WINNER
2024
2024
2024 Winner
Peter Gizzi
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2024
Peter Gizzi
Fierce Elegy
Penguin Poetry
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Young Critic Eira Murphy reviews Peter Gizzi’s Fierce Elegy
Young Critic Eira Murphy reviews Peter Gizzi’s ‘Fierce Elegy’ (Penguin Poetry), which won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024. More at tseliot.com/prize
Eira took part in the Young Critics Scheme, a joint project from the T. S. Eliot Prize and The Poetry Society. Ten 18-25 year olds were asked to review the texts on this year’s T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist, following a series of online workshops. Find out more about The Poetry Society’s opportunities for young writers at poetrysociety.org.uk/young-poets
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Nick Makoha, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 with his collection The New Carthaginians (Penguin Press), is the featured poet in this week’s Eliot Prize newsletter. The newsletter tells you about the wide range of content we have just published to help you get to know Nick and...
Natalie Shapero, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 with her collection Stay Dead (Out-Spoken Press), is the featured poet in this week’s Eliot Prize newsletter. The newsletter tells you about the wide range of content we have just published to help you get to know Natalie and her...
Isabelle Baafi, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 with her collection Chaotic Good (Faber & Faber), is the featured poet in this week’s Eliot Prize newsletter. The newsletter tells you about the wide range of content we have just published to help you get to know Isabelle and...
Paul Farley, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 with his collection When It Rained for a Million Years (Picador Poetry), is the featured poet in this week’s Eliot Prize newsletter. The newsletter tells you about the wide range of content we have just published to help you get...
Sarah Howe, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 with her collection Foretokens (Chatto & Windus), is the featured poet in this week’s Eliot Prize newsletter. The newsletter tells you about the wide range of content we have just published to help you get to know Sarah and her...
Vona Groarke, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 with her collection Infinity Pool (The Gallery Press), is the featured poet in this week’s Eliot Prize newsletter. The newsletter tells you about the wide range of content we have just published to help you get to know Vona and...
Karen Solie, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 with her collection Wellwater (Picador Poetry), is the featured poet in this week’s Eliot Prize newsletter. The newsletter tells you about the wide range of content we have just published to help you get to know Karen and her work....
Gillian Allnutt, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 with her collection Lode (Bloodaxe Books), is the featured poet in this week’s Eliot Prize newsletter. The newsletter tells you about the wide range of content we have just published to help you get to know Gillian and her work....
We’re delighted to announce the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 Shortlist, which offers ‘something for everyone’ in collections of ‘great range, suggestiveness and power’. Judges Michael Hofmann (Chair), Patience Agbabi and Niall Campbell chose the Shortlist from 177 poetry collections submitted by 64 British and Irish publishers. The diverse list...
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Over the past few years, you might have spotted a new kind of video appearing on the T. S. Eliot Prize YouTube channel and social media feeds. Appearing in December, these videos offer new perspectives on the ten titles shortlisted for that year’s T. S. Eliot Prize, voiced passionately and...
We’ve recently refreshed the T. S. Eliot Prize website, which now offers a fuller picture of all the shortlisted poets and books from across the Prize’s history. To add a new dimension to this living archive, we thought we’d highlight the incredible video and audio recordings we’ve gathered over the...
In 2023 the T. S. Eliot Prize celebrated its 30th anniversary. We marked the occasion by looking back at the collections which have won ‘the Prize poets most want to win’ (Sir Andrew Motion). When Joelle Taylor’s collection, C+nto and Othered Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize, Chair of...
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2013. This autumn the Poetry Book Society will be organising a ten-venue national tour, funded by Arts Council England, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the T. S. Eliot Prize. At...
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We are deeply saddened to share the news that Chris Holifield, Director of the Poetry Book Society 2003–16 and Director of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2016–22, died on 3 September 2025. The Directors of the T. S. Eliot Foundation write: ‘We would like to extend our deepest sympathy to...
The T. S. Eliot Prize and The Poetry Society are delighted to announce the cohort for the fourth instalment of the Young Critics Scheme. Ten young writers have been selected and will each review, in video form, one of the poetry collections shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025....
The T. S. Eliot Prize video and audio archive spans four decades and is ever expanding. Each year, following the announcement of the T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist, we invite the shortlisted poets to a filming session. We record an interview with each of them and ask them to read...
Over the past few years, you might have spotted a new kind of video appearing on the T. S. Eliot Prize YouTube channel and social media feeds. Appearing in December, these videos offer new perspectives on the ten titles shortlisted for that year’s T. S. Eliot Prize, voiced passionately and...
