T S Eliot Prize Articles
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
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
Raymond Antrobus – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2024 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 Raymond Antrobus on his collection Signs, Music. I started writing Signs, Music the week I was told I was going to…
Raymond Antrobus
Abigail Parry – T.S. Eliot Writers’ Notes
Welcome to our T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 Writers’ Notes. This year, alongside the usual Readers’ Notes, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Poetry School are collaborating on a set of Writers’ Notes for the shortlisted collections. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished…
Poetry SchoolThe T S Eliot Prize – some deep reading
Tonight sees the announcement of the winner of the T S Eliot Prize, a poetry prize that draws speculation, chatter and discussion towards it like pins to a magnet. Yesterday, John Greening led a brilliant discussion event for us at Southbank Centre, cogently summing up all ten of the shortlisted collections and shepherding some great…
Julia Bird (Poetry School Staff)