T. S. Eliot Prize | |
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Awarded for | Best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland |
Country | United Kingdom |
Reward(s) | £25,000 GBP (winner) £1,500 GBP (finalists) |
First awarded | 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) for "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 administration 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, and was 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]
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref |
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1993 | Ciaran Carson | First Language: Poems | Gallery Press | Won | [7] |
Moniza Alvi | The Country at My Shoulder | OUP / Oxford Poetry | Shortlisted | [7] | |
Patricia Beer | Friend of Heraclitus | Carcanet Press | |||
Carol Ann Duffy | Mean Time | Anvil Press | |||
Douglas Dunn | Dante's Drum Kit | Faber & Faber | |||
James Fenton | Out of Danger | Penguin Poetry | |||
Stephen Knight | Flowering Limbs | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Les Murray | Translations from the Natural World | Carcanet Press | |||
Sharon Olds | The Father | Secker & Warburg | |||
Don Paterson | Nil Nil | Faber & Faber | |||
1994 | Paul Muldoon | The Annals of Chile | Faber & Faber | Won | [7] |
John Burnside | The Myth of the Twin | Cape Poetry | Shortlisted | [7] | |
Eavan Boland | In a Time of Violence | Carcanet Press | |||
W. N. Herbert | Forked Tongue | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Kathleen Jamie | The Queen of Sheba | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Geoffrey Lehmann | Spring Forest | Angus & Robertson | |||
Tom Paulin | Walking a Line | Faber & Faber | |||
Peter Porter | Millenial Fables | OUP / Oxford Poetry | |||
Hugo Williams | Dock Leaves | OUP / Oxford Poetry | |||
Gerard Woodward | After the Deafening | Chatto & Windus | |||
1995 | Mark Doty | My Alexandria | Cape Poetry | Won | [7] |
Simon Armitage | The Dead Sea Poems | Faber & Faber | Shortlisted | [7] | |
Ian Duhig | The Mersey Goldfish | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Michael Longley | The Ghost Orchid | Cape Poetry | |||
Glyn Maxwell | Rest for the Wicked | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Bernard O'Donoghue | Gunpowder | Chatto & Windus | |||
Katherine Pierpoint | Truffle Beds | Faber & Faber | |||
Maurice Riordan | A Word from the Loki | Faber & Faber | |||
Jackie Wills | Powder Tower | Arc Poetry | |||
Glyn Wright | Could Have Been Funny | Spike | |||
1996 | Les Murray | Subhuman Redneck Poems | Carcanet Press | Won | [7] |
Ciaran Carson | Opera Et Cetera | Bloodaxe Books / Gallery Press | Shortlisted | [7] | |
Maura Dooley | Kissing A Bone | Bloodaxe Books | |||
John Fuller | Stones and Fires | Chatto & Windus | |||
Seamus Heaney | The Spirit Level | Faber & Faber | |||
Stephen Knight | Dream City Cinema | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Adrian Mitchell | Blue Coffee | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Alice Oswald | The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile | OUP / Oxford Poetry | |||
Christopher Reid | Expanded Universes | Faber & Faber | |||
Susan Wicks | The Clever Daughter | Faber & Faber | |||
1997 | Don Paterson | God's Gift to Women | Faber & Faber | Won | [7] |
Fleur Adcock | Looking Back | OUP / Oxford Poetry | Shortlisted | [7] | |
Gillian Allnutt | Nantucket and the Angel | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Helen Dunmore | Bestiary | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Selima Hill | Violet | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Jamie McKendrick | The Marble Fly | OUP / Oxford Poetry | |||
Peter Reading | Work in Regress | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Matthew Sweeney | The Bridal Suite | Cape Poetry | |||
Derek Walcott | The Bounty | Faber & Faber | |||
John Hartley Williams | Canada | Bloodaxe Books | |||
1998 | Ted Hughes | Birthday Letters | Faber & Faber | Won | [7] |
Sarah Corbett | The Red Wardrobe | Seren Books | Shortlisted | [7] | |
Fred D'Aguiar | Bill of Rights | Chatto & Windus | |||
David Harsent | A Bird's Idea of Flight | Faber & Faber | |||
Jackie Kay | Off Colour | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Glyn Maxwell | The Breakage | Faber & Faber | |||
Paul Muldoon | Hay | Faber & Faber | |||
Ruth Padel | Rembrandt Would Have Loved You | Chatto & Windus | |||
Jo Shapcott | My Life Asleep | OUP / Oxford Poetry | |||
Ken Smith | Wild Root | Bloodaxe Books | |||
1999 | Hugo Williams | Billy's Rain | Faber & Faber | Won | [7] |
Anne Carson | Autobiography of Red | Cape Poetry | Shortlisted | [7] | |
Carol Ann Duffy | The World's Wife | Picador Poetry | |||
Paul Durcan | Greetings to our Friends in Brazil | Harvill Press | |||
Michael Hofmann | Approximately Nowhere | Faber & Faber | |||
Kathleen Jamie | Jizzen | Picador Poetry | |||
Michael Laskey | The Tightrope Wedding | Smith/Doorstop | |||
Bernard O'Donoghue | Here Nor There | Chatto & Windus | |||
Tom Paulin | The Wind Dog | Faber & Faber | |||
C. K. Williams | Repair | Bloodaxe Books |
2001 saw Canadian poet Anne Carson become the first woman to win the TS Eliot Prize.
