TS Eliot Poetry Award

Today Derek Walcott won the 2010 TS Eliot Poetry Award for White Egrets.

I have White Egrets, and I'll read it later this year. Has anyone read it yet?

Yes and loved it. Also read The Prodigal, which was also wonderful.

#3: Thanks! I'll look for The Prodigal, too.

I read it a couple of days before he won the prize and really enjoyed it. Made me wish he would write an autobiography. The poems are very personal and I sensed a bit of melancholy as he's looking back at his life, loves, and youth. There are several poems that are dedicated to friends that have long gone. He weaves the motif of white egrets throughout.

The Poetry Book Society announced that John Burnside has won the 2011 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry with Black Cat Bone, published by Jonathan Cape.

Weell that was a few months ago

2016 TS Eliot prize won by Jacob Polley's 'Jackself' on 17th January 2017

The shortlist was made up of the following

Void Studies by Rachael Boast
Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo
The Blind Road-Maker by Ian Duhig
Interference Pattern byJ O Morgan
The Seasons of Cullen Church by Bernard O'Donoghue
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
Say Something Back by Denise Riley
Every Little Sound by Ruby Robinson
The Remedies by Katharine Towers

To mark the 25th anniversary of the T. S. Eliot Prize, the T. S. Eliot Foundation has increased the winner’s prize money to £25,000. Judges Bill Herbert (Chair), James Lasdun and Helen Mort have chosen the shortlist from a record 154 poetry collections submitted by publishers.

Tara Bergin – The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx

Caroline Bird – In these Days of Prohibition

Douglas Dunn – The Noise of a Fly

Leontia Flynn – The Radio

Roddy Lumsden – So Glad I’m Me

Michael Symmons Roberts – Mancunia

Robert Minhinnick – Diary of the Last Man

James Sheard – The Abandoned Settlements

Jacqueline Saphra– All My Mad Mothers

Ocean Vuong – Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Ocean Vuong has won the 2017 TS Eliot Prize, for his debut collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds

2018

T. S. Eliot Prize

SHORT LIST

Insistence by Ailbhe Darcy
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins by Terrance Hayes
Us by Zaffar Kunial
Feel Free by Nick Laird
The Distal Point by Fiona Moore
Europa by Sean O’Brien
Shrines of Upper Austria by Phoebe Power
Soho by Richard Scott
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith

The winner was
Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan

The 2019 TS Eliot prize shortlist

After the Formalities by Anthony Anaxagorou
Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson
Surge by Jay Bernard
The Mizzy by Paul Farley
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
Arias by Sharon Olds
The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here by Vidyan Ravinthiran
Erato by Deryn Rees-Jones
A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson
The Caiplie Caves by Karen Solie

At £25,000, the TS Eliot is the UK’s most valuable poetry award. The winner will be announced on 13 January 2020.

The shortlist in full:

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
Deformations by Sasha Dugdale
Shine, Darling by Ella Frears
RENDANG by Will Harris
Love Minus Love by Wayne Holloway-Smith
How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil
Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge
How the Hell Are You by Glyn Maxwell
Sometimes I Never Suffered by Shane McCrae
The Martian’s Regress by JO Morgan

The T. S. Eliot Prize 2020 Winner
How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil

The T. S. Eliot Prize 2021 Winner
Joelle Taylor for C+nto & Othered Poems

The shortlist in full: 2021

All the Names Given by Raymond Antrobus
A Blood Condition by Kayo Chingonyi
Men Who Feed Pigeons by Selima Hill
Eat or We Both Starve by Victoria Kennefick
The Kids by Hannah Lowe
Ransom by Michael Symmons Roberts
single window by Daniel Sluman
C+nto & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor WINNER
A Year in the New Life by Jack Underwood
Stones: Poems by Kevin Young