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Here are our ten wonderful shortlisted poets for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024, and their shortlisted books! We are so thrilled to be able to celebrate these writers and share their work with you all.

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...and the winner of this year's T. S. Eliot Prize is Roger Robinson with 'A Portable Paradise', published by Peepal Tree Press @peepaltreepress . Congratulations!! #tseliotprize

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...and the winner of this year's T. S. Eliot Prize is Joelle Taylor for Cunto & Othered Poems, published by The Westbourne Press. Huge congratulations to poet and publisher!

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The winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2023 is Jason Allen-Paisant, for Self-Portrait as Othello!

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Congratulations again to Joelle and all at The Westbourne Press for winning the 2021 T. S. Eliot Prize! A memorable evening.

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Here's the fabulous T. S. Eliot 2020 shortlist: Natalie Diaz, Sasha Dugdale , Ella Frears, Will Harris, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Bhanu Kapil, Daisy Lafarge, Glyn Maxwell, Shane McCrae and J O Morgan.

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The Shortlist for the 2021 T. S. Eliot Prize has been announced!

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Here’s the fabulous 2019 T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist, which is extremely varied and diverse: Anthony Anaxagorou, Fiona Benson, Jay Bernard, Paul Farley, Ilya Kaminsky, Sharon Olds, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Deryn Rees-Jones, Roger Robinson and Karen Solie.

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And the winner of this year's #TSEliotprize is... Ocean Vuong's 'Night Sky with Exit Wounds', published by @JonathanCape ! Congratulations Ocean!

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And the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2018 is... Hannah Sullivan with 'Three Poems', published by @FaberBooks Congratulations to Hannah and all at Faber! #TSEliotPrize

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We are thrilled to announce this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist! Ten excitting, fantastic titles selected from a record 201 poetry collections submitted by British and Irish publishers. Read more here!:

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The cat is out the bag! And the winner of the #TSEliotPrize is… Bhanu Kapil for ‘How to Wash a Heart’ ( @PavilionPoetry )! Congratulations!!

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2020 T. S. Eliot Prize winner Roger Robinson has won the Ondaatje Prize, only the second poet to do so in 16 years

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"Shot through though they are with images of grief, migration, and conflict, they are nonetheless imbued with energy and joy." We are thrilled to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist! Find out more and see the full list on our website now:

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More on this year's ten shortlisted poets here: Congratulations to all the poets and publishers shortlisted, and thanks to everyone who submitted this year!

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The winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2022 is Sonnets for Albert by @adjoseph !

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A mighty small press! Congratulations to Bhanu and Pavilion🎉🥳

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We're ecstatic to share that How To Wash A Heart by Bhanu Kapil has won the T.S. Eliot Prize 2020!! @tseliotprize

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A hugely touching moment as Glyn and Joelle embrace

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We're delighted to announce the three judges for the 2021 T. S. Eliot Prize. The chair will be Glyn Maxwell, alongside Caroline Bird and Zaffar Kunial. The call for submissions will go out in late June.

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Just released, this year's fabulous T S Eliot Prize shortlist. Congratulations to all the poets and publishers!

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Many congratulations to winner Bhanu Kapil and to the nine other poets on the T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist. Brilliant readings last night are still available at

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Chair of Judges Glyn Maxwell called Joelle's collection "a blazing book of rage and light"

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Here are our ten fantastic shortlisted poets for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023, in our 30th anniversary year. Congratulations to the poets on their wonderful books, which we are so excited to celebrate with you all!

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Make a date for tonight at 10pm when you can catch the T. S Eliot Prize Readings on BBC Radio 3's The Verb, when the inimitable Ian McMillan celebrates the shortlisted poets.

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The T. S. Eliot Prize Readings will be combined with the chair of the judges’ announcement of the winner in a fabulous streamed event hosted by Ian McMillan at 7pm on Sunday 24 January. Get your ticket now: @southbankcentre @IMcMillan

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The T. S. Eliot Foundation has just announced that the judges for the 2022 T. S. Eliot Prize will be Jean Sprackland (chair), Hannah Lowe and Roger Robinson. The prize is awarded to the best poetry collection published in the UK or Ireland in 2022.

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Jason accepted the prize by reading from his book, and by speaking against the war in Gaza, which has preoccupied him and many of us over these last few months.