2011 saw two shortlisted nominees, including 2002 winner Alice Oswald, withdraw their works as a protest against the sponsor.
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref |
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2010 | Derek Walcott | White Egrets | Faber & Faber | Won | [22] |
Simon Armitage | Seeing Stars | Faber & Faber | Shortlisted | [23] [24] | |
Annie Freud | The Mirabelles | Picador Poetry | |||
John Haynes | You | Seren Books | |||
Seamus Heaney | Human Chain | Faber & Faber | |||
Pascale Petit | What the Water Gave Me | Seren Books | |||
Robin Robertson | The Wrecking Light | Picador Poetry | |||
Fiona Sampson | Rough Music | Carcanet Press | |||
Brian Turner | Phantom Noise | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Sam Willetts | New Light for the Old Dark | Cape Poetry | |||
2011 | John Burnside | Black Cat Bone | Cape Poetry | Won | [25] |
Carol Ann Duffy | The Bees | Picador Poetry | Shortlisted | [26] | |
Leontia Flynn | Profit and Loss | Cape Poetry | |||
David Harsent | Night | Faber & Faber | |||
John Kinsella | Armour (withdrawn by the author in protest) [27] | Faber & Faber | |||
Esther Morgan | Grace | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Daljit Nagra | Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! | Faber & Faber | |||
Sean O'Brien | November | Picador Poetry | |||
Bernard O'Donoghue | Farmer's Cross | Faber & Faber | |||
Alice Oswald | Memorial (withdrawn by the author in protest) [28] [29] | Faber & Faber | |||
2012 | Sharon Olds | Stag's Leap | Cape Poetry | Won | [30] [31] |
Simon Armitage | The Death of King Arthur | Faber & Faber | Shortlisted | [32] | |
Sean Borodale | Bee Journal | Cape Poetry | |||
Gillian Clarke | Ice | Carcanet Press | |||
Julia Copus | The World's Two Smallest Humans | Faber & Faber | |||
Paul Farley | The Dark Film | Picador Poetry | |||
Jorie Graham | P L A C E | Carcanet Press | |||
Kathleen Jamie | The Overhaul | Picador Poetry | |||
Jacob Polley | The Havocs | Picador Poetry | |||
Deryn Rees-Jones | Burying the Wren | Seren Books | |||
2013 | Sinéad Morrissey | Parallax | Carcanet Press | Won | [33] |
Dannie Abse | Speak, Old Parrot | Hutchinson | Shortlisted | [34] [35] | |
Moniza Alvi | At the Time of Partition | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Anne Carson | Red Doc> | Cape Poetry | |||
Helen Mort | Division Street | Chatto & Windus | |||
Daljit Nagra | Ramayana: A Retelling | Faber & Faber | |||
Maurice Riordan | The Water Stealer | Faber & Faber | |||
Robin Robertson | Hill of Doors | Picador Poetry | |||
Michael Symmons Roberts | Drysalter | Cape Poetry | |||
George Szirtes | Bad Machine | Bloodaxe Books | |||
2014 | David Harsent | Fire Songs | Faber & Faber | Won | [36] |
Fiona Benson | Bright Travellers | Cape Poetry | Shortlisted | [37] | |
John Burnside | All One Breath | Cape Poetry | |||
Louise Glück | Faithful and Virtuous Night | Carcanet Press | |||
Michael Longley | The Stairwell | Cape Poetry | |||
Ruth Padel | Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth | Chatto & Windus | |||
Pascale Petit | Fauverie | Poetry Wales Press | |||
Kevin Powers | Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting | Little, Brown / Sceptre | |||
