T. S. Eliot Prize

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T. S. Eliot Prize
Awarded forBest collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland
CountryUnited Kingdom
Reward(s)£25,000 GBP (winner)
£1,500 GBP (finalists)
First awarded1993;32 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) 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.

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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]

Winners and Shortlists

1990s

YearAuthorTitlePublisherResultRef
1993 Ciaran Carson First Language: PoemsGallery PressWon [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 WorldCarcanet Press
Sharon Olds The Father Secker & Warburg
Don Paterson Nil NilFaber & 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 ShebaBloodaxe Books
Geoffrey Lehmann Spring Forest Angus & Robertson
Tom Paulin Walking a Line Faber & Faber
Peter Porter Millenial Fables OUP / Oxford Poetry
Hugo Williams Dock LeavesOUP / 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 OrchidCape Poetry
Glyn Maxwell Rest for the WickedBloodaxe Books
Bernard O'Donoghue Gunpowder Chatto & Windus
Katherine Pierpoint Truffle BedsFaber & Faber
Maurice Riordan A Word from the LokiFaber & Faber
Jackie WillsPowder Tower Arc Poetry
Glyn WrightCould Have Been FunnySpike
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 BoneBloodaxe Books
John Fuller Stones and Fires Chatto & Windus
Seamus Heaney The Spirit Level Faber & Faber
Stephen Knight Dream City CinemaBloodaxe Books
Adrian Mitchell Blue CoffeeBloodaxe Books
Alice Oswald The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile OUP / Oxford Poetry
Christopher Reid Expanded UniversesFaber & Faber
Susan Wicks The Clever DaughterFaber & 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 BestiaryBloodaxe Books
Selima Hill VioletBloodaxe Books
Jamie McKendrick The Marble FlyOUP / Oxford Poetry
Peter Reading Work in RegressBloodaxe Books
Matthew Sweeney The Bridal Suite Cape Poetry
Derek Walcott The BountyFaber & Faber
John Hartley Williams CanadaBloodaxe 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 FlightFaber & Faber
Jackie Kay Off Colour Bloodaxe Books
Glyn Maxwell The BreakageFaber & Faber
Paul Muldoon HayFaber & Faber
Ruth Padel Rembrandt Would Have Loved YouChatto & Windus
Jo Shapcott My Life Asleep OUP / Oxford Poetry
Ken Smith Wild RootBloodaxe 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 NowhereFaber & Faber
Kathleen Jamie JizzenPicador Poetry
Michael Laskey The Tightrope WeddingSmith/Doorstop
Bernard O'Donoghue Here Nor There Chatto & Windus
Tom Paulin The Wind DogFaber & Faber
C. K. Williams Repair Bloodaxe Books

2000s

2001 saw Canadian poet Anne Carson become the first woman to win the TS Eliot Prize.