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Today's the day! Tonight at 7pm you can hear the brilliant poets on this year's fabulous shortlist. The T. S Eliot Prize Readings is in the Royal Festival Hall and available as a livestream

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We're delighted to announce the brilliant judging panel for the 2020 T. S. Eliot Prize, Chair Lavinia Greenlaw, Mona Arshi and Andrew McMillan

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Chis Holifield is retiring after 20 years of running the prestigious T. S. Eliot Prize and Mike Sims, well-known in the poetry world as Publishing Manager of the Poetry Society, will join as Director on 1 June. @abosimian

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The audio version of the T. S. Eliot Prize Readings is available now on our Youtube site

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The winner of this year's #TSEliotPrize will be announced at 730pm tonight - in the meantime, here's the audio from last night's Readings at the Southbank Centre

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Many congratulations to T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted Hannah Lowe for winning the Costa Poetry Award

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Roger Robinson, winner of the 2019 T. S. Eliot Prize

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Now's the chance to catch up on the ten wonderful books on the 2021 T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist.

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Here's the fabulous shortlist for the 2021 T. S. Eliot Prize . Sign up for the newsletter to find out about the poets as we profile them week by week and release new videos, reviews and readers' notes.

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"We are both Poets Or one of us is. It doesn’t matter to me What this person does For a living Or who they are Inside gender’s Hall. Light a candle, beloved, And lay me down On the forest floor. Am I your queen?" - from the 2020 #TSEliotPrize winner Bhanu Kapil

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‘I don’t want to beautify our collective trauma’ - Bhanu Kapil reads from our PBS Summer Choice How To Wash A Heart at #TSEliotprize >

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Get your tickets now for the Readings by the T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted poets. 7pm on 9 January in the Royal Festival Hall and streamed simultaneously.

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That's all for tonight! Thanks to the brilliant poets, their publishers, Southbank Centre, Ian McMillan, and all of you who watched, tweeted and read poetry from this year’s shortlist. We’ll be back with the winner tomorrow night.

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Brilliant interview with Joelle Taylor on Front Row

Front Row - Winner of TS Elliot Prize for Poetry, Unboxed, Folk at the Hampstead Theatre - BBC...

Joelle Taylor fresh from winning the 2021 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry.

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Delighted to announce a terrific judging panel for the 2019 T. S. Eliot Prize - John Burnside to chair. alongside Sarah Howe and Nick Makoha

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If you’ve not been able to make it to @southbankcentre tonight, remember you can watch video readings and interviews from all shortlisted poets at

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We'll be announcing the winner of this year's prize at 7:30pm so stay tuned...

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New poem videos just released from the T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted poets

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This year's theme for #NationalPoetryDay is The Environment, and so it seems the perfect time to share and celebrate this poem from @rrobinson72 's collection A Portable Paradise, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2019.

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We'd like to thank all the poets and publishers who submitted a collection this year, it was a challenging year generally but an amazing year for poetry.

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These are the 10 wonderful collections the shortlisted poets will be reading from at the year's biggest poetry event, the T. S Eliot Prize Readings in the Royal Festival Hall and as a livestream

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As the T. S. Eliot Prize celebrates its 30th anniversary, the T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce that the 2023 judges are Paul Muldoon (Chair), Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul. The prize is awarded to the best poetry collection published in the UK or Ireland in 2023.

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Victoria Kennefick reads from Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet).Rebecca Goss says she “writes with fresh urgency,giving us poems that are honest and fearless…[she] is unafraid to explore bereavement,sex and the female body in her poetry.She writes with a visceral originality.”

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Wonderful interview with @jallenpaisant in the Guardian, in which he discusses winning the T. S. Eliot Prize and much more, including what he’s working on now. Make sure to read!:

‘It was a real trauma’: the TS Eliot poetry prize winner on his turbulent upbringing

He grew up in Jamaica, thinking his grandmother was his mother, learning how to read from a blackboard on her veranda. What does Jason Allen-Paisant plan to do now? Fly to Ethiopia to meet his father...

