T. S. Eliot Prize

The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is 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 has been donated by Eliot's widow, Mrs Valerie Eliot. At present, the prize is £15,000, with each of nine runners-up receiving £1000 each, making it the United Kingdom's most valuable annual poetry competition. The Prize has been called "the most coveted award in poetry".

The Society selects one new collection of poetry for distribution to its members each quarter. These four volumes and six additional collections comprise the annual shortlist for the Prize. On the evening before the announcement of the Prize, the Society sponsors a public reading by the authors of the ten shortlisted volumes. 2000 people attended the 2011 reading.

List of winners

• 2014 â€" David Harsent, Fire Songs
• 2013 â€" Sinéad Morrissey, Parallax
• 2012 â€" Sharon Olds, Stag's Leap
• 2011 â€" John Burnside, Black Cat Bone
• 2010 â€" Derek Walcott, White Egrets
• 2009 â€" Philip Gross, The Water Table
• 2008 â€" Jen Hadfield, Nigh-No-Place
• 2007 â€" Sean O'Brien, The Drowned Book
• 2006 â€" Seamus Heaney, District and Circle
• 2005 â€" Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture
• 2004 â€" George Szirtes, Reel
• 2003 â€" Don Paterson, Landing Light
• 2002 â€" Alice Oswald, Dart
• 2001 â€" Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband
• 2000 â€" Michael Longley, The Weather in Japan
• 1999 â€" Hugo Williams, Billy's Rain
• 1998 â€" Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
• 1997 â€" Don Paterson, God's Gift to Women
• 1996 â€" Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems
• 1995 â€" Mark Doty, My Alexandria
• 1994 â€" Paul Muldoon, The Annals of Chile
• 1993 â€" Ciarán Carson, First Language: Poems

Shortlists

2010s

2014

• Bright Travellers by Fiona Benson
• All One Breath by John Burnside
• Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Glück
• Fire Songs by David Harsent
• The Stairwell by Michael Longley
• Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth by Ruth Padel
• Fauverie by Pascale Petit
• Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Kevin Powers
• When God is a Traveller by Arundhathi Subramaniam
• I Knew the Bride by Hugo Williams

2013

The shortlist was announced 23 October 2013.

• Speak, Old Parrot by Dannie Abse
• At the Time of Partition by Moniza Alvi
• Red Doc > by Anne Carson
• Parallax by Sinéad Morrissey
• Division Street by Helen Mort
• Ramayana: A Retelling by Daljit Nagra
• The Water Stealer by Maurice Riordan
• Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson
• Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts
• Bad Machine by George Szirtes

2012

The shortlist was announced 23 October 2012.

• The Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage
• Bee Journal by Sean Borodale
• Ice by Gillian Clarke
• The World's Two Smallest Humans by Julia Copus
• The Dark Film by Paul Farley
• P L A C E by Jorie Graham
• The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie
• Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
• The Havocs by Jacob Polley
• Burying the Wren by Deryn Rees-Jones

2011

• Memorial by Alice Oswald, Faber (withdrawn by the author in protest)
• Black Cat Bone by John Burnside
• The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy
• Profit and Loss by Leontia Flynn
• Night by David Harsent
• Armour by John Kinsella (withdrawn by the author in protest)
• Grace by Esther Morgan
• Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! by Daljit Nagra
• November by Sean O'Brien
• Farmer's Cross by Bernard O'Donoghue

2010

• Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage
• Datura and Pitia by Mahdi Reza Akhloumadi
• The Mirabelles by Annie Freud
• You by John Haynes
• Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
• What the Water Gave Me by Pascale Petit
• The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson
• Rough Music, by Fiona Sampson
• Phantom Noise by Brian Turner
• White Egrets by Derek Walcott
• New Light for the Old Dark by Sam Willetts.

2000s

2009

• The Sun-fish by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
• Continental Shelf by Fred D'Aguiar
• Over by Jane Draycott
• The Water Table by Philip Gross
• Through the Square Window by Sinéad Morrissey
• One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds
• Weeds & Wild Flowers by Alice Oswald
• A Scattering by Christopher Reid
• The Burning of the Books and Other Poems by George Szirtes
• West End Final by Hugo Williams.

2008

• Moniza Alvi, Europa
• Peter Bennet, The Glass Swarm
• Ciarán Carson, For All We Know
• Robert Crawford, Full Volume
• Maura Dooley, Life Under Water
• Mark Doty, Theories and Apparitions
• Jen Hadfield, Nigh-No-Place
• Mick Imlah, The Lost Leader
• Glyn Maxwell, Hide Now
• Stephen Romer, Yellow Studio.