YearAuthorTitlePublisherResultRef
2000 Michael Longley The Weather in Japan Cape Poetry Won [7]
John Burnside The Asylum DanceCape PoetryShortlisted [7]
Anne Carson Men in the Off Hours Cape Poetry
Michael Donaghy Conjure Picador Poetry
Douglas Dunn The Year's Afternoon Faber & Faber
Thom Gunn Boss CupidFaber & Faber
Alan Jenkins The Drift Chatto & Windus
Roddy Lumsden The Book of Love Bloodaxe Books
Anne Stevenson Granny ScarecrowBloodaxe Books
Derek Walcott Tiepolo's HoundFaber & Faber
2001 Anne Carson The Beauty of the Husband Cape Poetry Won [8]
Gillian Allnutt Lintel Bloodaxe Books Shortlisted [7]
Charles Boyle The Age of Cardboard and String Faber & Faber
Seamus Heaney Electric Light Faber & Faber
Geoffrey Hill Speech! Speech! Penguin Poetry
Selima Hill BunnyBloodaxe Books
James Lasdun Landscape with ChainsawCape Poetry
Sean O'Brien Downriver Picador Poetry
Pascale Petit The Zoo Father Seren Books
Michael Symmons Roberts Burning BabylonCape Poetry
2002 Alice Oswald Dart Faber & Faber Won [9]
Simon Armitage The Universal Home DoctorFaber & FaberShortlisted [9]
John Burnside The Light Trap Cape Poetry
Paul Farley The Ice Age Picador Poetry
David Harsent MarriageFaber & Faber
Geoffrey Hill The Orchards of Syon Penguin Poetry
E. A. Markham A Rough Climate Anvil Press
Sinéad Morrissey Between Here and There Carcanet Press
Paul Muldoon Moy Sand and GravelFaber & Faber
Ruth Padel Voodoo Shop Chatto & Windus
2003 Don Paterson Landing Light Faber & Faber Won [10]
Billy Collins Nine Horses Picador Poetry Shortlisted [11]
John F. Deane Manhandling the Deity Carcanet Press
Ian Duhig The Lammas HirelingPicador Poetry
Lavinia Greenlaw MinskFaber & Faber
Jamie McKendrick Ink StoneFaber & Faber
Bernard O'Donoghue Outiving Chatto & Windus
Jacob Polley The BrinkPicador Poetry
Christopher Reid For and AfterFaber & Faber
Jean Sprackland Hard Water Cape Poetry
2004 George Szirtes Reel Bloodaxe Books Won [7]
Colette Bryce The Full Indian Rope Trick Picador Poetry Shortlisted [7]
Kathryn Gray The Never-Never Seren Books
Kathleen Jamie The Tree HousePicador Poetry
Michael Longley Snow Water Cape Poetry
Ruth Padel The Soho Leopard Chatto & Windus
Tom Paulin The Road to InverFaber & Faber
Peter Porter AfterburnerPicador Poetry
Michael Symmons Roberts CorpusCape Poetry
John Hartley Williams BluesCape Poetry
2005 Carol Ann Duffy Rapture Picador Poetry Won [12]
Polly Clark Take Me with You Bloodaxe Books Shortlisted [12]
Helen Farish Intimates Cape Poetry
David Harsent Legion Faber & Faber
Sinéad Morrissey The State of the Prisons Carcanet Press
Alice Oswald Woods etcFaber & Faber
Pascale Petit The Huntress Seren Books
Sheenagh Pugh The Movement of BodiesSeren Books
John Stammers Stolen Love Behaviour Picador Poetry
Gerard Woodward We Were Pedestrians Chatto & Windus
2006 Seamus Heaney District and Circle Faber & Faber Won [13]
Simon Armitage Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy KidFaber & FaberShortlisted [13]
Paul Farley Tramp in Flames Picador Poetry
W. N. Herbert Bad Shaman Blues Bloodaxe Books
Jane Hirshfield AfterBloodaxe Books
Tim Liardet The Blood Choir Seren Books
Paul Muldoon Horse Latitudes Faber & Faber
Robin Robertson SwitheringPicador Poetry
Penelope Shuttle Redgrove's WifeBloodaxe Books
Hugo Williams Dear RoomFaber & Faber
2007 Sean O'Brien The Drowned Book Picador Poetry Won [14]
Ian Duhig The Speed of DarkPicador PoetryShortlisted [15]
Alan GillisHawks and Doves Gallery Press
Sophie Hannah Pessimism for Beginners Carcanet Press
Mimi Khalvati The Meanest FlowerCarcanet Press
Frances Leviston Public DreamPicador Poetry
Sarah Maguire The Pomegranates of Kandahar Chatto & Windus
Edwin Morgan A Book of LivesCarcanet Press
Fiona Sampson Common PrayerCarcanet Press
Matthew Sweeney Black Moon Cape Poetry
2008 Jen Hadfield Nigh-No-Place Bloodaxe Books Won [16]
Moniza Alvi EuropaBloodaxe BooksShortlisted [17]
Peter Bennet The Glass SwarmFlambard Press
Ciarán Carson For All We Know Gallery Press
Robert Crawford Full Volume Cape Poetry
Maura Dooley Life Under WaterBloodaxe Books
Mark Doty Theories and ApparitionsCape Poetry
Mick Imlah The Lost Leader Faber & Faber
Glyn Maxwell Hide Now Picador Poetry
Stephen Romer Yellow Studio Carcanet Press
2009 Philip Gross The Water Table Bloodaxe Books Won [18] [19]
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin The Sun-fish Gallery Press Shortlisted [20] [21]
Fred D'Aguiar Continental Shelf Carcanet Press
Jane Draycott OverCarcanet Press
Sinéad Morrissey Through the Square WindowCarcanet Press
Sharon Olds One Secret Thing Cape Poetry
Alice Oswald Weeds & Wild Flowers Faber & Faber
Christopher Reid A Scattering Areté
George Szirtes The Burning of the Books and Other PoemsBloodaxe Books
Hugo Williams West End FinalFaber & Faber

2010s

2011 saw two shortlisted nominees, including 2002 winner Alice Oswald, withdraw their works as a protest against the sponsor.

