T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes 2025
Jamie McKendrick on Tom Paulin – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Jamie McKendrick on Tom Paulin‘s collection Namanlagh. A Sparer Idiom In the days when poetry workshops were rare and when no…
Jamie McKendrick
Isabelle Baafi – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Isabelle Baafi on her collection Chaotic Good. Pearls of Wisdom A poetry collection is the result of more than one person’s…
Isabelle Baafi
Sarah Howe – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Sarah Howe on her collection Foretokens. Note to Self Foretokens is my second book of poems, and it took ten years…
Sarah Howe
Catherine-Esther Cowie – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Catherine-Esther Cowie on her collection Heirloom. A Break from Words During the height of Covid-19, I had just finished my MFA…
Catherine-Esther Cowie
Nick Makoha – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Nick Makoha on his collection The New Carthaginians. Blurring the Boundary Esther Kondo Heller said The New Carthaginians breaks the conventions…
Nick Makoha
Gillian Allnutt – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Gillian Allnut on her collection Lode. Finding Forms ‘I love this poor earth for I have known no other’ is, as…
Gillian Allnutt
Natalie Shapero – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Natalie Shapero on her collection Stay Dead. The Way Out Something I get asked a lot is whether my poems are…
Natalie Shapero
Vona Groarke – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Vona Groarke on her collection Infinity Pool. Floaters & Flashes I’m deeply suspicious of the term ‘my practice’ when used by…
Vona Groarke