T. S. Eliot Prize
British poetry prize
Award
T. S. Eliot Prize Awarded for Best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland Country United Kingdom First awarded 1993; 31 years ago (1993 ) Website Official website
The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prize for poetry awarded by the T. S. Eliot Foundation. For many years it was awarded by the Eliots' Poetry Book Society (UK) to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland"[1] in any particular year. The Prize was inaugurated in 1993 in celebration of the Poetry Book Society's 40th birthday and in honour of its founding poet, T. S. Eliot . Since its inception, the prize money was donated by Eliot's widow, Valerie Eliot and more recently it has been given by the T. S. Eliot Estate.
The T. S. Eliot Foundation took over the running of the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2016, appointing as its new director Chris Holifield (formerly director of the Poetry Book Society),[2] when the former Poetry Book Society charity had to be wound up, with its book club and company name taken over by book sales agency Inpress Ltd in Newcastle. Holifield retired at the end of June 2022 after 20 years in the post, being replaced by Mike Sims.[3] The winner now receives £25,000 and the ten shortlisted poets each receive £1,500, making it the United Kingdom's most valuable annual poetry competition. The Prize has been called "the most coveted award in poetry".[4]
The shortlist for the Prize is announced in October of each year, and the 10 shortlisted poets take part in the Readings at the Royal Festival Hall in London's Southbank Centre on the evening before the announcement of the Prize.[5] Two thousand people attended the 2011 reading.[6]
List of winners
1993 – Ciarán Carson , First Language: Poems
1994 – Paul Muldoon , The Annals of Chile
1995 – Mark Doty , My Alexandria
1996 – Les Murray , Subhuman Redneck Poems
1997 – Don Paterson , God's Gift to Women
1998 – Ted Hughes , Birthday Letters
1999 – Hugo Williams , Billy's Rain
2000 – Michael Longley , The Weather in Japan
2001 – Anne Carson , The Beauty of the Husband
2002 – Alice Oswald , Dart
2003 – Don Paterson , Landing Light
2004 – George Szirtes , Reel
2005 – Carol Ann Duffy , Rapture
2006 – Seamus Heaney , District and Circle
2007 – Sean O'Brien , The Drowned Book
2008 – Jen Hadfield , Nigh-No-Place
2009 – Philip Gross , The Water Table [7]
2010 – Derek Walcott , White Egrets
2011 – John Burnside , Black Cat Bone
2012 – Sharon Olds , Stag's Leap
2013 – Sinéad Morrissey , Parallax
2014 – David Harsent , Fire Songs [8]
2015 – Sarah Howe , Loop of Jade [9]
2016 – Jacob Polley , Jackself [10]
2017 – Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds [11]
2018 – Hannah Sullivan , Three Poems [12]
2019 – Roger Robinson , A Portable Paradise
2020 – Bhanu Kapil , How to Wash a Heart [13]
2021 – Joelle Taylor , C+nto & Othered Poems [14]
2022 – Anthony Joseph , Sonnets for Albert [15]
2023 – Jason Allen-Paisant , Self-Portrait as Othello [16]
List of judges
2023 – Paul Muldoon , Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul
2022 – Jean Sprackland , Hannah Lowe and Roger Robinson
2021 – Glyn Maxwell , Caroline Bird and Zaffar Kunial
2020 – Lavinia Greenlaw , Mona Arshi and Andrew McMillan
2019 — John Burnside , Sarah Howe and Nick Makoha
2018 — Clare Pollard , Sinéad Morrissey and Daljit Nagra
2017 — W. N. Herbert , James Lasdun and Helen Mort
2016 — Julia Copus , Ruth Padel and Alan Gillis
2015 – Kei Miller , Pascale Petit and Ahren Warner
2014 – Sean Borodale , Helen Dunmore and Fiona Sampson
2013 – Imtiaz Dharker , Ian Duhig and Vicki Feaver
2012 – Carol Ann Duffy , Michael Longley and David Morley
2011 – Gillian Clarke , Stephen Knight and Dennis O'Driscoll
2010 – Bernardine Evaristo , Anne Stevenson and Michael Symmons Roberts
2009 – Simon Armitage , Colette Bryce and Penelope Shuttle
2008 – Lavinia Greenlaw , Tobias Hill and Andrew Motion
2007 – Sujata Bhatt , W. N. Herbert and Peter Porter
2006 – Sophie Hannah , Gwyneth Lewis and Sean O'Brien
2005 – David Constantine , Kate Clanchy and Jane Draycott
2004 – Douglas Dunn , Paul Farley and Carol Rumens
2003 – David Harsent , Mimi Khalvati and George Szirtes
2002 – Michael Longley , Fred D’Aguiar and Deryn Rees-Jones
2001 – John Burnside , Helen Dunmore and Maurice Riordan
2000 – Paul Muldoon , Glyn Maxwell and Kathleen Jamie
1999 – Blake Morrison , Selima Hill and Jamie McKendrick
1998 – Bernard O’Donoghue , Simon Armitage and Maura Dooley
1997 – Gillian Clarke , Sean O’Brien and Hugo Williams
1996 – Andrew Motion , Helen Dunmore and Ruth Padel
1995 – James Fenton , Maura Dooley and Liz Lochhead
1994 – Elaine Feinstein , Ciaran Carson , Robert Crawford , John Fuller and Candia McWilliam
1993 – Peter Porter , Fleur Adcock , Edna Longley , Robert Crawford and John Lucas
Shortlists
2020s
2023
Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant (Carcanet Press)
More Sky by Joe Carrick-Varty (Carcanet Press)
A Change in the Air by Jane Clarke (Bloodaxe Books)
The Ink Cloud Reader by Kit Fan (Carcanet Press)
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris (Pavilion Poetry / Liverpool University Press)
School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson (Faber & Faber)
