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The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the judges for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2026. Leontia Flynn (Chair) will be joined on the panel by fellow poets Ishion Hutchinson and Daisy Lafarge. The T. S. Eliot Prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best new poetry collection written in English published in the UK and Ireland. The prize is unique in that entrants are judged by their peers; the panel always consists of established poets. Leontia Flynn said: ‘It’s an honour to chair this year’s T. S. Eliot Prize, alongside my fellow judges, esteemed poets Ishion Hutchinson and Daisy Lafarge. We look forward to encountering new work from the busy and always extraordinary world of contemporary poetry.’ For more information on this year’s Prize and the Prize’s history, visit tseliot.com/prize! Leontia Flynn, Ishion Hutchinson and Daisy Lafarge. by @tseliotprize
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We’re thrilled to announce that the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2025 is Karen Solie, for her collection Wellwater! Karen Solie by @tseliotprize
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Our first newsletter focusing on a poet from the 2026 shortlist is out! This week we’re focusing on Jorie Graham & her book Killing Spree. Find our newsletter at our profile link to read a featured poem, a brand new review, and readers’ notes! @carcanetpress Jorie Graham by @tseliotprize
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Karen Solie reads her poem 'A Trawlerman' from her collection 'The Caiplie Caves', published by Picador Poetry, and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2019. Karen won the T.S. Eliot Prize 2025, and will be reading at the Cheltenham Literary Festival on Friday 16 October (a week from today) with two-time winner Don Paterson. There are still some tickets available, go to our profile link to book now. by @tseliotprize
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Congratulations to Anne Carson, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2001 for The Beauty of the Husband, on being awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature! You can find out more about Anne Carson’s history with the T. S. Eliot Prize (she has been shortlisted four times, including her 2001 win) at our website, where you can also read a short piece she wrote for us in 2023 on her memories of the 2001 prize. Find it at our profile link! Nobel Prize illustration of Anne Carson by Niklas Elmehed by @tseliotprize
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We’re delighted to announce the T. S. Eliot Prize 2026 Shortlist! Our judges have chosen ten exciting collections that present voices of ‘linguistic disruption, personal reflection’ and ‘humorous lyricism’. Find out more at our website (at our profile link) now! by @tseliotprize
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Here are our ten wonderful poets shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2026, and their shortlisted books! We are so excited to be able to celebrate these writers and share their work with you all. Our shortlist in full: ‣ Jorie Graham, Killing Spree (Carcanet Press) ‣ Keith Jarrett, Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied (Bad Betty Press) ‣ Imani Mason Jordan, PIVOT (HELA Press) ‣ Sylvia Legris, Sleep Gate (Fitzcarraldo Editions) ‣ Shara McCallum, Behold (Peepal Tree Press) ‣ Kim Moore, The House of Broken Things (Corsair Poetry) ‣ Andrew Motion, Gravity Archives (Faber & Faber) ‣ Holly Pester, Cafés (Fitzcarraldo Editions) ‣ Jana Prikryl, The Channel (Faber & Faber) ‣ Billy Ramsell, Render (Banshee Press) Find out more at our website, which you'll find at our profile link! by @tseliotprize
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Happy National Poetry Day! Why not celebrate by getting your tickets now for our annual celebration of the best of British and Irish poetry, the prestigious T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 17 January 2027. You won’t want to miss performances from the shortlisted poets, as chosen by judges Leontia Flynn (Chair), Ishion Hutchinson and Daisy Lafarge. Masterfully hosted by Ian McMillan (BBC Radio 4’s The Verb) the evening is the best way to brighten up January and start your literary year, offering a unique encounter with contemporary poetry. You can buy tickets at our profile link! by @tseliotprize