YearAuthorTitlePublisherResultRef
2010 Derek Walcott White Egrets Faber & Faber Won [22]
Simon Armitage Seeing StarsFaber & FaberShortlisted [23] [24]
Annie Freud The Mirabelles Picador Poetry
John Haynes You Seren Books
Seamus Heaney Human ChainFaber & Faber
Pascale Petit What the Water Gave MeSeren Books
Robin Robertson The Wrecking LightPicador 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 LossCape 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 NovemberPicador Poetry
Bernard O'Donoghue Farmer's CrossFaber & 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 HumansFaber & Faber
Paul Farley The Dark Film Picador Poetry
Jorie Graham P L A C ECarcanet Press
Kathleen Jamie The OverhaulPicador Poetry
Jacob Polley The HavocsPicador 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 StealerFaber & Faber
Robin Robertson Hill of Doors Picador Poetry
Michael Symmons Roberts DrysalterCape Poetry
George Szirtes Bad MachineBloodaxe Books
2014 David Harsent Fire Songs Faber & Faber Won [36]
Fiona Benson Bright Travellers Cape Poetry Shortlisted [37]
John Burnside All One BreathCape Poetry
Louise Glück Faithful and Virtuous Night Carcanet Press
Michael Longley The StairwellCape 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 BrideFaber & 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 JutlandBloodaxe Books
Tim Liardet The World Before Snow Carcanet Press
Les Murray Waiting for the PastCarcanet Press
Sean O'Brien The Beautiful Librarians Picador Poetry
Don Paterson 40 Sonnets Faber & Faber
Rebecca Perry Beauty/BeautyBloodaxe Books
Claudia Rankine Citizen: An American Lyric Penguin Poetry
2016 Jacob Polley Jackself Picador Poetry Won [41] [42]
Rachael Boast Void StudiesPicador PoetryShortlisted [43]
Vahni Capildeo Measures of Expatriation Carcanet Press
Ian Duhig The Blind Road-MakerPicador 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 BackPicador Poetry
Ruby Robinson Every Little Sound Pavilion / Liverpool University Press
Katharine Towers The RemediesPicador 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 ProhibitionCarcanet 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 MancuniaCape Poetry
Robert Minhinnick Diary of the Last ManCarcanet Press
James Sheard The Abandoned SettlementsCape Poetry
Jacqueline Saphra All My Mad MothersNine 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 UsFaber & Faber
Nick Laird Feel FreeFaber & Faber
Fiona MooreThe Distal PointHappenStance
Sean O'Brien Europa Picador Poetry
Phoebe Power Shrines of Upper Austria Carcanet Press
Richard ScottSohoFaber & Faber
Tracy K. Smith Wade in the WaterPenguin Poetry
2019 Roger Robinson A Portable Paradise Peepal Tree Press Won [49]
Anthony Anaxagorou After the FormalitiesPenned in the MarginsShortlisted [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 AriasCape Poetry
Vidyan Ravinthiran The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here Bloodaxe Books
Deryn Rees-Jones Erato Seren Books
Karen Solie The Caiplie CavesPicador Poetry

2020s

YearAuthorTitlePublisherResultRef
2020 Bhanu Kapil How to Wash a Heart Pavilion Poetry Won [51]
Natalie Diaz Postcolonial Love Poem Faber & Faber Shortlisted [52]
Sasha Dugdale Deformations Carcanet Press
Ella Frears Shine, Darling Offord Road Books
Will Harris RENDANG Granta Poetry
Wayne Holloway-Smith Love Minus Love Bloodaxe Books
Daisy Lafarge Life Without Air Granta Poetry
Glyn Maxwell How the Hell Are You Picador Poetry
Shane McCrae Sometimes I Never Suffered Corsair Poetry
J. O. Morgan The Martian's Regress Cape Poetry
2021 Joelle Taylor C+nto & Othered PoemsThe Westbourne PressWon [53] [54]
Raymond Antrobus All the Names Given Picador Poetry Shortlisted [55]
Kayo Chingonyi A Blood Condition Chatto & Windus
Selima Hill Men Who Feed Pigeons Bloodaxe Books
Victoria Kennefick Eat or We Both Starve Carcanet Press
Hannah Lowe The Kids Bloodaxe Books
Michael Symmons Roberts Ransom Cape Poetry
Daniel Sluman single window Nine Arches Press
Jack Underwood A Year in the New Life Faber & Faber
Kevin Young Stones Cape Poetry
2022 Anthony Joseph Sonnets for Albert Bloomsbury Won [56] [57]
Victoria Adukwei Bulley Quiet Faber & Faber Shortlisted [58]
Fiona Benson Ephemeron Cape Poetry
Jemma Borg Wilder Pavilion Poetry
Philip Gross The Thirteenth Angel Bloodaxe Books
Zaffar Kunial England's Green Faber & Faber
Mark Pajak Slide Cape Poetry
James Conor Patterson bandit country Picador Poetry
Denise Saul The Room Between Us Pavilion Poetry
Yomi Sode Manorism Penguin
2023 Jason Allen-Paisant Self-Portrait as Othello Carcanet Press Won [59]
Joe Carrick-Varty More SkyCarcanet PressShortlisted [60]
Jane Clarke A Change in the Air Bloodaxe Books
Kit Fan The Ink Cloud ReaderCarcanet Press
Katie Farris Standing in the Forest of Being Alive Pavilion Poetry / Liverpool University Press
Ishion Hutchinson School of Instructions Faber & Faber
Fran Lock Hyena! Poetry Bus Press
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin The Map of the World Gallery Press
Sharon Olds Balladz Cape Poetry
Abigail Parry I Think We're Alone Now Bloodaxe Books
2024 Peter Gizzi Fierce Elegy Penguin Won [61]
Raymond Antrobus Signs, Music Picador Poetry Shortlisted [62]
Hannah Copley Lapwing Pavilion Poetry / Liverpool University Press
Helen Farish The Penny Dropping Bloodaxe Books
Gustav Parker Hibbett High Jump as Icarus Story Banshee Press
Rachel Mann Eleanor Among the Saints Carcanet Press
Gboyega Odubanjo Adam Faber & Faber
Carl Phillips Scattered Snows, to the North Carcanet Press
Katrina Porteous Rhizodont Bloodaxe Books
Karen McCarthy Woolf Top Doll Dialogue Books

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