T. S. Eliot Prize

T. S. Eliot Prize
Awarded forBest collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland
CountryUnited Kingdom
First awarded1993; 29 years ago (1993)
WebsiteOfficial website

The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prize that was, for many years, awarded by the Poetry Book Society (UK) to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" 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, Mrs 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), 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. At present, the prize money is £20,000, with each of nine runners-up receiving £1500 each, making it the United Kingdom's most valuable annual poetry competition. The Prize has been called "the most coveted award in poetry".

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. Two thousand people attended the 2011 reading.


List of winners

List of judges

Shortlists

2020s

2022

  • 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)
  • 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

2020

  • Deformations by Sasha Dugdale (Carcanet Press)
  • Shine, Darling by Ella Frears (Offord Road Books)
  • RENDANG by Will Harris (Granta Poetry)
  • Love Minus Love by Wayne Holloway-Smith (Bloodaxe Books)
  • How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil (Pavilion Poetry)
  • Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge (Granta Poetry)
  • How the Hell Are You by Glyn Maxwell (Picador Poetry)
  • Sometimes I Never Suffered by Shane McCrae (Corsair Poetry)
  • The Martian’s Regress by J. O. Morgan (Cape Poetry)

2010s

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

The shortlist was announced 23 October 2013.

2012

The shortlist was announced 23 October 2012.

2011

2010

2000s

2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001

See also


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