TS Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings

The TS Eliot Prize is the world’s most prestigious prize for poetry. Past winners include internationally renowned poets with established reputations, as well as newly emerging writers helping to reshape the art form.

This year, the shortlist has been chosen by judges Mimi Khalvati (Chair), Hannah Sullivan and Anthony Joseph.

The TS Eliot Prize is among the world’s most celebrated awards. Inaugurated in 1993 to celebrate the Poetry Book Society’s 40th birthday and to honour its founding poet, the prize is now awarded by the TS Eliot Foundation.

Discover the shortlist for this year’s prize:
Raymond Antrobus: Signs, Music (Picador Poetry)
Hannah Copley Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry)
Helen Farish The Penny Dropping (Bloodaxe Books)
Peter Gizzi Fierce Elegy (Penguin Poetry)
Gustav Parker Hibbett High Jump as Icarus Story (Banshee Press)
Rachel Mann Eleanor Among the Saints (Carcanet Press)
Gboyega Odubanjo Adam (Faber & Faber)
Carl Phillips Scattered Snows, to the North (Carcanet Press)
Katrina Porteous Rhizodont (Bloodaxe Books)
Karen McCarthy Woolf Top Doll (Dialogue Books)

Presented in collaboration with the TS Eliot Foundation