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We hope you’ve enjoyed this year’s Readings, wherever you’re watching from. For even more from our shortlisted poets, our poets’ videos are up on YouTube:

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Book this – the sensational @JTaylorTrash , T. S. Eliot Prize 2021 winner, reading with guest @olliecmoneill @CheltLitFest , Thu 13 October. Look out for other Eliot events! @PoetrySociety @BarbicanPoets @Outspoken_Press @SaqiBooks

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If you haven’t been able to make it to @southbankcentre tonight, we have videos of each shortlisted poet reading and discussing their work on our YouTube channel

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Intense, uplifting and profound, with content that can present challenging content and themes, the T. S. Eliot Prize YouTube channel showcases readings and performances by T. S. Eliot Prize winners...

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Raymond signs off by saying "it's a privilege to be heard". He reads the poem 'For Tyrone Givens', about a friend who took his own life.

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Tune in to @BBCFrontRow on Radio 4 at 7:15 tonight to hear from Anthony Joseph, talking all about his T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection Sonnets for Albert! @adjoseph @BloomsburyBooks

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The T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings are tomorrow night, 7pm, at @southbankcentre and streaming online. Get ready and buy your tickets now if you haven’t already!

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The fabulous T S Eliot Prize Readings, with Tara Bergin, Caroline Bird, Douglas Dunn, Leontia Flynn, Roddy Lumsden, Michael Symmons Roberts, Robert Minhinnick, James Sheard, Jacqueline Saphra and Ocean Vuong. Sunday 14 Jan .

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The audio version of the T. S. Eliot Prize Readings is now up on our YouTube site at

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Final release of new readings from T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted poets! Our YouTube page now has another video from each poet on this year's Shortlist, so there's an interview and three poems from each incredible poet. All 40 videos are on a handy playlist

T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist 2017

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Get your tickets now to hear the wonderful shortlisted poets reading at the fabulous T. S. Eliot Prize Readings at the RFH on 9 January

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A passionate, thought-provoking and charged performance from Joelle Taylor.

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We are delighted with our shortlist,while lamenting all the fine work we had to set aside. Poetry styles are as disparate as I’ve ever known them,and the wider world as threatened and bewildered as any of us can remember. Out of this we have chosen ten books that sound clear.. 2/

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The winner of this year's #TSEliotprize will be announced at 7:30pm tonight! In the meantime you can catch up with last night's amazing readings @southbankcentre 's Royal Festival Hall here:

T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings 2017

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Superb coverage of the T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist at . Don't miss the Shortlist Readings on Sunday! …

Get to know the poets in the running for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize

Start your new year with some creative inspiration from all the best words in their best order

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Less than a week to go to the fabulous T. S Eliot Prize Readings in the Royal Festival Hall and as a livestream Get your tickets now!

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Coming up soon - the T. S. Eliot Prize Readings and the announcement of the winner - an unmissable chance to hear these ten brilliant poets, hosted by Ian McMillan at 7pm on Sunday 24 January. Tickets from: @southbankcentre @IMcMillan

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Many congratulations again to Hannah Sullivan and @FaberBooks for her wonderful collection winning the T. S. Eliot Prize.

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Live Guest Reading and interactive Q & A with 2019 T. S. Eliot Prize winner Roger Robinson on Wednesday 6 May at 7:15 pm BST from Arvon

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Joelle Taylor reads next – her shortlisted collection Cunto and Othered Poems, published by Westbourne Press, enters into the private lives of women from the butch counterculture, telling the inside story of the protests they led in the ‘90s to reclaim their bodies as their own.

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Only one day to go to the year's biggest poetry event! Get your tickets to hear the brilliant poets on this year's eclectic shortlist. The T. S Eliot Prize Readings in the Royal Festival Hall and as a livestream

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T. S. Eliot prizewinner Bhanu Kapil's publisher Deryn Rees-Jones on building a poetry list

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Each poet will be reading for 8 'poetry minutes', which as we all know, last longer than your standard minutes

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Poetry Powerhouses by Andrew McMillan: 'What if the Forwards or the Eliots were given out in Grimsby, or Scarborough? What aspiring writers might then be able to attend... and then what new voices would we hear?'

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Planning to catch up on the T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted collections? Our readers' notes are at

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Many congratulations to all the wonderful poets and publishers shortlisted, and thanks to all who submitted... See you next year!

