T. S. Eliot Prize

British poetry prize

This article is about the prize set up and administered by the Poetry Book Society and now run by the T. S. Eliot Foundation. For the U. S. prize of the same name, see T. S. Eliot Prize (Truman State University).

Award

T. S. Eliot Prize

Awarded for| Best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland
Country| United Kingdom
Reward(s)| £25,000 GBP (winner)
£1,500 GBP (finalists)
First awarded| 1993; 31 years ago (1993)
Website| Official website

The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prize for poetry awarded by the T. S. Eliot Foundation. For many years it was awarded by the Eliots' Poetry Book Society (UK) for "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland"[1] in any particular year. The Prize was inaugurated in 1993 in celebration of the Poetry Book Society's 40th birthday and in honour of its founding poet, T. S. Eliot. Since its inception, the prize money was donated by Eliot's widow, Valerie Eliot and more recently it has been given by the T. S. Eliot Estate.

The T. S. Eliot Foundation took over the administration of the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2016, appointing as its new director Chris Holifield (formerly director of the Poetry Book Society),[2] when the former Poetry Book Society charity had to be wound up, with its book club and company name taken over by book sales agency Inpress Ltd in Newcastle. Holifield retired at the end of June 2022 after 20 years in the post, and was replaced by Mike Sims.[3] The winner now receives £25,000 and the ten shortlisted poets each receive £1,500, making it the United Kingdom's most valuable annual poetry competition. The Prize has been called "the most coveted award in poetry".[4]

The shortlist for the Prize is announced in October of each year, and the 10 shortlisted poets take part in the Readings at the Royal Festival Hall in London's Southbank Centre on the evening before the announcement of the Prize.[5] Two thousand people attended the 2011 reading.[6]

## Winners and Shortlists

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### 1990s

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Year | Author | Title  | Publisher | Result | Ref