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2025 Eliot Prize winner Karen Solie is just one of an exciting line-up set to perform as Newcastle Poetry Festival returns on 2–3 October. The theme of the eleventh festival is ‘Re-inventing North’ and Karen Solie will perform with fellow Eliot Prize poets Daljit Nagra and Sean O’Brien. There is a tremendous programme lined up at St Mary’s Heritage Centre Gateshead, including Rachael Boast, Imtiaz Dharker and Sarah Howe. Newcastle Poetry Festival also warmly invites new poets who have not yet published a pamphlet or poetry book to submit a poem for their ‘Open Mic’ session and join their free ‘Mentoring Session’ for new poets. Book your tickets and find out more by visiting the Newcastle Poetry Festival website! https://www.tickettailor.com/events/newcastlepoetryfestival/2352500 Solie, Nagra and O’Brien at the Newcastle Poetry Festival L to r: Daljit Nagra (photo © Travis Elborough), Karen Solie and Sean O’Brien 2025 Eliot Prize winner Karen Solie is just one of an exciting line-up set to perform as Newcastle Poetry Festival returns on 2–3 October. by @tseliotprize
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For a lovely Thursday afternoon, here are a couple of poems by Don Paterson and Karen Solie, from their collections God’s Gift to Women (@faberbooks) and The Caiplie Caves (@picadorbooks) respectively! Tickets are now on sale for an extra special T. S. Eliot Prize event at The Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, where Karen Solie, winner of the 2025 Prize for Wellwater, will be joined by the only poet to win the Eliot twice, Don Paterson. This is a fantastic opportunity to hear two distinctive and insightful poets who have worked closely together read from and talk about their work. The event will take place in Cheltenham Town Hall at 5pm on Friday 16 October. Tickets (£14) are on sale now. You can find where to book your ticket at our profile link! A Private Bottling So 1 will go, then. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you. Antonio Porchia Back in the same room that an hour ago we had led, lamp by lamp, into the darkness I sit down and turn the radio on low as the last girl on the planet still awake reads a dedication to the ships and puts on a recording of the ocean. I carefully arrange a chain of nips in a big fairy-ring; in each square glass the tincture of a failed geography, its dwindled burns and woodlands, whin-fires, heather, the sklent of its wind and its salty rain, the love-worn habits of its working-folk, the waveform of their speech, and by extension how they sing, make love, or take a joke. So I have a good nose for this sort of thing. Then I will suffer kiss after fierce kiss letting their gold tongues slide along my tongue as each gives up, in turn, its little song of the patient years in glass and sherry-oak, the shy negotiations with the sea, air and earth, the trick of how the peat-smoke was shut inside it, like a black thought. by @tseliotprize
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The Poetry Society and the T.S. Eliot Prize are thrilled to announce the ten reviewers selected for this year’s Young Critics Scheme. The ten Young Critics are Aisha Allinson, Jacob Burgess Rollo, Heather Chapman, Emmett Coleman, Zeinab Elnemer, Caoilfhin Foley, Florence Hall, Elsie Hayward, Tasneem Maher, and Salma Reda. We’re so excited to start working with them over the coming weeks! The cohort will attend a series of intensive online workshops in October and November 2026, including sessions with leading critics Kadish Morris and Helen Bowell. They’ll then each produce a video review of a collection shortlisted for the 2026 T.S. Eliot Prize - keep an eye on our YouTube channel later this year to see what they come up with 🌟 by @tseliotprize
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“The poems in Anne Carson’s The Beauty of the Husband have all the dramatic tension, eroticism and energy of the tango – voices dance at arms’ length as the distance between husband and wife is laid bare,” writes Young Critic Cal O’Reilly. Looking to broaden your poetry horizons? We’ve asked a handful of Young Critics Scheme alumni to dive into the T.S. Eliot Prize archives and explore winning collections from the Prize’s history. Head to Young Poets Network (link in bio) to read 2023 Young Critic Cal O’Reilly’s review of Anne Carson’s The Beauty of the Husband, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2001. Young Poets Network is The Poetry Society’s online platform for young poets up to the age of 25. Find out more at ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk The T. S. Eliot Prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best new poetry collection published in the UK and Ireland. The Prize is firmly established as the most valuable and prestigious in the UK for a new collection of poetry. Find out more at tseliot.com/prize by @tseliotprize
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