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Don't miss T. S. Eliot prizewinner Bhanu Kapil on Front Row tonight from 7.15

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It's the T. S. Eliot Prize's 30th anniversary this year & we're celebrating past winning collections! Joelle Taylor won the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021 for C+nto & Othered Poems. Joelle has reflected for us on winning the Prize - read her full piece now:

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Today we release Natalie Diaz's brilliant videos, including a great interview of her talking about Postcolonial Love Poem

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Tune in to Radio 3 tonight at 10pm to catch The Verb, with the inimitable Ian McMillan presenting a special version of the T. S. Eliot Prize Readings with all ten shortlisted poets - or catch it on BBC Sounds

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You can now listen to Sunday's fabulous T S Eliot Prize Readings at the Southbank

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Anthony Anaxagorou, Fiona Benson, Jay Bernard, Paul Farley, Ilya Kaminsky, Sharon Olds, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Deryn Rees-Jones, Roger Robinson and Karen Solie - all at the fantastic T. S. Prize Shortlist Readings in the Royal Festival Hall on 12 January.

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Here's an interview with shortlisted debut poet Victoria Kennefick and two poems from her collection Eat Or We Both Starve and

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We're about to get underway with the speeches here at the Wallace Collection

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Tickets are selling fast for the fantastic @tseliotprize Readings on 13 Jan. All 10 poets will read: Ailbhe Darcy, Terrance Hayes, Zaffar Kunial, Nick Laird, Fiona Moore, Sean O’Brien, Phoebe Power, Richard Scott, Tracy K Smith & Hannah Sullivan

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Tonight on Radio 3 you can hear Ian McMillan's celebration of remarkable poets and poetry as he presents readings from collections shortlisted for the 2020 T.S. Eliot Prize on The Verb at 10pm and afterwards on the IPlayer

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The complete audio version of the T. S. Eliot Prize Readings is available now on our YouTube site

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Roger Robinson & Jean Sprackland, two of this year's T.S. Eliot Prize judges, will be on @BBCFrontRow tonight talking about contemporary poetry, and what they learned from reading 200+ books as part of the judging process! Make sure you listen from 7:15pm

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Denise Saul is reading from her Eliot Prize shortlisted collection The Room Between Us on @BBCFrontRow tonight, the second in a series of poems read on air by this year’s shortlisted poets! Tune in to Radio 4 now to make sure you hear her. @PavilionPoetry @DeniseSaul

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Did you know thast we have videos on our YouTube page of all ten of this year's shortlisted poets, reading from their collections and discussing their work? You can find all of the videos online here:

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Great judging panel for T S Eliot Prize 2018, to be be chaired by Sinéad Morrissey, alongside poets Daljit Nagra and Clare Pollard.

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Book now for the T. S. Eliot Prize Readings and the announcement of the winner - an unmissable chance to hear these ten brilliant poets, hosted by Ian McMillan at 7pm on Sunday 24 January. Tickets from: @southbankcentre @IMcMillan

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If you're watching online, let us know - enjoy the show! #tseliotprize

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Daniel Sluman next - his 3rd book, single window, is a hybrid memoir of poetry and photography, published by Nine Arches Press. One an amputee with chronic pain,the other suffering from Crohn’s Disease and Fibromyalgia,this collection is Daniel and his wife Emily's story.

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“I’d describe my practice, such as it is, as feral: that is omnivorous, opportunistic, accretive and excessive” T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted poet Fran Lock has written some Writers’ Notes for the Poetry School, based on her shortlisted collection Hyena!

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Tonight we'll announce who the judges have chosen for the 2021 T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist at the Cheltenham Literature Festival! Sign up for our weekly newsletter which will profile the ten poets one by one, releasing new videos and reviews.

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The winner of this year's #tseliotprize will be announced at 730pm - stay tuned...

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“I’m so sorry - so I said what are you sorry for? I want to see my son - stammer, stammer, they say they don’t think it is a good idea - I said, I am your father - I said, I said, I am your father your father - I want to see you” - Jay Bernard reads from Surge

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The judges of this year's T. S. Eliot Prize, Sinéad Morrissey, Daljit Nagra and Clare Pollard, had a very difficult choice to make yesterday. Read Sinéad's speech in full at

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Catch up with all the shortlisted poets' videos released to date on our YouTube page

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Tonight’s event is tinged with a lot of sadness on hearing of the passing of Roddy Lumsden this weekend. An exceptional poet and a - perhaps even more - exceptional champion of poets and poetry. He will be greatly missed.

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Drumroll please… the Shortlist Readings start in just over half an hour!

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