Hyena! by Fran Lock (Poetry Bus Press)
The Map of the World by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Gallery Press)
Balladz by Sharon Olds (Cape Poetry)
I Think We’re Alone Now by Abigail Parry (Bloodaxe Books)
2022 [17]
Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley (Faber & Faber)
Ephemeron by Fiona Benson (Cape Poetry)
Wilder by Jemma Borg (Pavilion Poetry / Liverpool University Press)
The Thirteenth Angel by Philip Gross (Bloodaxe Books)
Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph (Bloomsbury Poetry)
England's Green by Zaffar Kunial (Faber & Faber)
Slide by Mark Pajak (Cape Poetry)
bandit country by James Conor Patterson (Picador Poetry)
The Room Between Us by Denise Saul (Pavilion Poetry/Liverpool University Press)
Manorism by Yomi Sode (Penguin Poetry)
2021 [18]
2020
2010s
2019
2018
Insistence by Ailbhe Darcy (Bloodaxe Books)
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins by Terrance Hayes (Penguin)
Us by Zaffar Kunial (Faber & Faber)
Feel Free by Nick Laird (Faber & Faber)
The Distal Point by Fiona Moore (HappenStance)
Europa by Sean O’Brien (Picador Poetry)
Shrines of Upper Austria by Phoebe Power (Carcanet)
Soho by Richard Scott (Faber & Faber)
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith (Penguin)
Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan (Faber & Faber)
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
The shortlist was announced 23 October 2013. [20]
2012
The shortlist was announced 23 October 2012 .[21]
2011
2010
2000s
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1990s
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
See also
References
^ "Rules and Conditions of Entry for the T.S. Eliot Prize" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 September 2007. Retrieved 27 September 2007 .
^ Cowdrey, Katherine (15 June 2016). "Former PBS director Holifield to run T S Eliot Prize" . The Bookseller . Retrieved 11 November 2022 .
^ Bayley, Sian (18 May 2022). "T S Eliot Prize director Holifield retires after 20 years as Sims takes on role" . The Bookseller .
^ Jury, Louise (16 January 2007). "Heaney wins £10,000 TS Eliot prize" . The Independent . London. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012.
^ "The T S Eliot Prize" . Retrieved 26 October 2016 .
^ Cran, Rona (27 January 2011). "Report: 2011 T.S.Eliot Prize" . The Literateur . Retrieved 12 March 2011 .
^ Rahim, Sameer (21 January 2010). "The Water Table by Philip Gross: review" . The Telegraph . Retrieved 17 July 2019 .
^ Kennedy, Maev (12 January 2015). "David Harsent wins TS Eliot prize for poetry for Fire Songs" . The Guardian . Retrieved 20 June 2019 .
^ "Debut collection scoops T S Eliot Prize" . Poetry Book Society . 12 January 2016. Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2016 .
^ Thompson, Jessie (16 January 2017). "TS Eliot Prize: Jacob Polley is awarded world's most prestigious poetry prize for his collection Jackself" . Evening Standard . Retrieved 17 January 2017 .
^ Cain, Sian (15 January 2018). "TS Eliot prize goes to Ocean Vuong's 'compellingly assured' debut collection" . The Guardian . Retrieved 16 January 2018 .
^ Thompson, Jessie (14 January 2019). "The winner of this year's TS Eliot Prize for poetry has been announced" . Evening Standard . Retrieved 14 January 2019 .
^ Flood, Alison (24 January 2021). "Bhanu Kapil wins TS Eliot poetry prize for 'radical' How to Wash a Heart" . The Guardian . Retrieved 26 January 2021 .
^ "Taylor wins 2021 T S Eliot Prize" . Books+Publishing . 17 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022 .
^ "Winner – The T. S. Eliot Prize" . tseliot.com . Retrieved 17 January 2023 .
^ Creamer, Ella (15 January 2024). "Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant's Self-Portrait as Othello wins TS Eliot prize" . The Guardian . Retrieved 16 January 2024 .
^ Shaffi, Sarah (13 October 2022). "TS Eliot prize announces a 'shapeshifting' shortlist" . The Guardian . Retrieved 13 October 2022 .
^ "T S Eliot Prize shortlist announced" . Books+Publishing . 15 October 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2021 .
^ Flood, Alison (10 January 2022). "Joelle Taylor wins TS Eliot poetry prize for 'blazing' C+nto & Othered Poems" . The Guardian . Retrieved 12 January 2022 .
^ Runcie, Charlotte (24 October 2013). "TS Eliot Prize 2013: shortlist announced" . The Daily Telegraph . London.
^ Flood, Alison (23 October 2012). "TS Eliot prize for poetry announces 'fresh, bold' shortlist" . The Guardian . London. Retrieved 23 October 2012 .
^ Clark, Nick (14 January 2013). "Poet Sharon Olds scoops TS Eliot Prize for 'confessional' work about her husband's affair" . The Guardian . London. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022.
^ Flood, Alison (6 December 2011). "Alice Oswald withdraws from TS Eliot prize in protest at sponsor Aurum" . The Guardian .
^ Flood, Alison (7 December 2011). "TS Eliot prize: Second poet withdraws in sponsor protest" . The Guardian .
^ "T.S. Eliot Prize 2010 Shortlist" . Poetry Book Society. Archived from the original on 2 February 2011.
^ "BBC News Today – TS Eliot Prize 2009" . BBC News. 15 January 2010.
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