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1993 | Ciaran Carson | First Language: Poems | Gallery Press | Won | [7]
Moniza Alvi | The Country at My Shoulder | OUP / Oxford Poetry | Shortlisted | [7]
Patricia Beer | Friend of Heraclitus | Carcanet Press
Carol Ann Duffy | Mean Time | Anvil Press
Douglas Dunn | Dante's Drum Kit | Faber & Faber
James Fenton | Out of Danger | Penguin Poetry
Stephen Knight | Flowering Limbs | Bloodaxe Books
Les Murray | Translations from the Natural World | Carcanet Press
Sharon Olds | The Father | Secker & Warburg
Don Paterson | Nil Nil | Faber & Faber
1994 | Paul Muldoon | The Annals of Chile | Faber & Faber | Won  | [7]
John Burnside | The Myth of the Twin | Cape Poetry | Shortlisted  | [7]
Eavan Boland | In a Time of Violence | Carcanet Press
W. N. Herbert | Forked Tongue | Bloodaxe Books
Kathleen Jamie | The Queen of Sheba | Bloodaxe Books
Geoffrey Lehmann | Spring Forest | Angus & Robertson
Tom Paulin | Walking a Line | Faber & Faber
Peter Porter | Millenial Fables | OUP / Oxford Poetry
Hugo Williams | Dock Leaves | OUP / Oxford Poetry
Gerard Woodward | After the Deafening | Chatto & Windus
1995 | Mark Doty | My Alexandria | Cape Poetry | Won  | [7]
Simon Armitage | The Dead Sea Poems | Faber & Faber | Shortlisted  | [7]
Ian Duhig | The Mersey Goldfish | Bloodaxe Books
Michael Longley | The Ghost Orchid | Cape Poetry
Glyn Maxwell | Rest for the Wicked | Bloodaxe Books
Bernard O'Donoghue | Gunpowder | Chatto & Windus
Katherine Pierpoint | Truffle Beds | Faber & Faber
Maurice Riordan | A Word from the Loki | Faber & Faber
Jackie Wills  | Powder Tower | Arc Poetry
Glyn Wright  | Could Have Been Funny | Spike
1996 | Les Murray | Subhuman Redneck Poems | Carcanet Press | Won  | [7]
Ciaran Carson | Opera Et Cetera | Bloodaxe Books / Gallery Press | Shortlisted  | [7]
Maura Dooley | Kissing A Bone | Bloodaxe Books
John Fuller | Stones and Fires | Chatto & Windus
Seamus Heaney | The Spirit Level | Faber & Faber
Stephen Knight | Dream City Cinema | Bloodaxe Books
Adrian Mitchell | Blue Coffee | Bloodaxe Books
Alice Oswald | The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile | OUP / Oxford Poetry
Christopher Reid | Expanded Universes | Faber & Faber
Susan Wicks | The Clever Daughter | Faber & Faber
1997 | Don Paterson | God's Gift to Women | Faber & Faber | Won  | [7]
Fleur Adcock | Looking Back | OUP / Oxford Poetry | Shortlisted  | [7]
Gillian Allnutt | Nantucket and the Angel | Bloodaxe Books
Helen Dunmore | Bestiary | Bloodaxe Books
Selima Hill | Violet | Bloodaxe Books
Jamie McKendrick | The Marble Fly | OUP / Oxford Poetry
Peter Reading | Work in Regress | Bloodaxe Books
Matthew Sweeney | The Bridal Suite | Cape Poetry
Derek Walcott | The Bounty | Faber & Faber
John Hartley Williams | Canada | Bloodaxe Books
1998 | Ted Hughes | Birthday Letters | Faber & Faber | Won  | [7]
Sarah Corbett | The Red Wardrobe | Seren Books | Shortlisted  | [7]
Fred D'Aguiar | Bill of Rights | Chatto & Windus
David Harsent | A Bird's Idea of Flight | Faber & Faber
Jackie Kay | Off Colour | Bloodaxe Books
Glyn Maxwell | The Breakage | Faber & Faber
Paul Muldoon | Hay | Faber & Faber
Ruth Padel | Rembrandt Would Have Loved You | Chatto & Windus
Jo Shapcott | My Life Asleep | OUP / Oxford Poetry
Ken Smith | Wild Root | Bloodaxe Books
1999 | Hugo Williams | Billy's Rain | Faber & Faber | Won  | [7]
Anne Carson | Autobiography of Red | Cape Poetry | Shortlisted  | [7]
Carol Ann Duffy | The World's Wife | Picador Poetry
Paul Durcan | Greetings to our Friends in Brazil | Harvill Press
Michael Hofmann | Approximately Nowhere | Faber & Faber
Kathleen Jamie | Jizzen | Picador Poetry
Michael Laskey | The Tightrope Wedding | Smith/Doorstop
Bernard O'Donoghue | Here Nor There | Chatto & Windus
Tom Paulin | The Wind Dog | Faber & Faber
C. K. Williams | Repair | Bloodaxe Books

### 2000s

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2001 saw Canadian poet Anne Carson become the first woman to win the TS Eliot Prize.

