\u2019s 30th anniversary in the months ahead.<\/p>\n T. S. Eliot Prize winners: (top row, from left) Ocean Vuong, Michael Longley, Carol Ann Duffy, Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney, Sarah Howe, Don Paterson; (second row) Bhanu Kapil, Ted Hughes, Sean O\u2019Brien, Sharon Olds, Roger Robinson, Alice Oswald, Philip Gross; (third row) Joelle Taylor, Anthony Joseph, John Burnside, Les Murray, Hannah Sullivan, Jen Hadfield; (fourth row) Mark Doty, Ciaran Carson, Derek Walcott, Jacob Polley, Anne Carson, Hugo Williams, George Szirtes, Sin\u00e9ad Morrissey, David Harsent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The T. S. Eliot Prize is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2023, having been inaugurated by the Poetry Book Society in 1993 to mark the Poetry Book Society\u2019s 40th birthday, and to honour its founding poet. The T. S. Eliot estate has provided the prize money since the Prize\u2019s inception, and the T. S. Eliot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tse30","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868","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=7868"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11587,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions\/11587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}