Arundhathi Subramaniam | When God is a Traveller | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Hugo Williams | I Knew the Bride | Faber & Faber | |||
2015 | Sarah Howe | Loop of Jade | Chatto & Windus | Won | [38] [39] |
Mark Doty | Deep Lane | Cape Poetry | Shortlisted | [40] | |
Tracey Herd | Not in This World | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Selima Hill | Jutland | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Tim Liardet | The World Before Snow | Carcanet Press | |||
Les Murray | Waiting for the Past | Carcanet Press | |||
Sean O'Brien | The Beautiful Librarians | Picador Poetry | |||
Don Paterson | 40 Sonnets | Faber & Faber | |||
Rebecca Perry | Beauty/Beauty | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Claudia Rankine | Citizen: An American Lyric | Penguin Poetry | |||
2016 | Jacob Polley | Jackself | Picador Poetry | Won | [41] [42] |
Rachael Boast | Void Studies | Picador Poetry | Shortlisted | [43] | |
Vahni Capildeo | Measures of Expatriation | Carcanet Press | |||
Ian Duhig | The Blind Road-Maker | Picador Poetry | |||
J. O. Morgan | Interference Pattern | Cape Poetry | |||
Bernard O'Donoghue | The Seasons of Cullen Church | Faber & Faber | |||
Alice Oswald | Falling Awake | Cape Poetry | |||
Denise Riley | Say Something Back | Picador Poetry | |||
Ruby Robinson | Every Little Sound | Pavilion / Liverpool University Press | |||
Katharine Towers | The Remedies | Picador Poetry | |||
2017 | Ocean Vuong | Night Sky with Exit Wounds | Cape Poetry | Won | [44] |
Tara Bergin | The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx | Carcanet Press | Shortlisted | [45] | |
Caroline Bird | In these Days of Prohibition | Carcanet Press | |||
Douglas Dunn | The Noise of a Fly | Faber & Faber | |||
Leontia Flynn | The Radio | Cape Poetry | |||
Roddy Lumsden | So Glad I'm Me | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Michael Symmons Roberts | Mancunia | Cape Poetry | |||
Robert Minhinnick | Diary of the Last Man | Carcanet Press | |||
James Sheard | The Abandoned Settlements | Cape Poetry | |||
Jacqueline Saphra | All My Mad Mothers | Nine Arches Press | |||
2018 | Hannah Sullivan | Three Poems | Faber & Faber | Won | [46] [47] |
Ailbhe Darcy | Insistence | Bloodaxe Books | Shortlisted | [48] | |
Terrance Hayes | American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins | Penguin Poetry | |||
Zaffar Kunial | Us | Faber & Faber | |||
Nick Laird | Feel Free | Faber & Faber | |||
Fiona Moore | The Distal Point | HappenStance | |||
Sean O'Brien | Europa | Picador Poetry | |||
Phoebe Power | Shrines of Upper Austria | Carcanet Press | |||
Richard Scott | Soho | Faber & Faber | |||
Tracy K. Smith | Wade in the Water | Penguin Poetry | |||
2019 | Roger Robinson | A Portable Paradise | Peepal Tree Press | Won | [49] |
Anthony Anaxagorou | After the Formalities | Penned in the Margins | Shortlisted | [50] | |
Fiona Benson | Vertigo and Ghost | Cape Poetry | |||
Jay Bernard | Surge | Chatto & Windus | |||
Paul Farley | The Mizzy | Picador Poetry | |||
Ilya Kaminsky | Deaf Republic | Faber & Faber | |||
Sharon Olds | Arias | Cape Poetry | |||
Vidyan Ravinthiran | The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here | Bloodaxe Books | |||
Deryn Rees-Jones | Erato | Seren Books | |||
Karen Solie | The Caiplie Caves | Picador Poetry |
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