2007

• Ian Duhig, The Speed of Dark
• Alan Gillis, Hawks and Doves
• Sophie Hannah, Pessimism for Beginners
• Mimi Khalvati, The Meanest Flower
• Frances Leviston, Public Dream
• Sarah Maguire, The Pomegranates of Kandahar
• Edwin Morgan, A Book of Lives
• Sean O'Brien, The Drowned Book
• Fiona Sampson, Common Prayer
• Matthew Sweeney, Black Moon

2006

• Simon Armitage, Tyrannosaurus Rex versus the Corduroy Kid
• Paul Farley, Tramp in Flames
• Seamus Heaney, District and Circle
• W. N. Herbert, Bad Shaman Blues
• Jane Hirshfield, After
• Tim Liardet, The Blood Choir
• Paul Muldoon, Horse Latitudes
• Robin Robertson, Swithering
• Penelope Shuttle, Redgrove's Wife
• Hugo Williams, Dear Room

2005

• Polly Clark, Take Me with You
• Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture
• Helen Farish, Intimates
• David Harsent, Legion
• Sinéad Morrissey, The State of the Prisons
• Alice Oswald, Woods etc
• Pascale Petit, The Huntress
• Sheenagh Pugh, The Movement of Bodies
• John Stammers, Stolen Love Behaviour
• Gerard Woodward, We Were Pedestrians

2004

• Colette Bryce, The Full Indian Rope Trick
• Kathryn Gray, The Never Never
• Kathleen Jamie, The Tree House
• Michael Longley, Snow Water
• Ruth Padel, The Soho Leopard
• Tom Paulin, The Road to Inver
• Peter Porter, Afterburner
• Michael Symmons Roberts, Corpus
• George Szirtes, Reel
• John Hartley Williams, Blues

2003

• Billy Collins, Nine Horses
• John F. Deane, Manhandling the Deity
• Ian Duhig, The Lammas Hireling
• Lavinia Greenlaw, Minsk
• Jamie McKendrick, Ink Stone
• Bernard O'Donoghue, Outiving
• Don Paterson, Landing Light
• Jacob Polley, The Brink
• Christopher Reid, For and After
• Jean Sprackland, Hard Water

2002

• Simon Armitage, The Universal Home Doctor
• John Burnside, The Light Trap
• Paul Farley, The Ice Age
• David Harsent, Marriage
• Geoffrey Hill, The Orchards of Syon
• E. A. Markham, A Rough Climate
• Sinéad Morrissey, Between Here and There
• Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel
• Alice Oswald, Dart
• Ruth Padel, Voodoo Shop

2001

• Gillian Allnutt, Lintel
• Charles Boyle, The Age of Cardboard and String
• Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband
• Seamus Heaney, Electric Light
• Geoffrey Hill â€" Speech! Speech!
• Selima Hill, Bunny
• James Lasdun, Landscape with Chainsaw
• Sean O'Brien, Downriver
• Pascale Petit, The Zoo Father
• Michael Symmons Roberts, Burning Babylon

See also

• List of British literary awards
• List of poetry awards
• List of literary awards
• English poetry
• English literature
• British literature
• Literature
• List of years in literature
• List of years in poetry

Notes

1. ^ "Rules and Conditions of Entry for the T.S. Eliot Prize". Retrieved 27 September 2007. 
2. ^ Jury, Louise (16 January 2007). "Heaney wins £10,000 TS Eliot prize". The Independent (London). 
3. ^ "More about the Prize". Poetry Book Society. Retrieved 12 March 2011. 
4. ^ "About the Poetry Book Society". Retrieved 12 March 2011. 
5. ^ Cran, Rona (27 January 2011). "Report: 2011 T.S.Eliot Prize". The Literateur. Retrieved 12 March 2011. 
6. ^ Runcie, Charlotte (24 October 2013). "TS Eliot Prize 2013: shortlist announced". The Daily Telegraph (London). 
7. ^ Alison Flood (23 October 2012). "TS Eliot prize for poetry announces 'fresh, bold' shortlist". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 23 October 2012. 
8. ^ Clark, Nick (14 January 2013). "Poet Sharon Olds scoops TS Eliot Prize for 'confessional' work about her husband's affair". The Guardian (London). 
9. ^ "Alice Oswald withdraws from TS Eliot prize in protest at sponsor Aurum", Alison Flood, The Guardian, 6 December 2011
10. ^ "TS Eliot prize: Second poet withdraws in sponsor protest" 7 December 2011 The Guardian
11. ^ "T.S. Eliot Prize 2010 Shortlist". Poetry Book Society. Archived from the original on 12 March 2011. 
12. ^ "BBC News Today â€" TS Eliot Prize 2009". BBC News. 15 January 2010. 

External links

• "The Book Club for Poetry Lovers". Poetry Book Society.