T.S. Eliot Prize 2024 Preview Workshop with Joelle Taylor
Explore the T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist with poet, playwright, editor, and previous winner, Joelle Taylor!
The T.S. Eliot Prize kicks off the new year in poetry and awards the largest financial prize for any single-author collection, with this year’s winner receiving £25,000! Join the Poetry School for an exciting generative workshop, where we’ll explore this year’s shortlist on 12 January, 2–4.30pm with poet, playwright, editor, and T.S. Eliot Prize-winner, Joelle Taylor!
This year’s shortlisted poets are:
Raymond Antrobus (Signs, Music), Hannah Copley (Lapwing), Helen Farish (The Penny Dropping), Peter Gizzi (Fierce Elegy), Gustav Parker Hibbett (High Jump as Icarus Story), Rachel Mann (Eleanor Among the Saints), Gboyega Odubanjo (Adam), Carl Phillips (Scattered Snows, to the North), Katrina Porteous (Rhizodont), and Karen McCarthy Woolf (Top Doll).
In this preview workshop, we’ll explore what these ten collections say about the past year in poetry through collective readings and debate, before starting on new poems of our own, inspired by the shortlist. Whether you want to explore key themes or approaches found in the books, or write in opposition to them, this will be an fast-paced, stimulating, and generative session, delivering inspiration for new writing from some of the best poetry books of 2024, all under the expert guidance of a previous T.S. Eliot Prize winner.
1 x half-day session, running 2–4.30pm (GMT), on Sunday 12 January 2025. This course will take place at a central London venue & the full address will be shared with participants nearer the time.
To apply for a concession rate, please send relevant documentation showing your eligibility for one of our concessions to [email protected]. Conditions of eligibility are detailed here. More information about how our In-Person Courses work can be found on the In-Person Courses page. If you have any questions or wish to be added to the waiting list of a sold-out course, please email [email protected]. We are grateful to the T.S. Eliot Foundation for their support.
About Joelle Taylor 
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Joelle Taylor is the author of 4 collections of poetry. Her most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors. C+NTO is currently being adapted for theatre with a view to touring. She is a co- curator and host of Out-Spoken Live at the Southbank Centre, and tours her work nationally and internationally in a diverse range of venues, from Australia to Brazil. She is also a Poetry Fellow of University of East Anglia and the curator of the Koestler Awards 2023. She has judged several poetry and literary prizes including Jerwood Fellowship, the Forward Prize, and the Ondaatje Prize. Her novel of interconnecting stories The Night Alphabet was published by Riverrun in Spring of 2024. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and the 2022 Saboteur Spoken Word Artist of the Year.
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