Year | Author | Title  | Publisher | Result | Ref

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2000 | Michael Longley | The Weather in Japan | Cape Poetry | Won | [7]
John Burnside | The Asylum Dance | Cape Poetry | Shortlisted | [7]
Anne Carson | Men in the Off Hours | Cape Poetry
Michael Donaghy | Conjure | Picador Poetry
Douglas Dunn | The Year's Afternoon | Faber & Faber
Thom Gunn | Boss Cupid | Faber & Faber
Alan Jenkins | The Drift | Chatto & Windus
Roddy Lumsden | The Book of Love | Bloodaxe Books
Anne Stevenson | Granny Scarecrow | Bloodaxe Books
Derek Walcott | Tiepolo's Hound | Faber & Faber
2001 | Anne Carson | The Beauty of the Husband | Cape Poetry | Won | [8]
Gillian Allnutt | Lintel | Bloodaxe Books | Shortlisted | [7]
Charles Boyle | The Age of Cardboard and String | Faber & Faber
Seamus Heaney | Electric Light | Faber & Faber
Geoffrey Hill | Speech! Speech! | Penguin Poetry
Selima Hill | Bunny | Bloodaxe Books
James Lasdun | Landscape with Chainsaw | Cape Poetry
Sean O'Brien | Downriver | Picador Poetry
Pascale Petit | The Zoo Father | Seren Books
Michael Symmons Roberts | Burning Babylon | Cape Poetry
2002 | Alice Oswald | Dart | Faber & Faber | Won | [9]
Simon Armitage | The Universal Home Doctor | Faber & Faber | Shortlisted | [9]
John Burnside | The Light Trap | Cape Poetry
Paul Farley | The Ice Age | Picador Poetry
David Harsent | Marriage | Faber & Faber
Geoffrey Hill | The Orchards of Syon | Penguin Poetry
E. A. Markham | A Rough Climate | Anvil Press
Sinéad Morrissey | Between Here and There | Carcanet Press
Paul Muldoon | Moy Sand and Gravel | Faber & Faber
Ruth Padel | Voodoo Shop | Chatto & Windus
2003 | Don Paterson | Landing Light | Faber & Faber | Won | [10]
Billy Collins | Nine Horses | Picador Poetry | Shortlisted | [11]
John F. Deane | Manhandling the Deity | Carcanet Press
Ian Duhig | The Lammas Hireling | Picador Poetry
Lavinia Greenlaw | Minsk | Faber & Faber
Jamie McKendrick | Ink Stone | Faber & Faber
Bernard O'Donoghue | Outiving | Chatto & Windus
Jacob Polley | The Brink | Picador Poetry
Christopher Reid | For and After | Faber & Faber
Jean Sprackland | Hard Water | Cape Poetry
2004 | George Szirtes | Reel | Bloodaxe Books | Won  | [7]
Colette Bryce | The Full Indian Rope Trick | Picador Poetry | Shortlisted  | [7]
Kathryn Gray | The Never-Never | Seren Books
Kathleen Jamie | The Tree House | Picador Poetry
Michael Longley | Snow Water | Cape Poetry
Ruth Padel | The Soho Leopard | Chatto & Windus
Tom Paulin | The Road to Inver | Faber & Faber
Peter Porter | Afterburner | Picador Poetry
Michael Symmons Roberts | Corpus | Cape Poetry
John Hartley Williams | Blues | Cape Poetry
2005 | Carol Ann Duffy | Rapture | Picador Poetry | Won  | [12]
Polly Clark | Take Me with You | Bloodaxe Books | Shortlisted  | [12]
Helen Farish | Intimates | Cape Poetry
David Harsent | Legion | Faber & Faber
Sinéad Morrissey | The State of the Prisons | Carcanet Press
Alice Oswald | Woods etc | Faber & Faber
Pascale Petit | The Huntress | Seren Books
Sheenagh Pugh | The Movement of Bodies | Seren Books
John Stammers | Stolen Love Behaviour | Picador Poetry
Gerard Woodward | We Were Pedestrians | Chatto & Windus
2006 | Seamus Heaney | District and Circle | Faber & Faber | Won  | [13]
Simon Armitage | Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid | Faber & Faber  | Shortlisted  | [13]
Paul Farley | Tramp in Flames | Picador Poetry
W. N. Herbert | Bad Shaman Blues | Bloodaxe Books
Jane Hirshfield | After | Bloodaxe Books
Tim Liardet | The Blood Choir | Seren Books
Paul Muldoon | Horse Latitudes | Faber & Faber
Robin Robertson | Swithering | Picador Poetry
Penelope Shuttle | Redgrove's Wife | Bloodaxe Books
Hugo Williams | Dear Room | Faber & Faber
2007 | Sean O'Brien | The Drowned Book | Picador Poetry | Won  | [14]
Ian Duhig | The Speed of Dark | Picador Poetry  | Shortlisted  | [15]
Alan Gillis  | Hawks and Doves | Gallery Press
Sophie Hannah | Pessimism for Beginners | Carcanet Press
Mimi Khalvati | The Meanest Flower | Carcanet Press
Frances Leviston | Public Dream | Picador Poetry
Sarah Maguire | The Pomegranates of Kandahar | Chatto & Windus
Edwin Morgan | A Book of Lives | Carcanet Press
Fiona Sampson | Common Prayer | Carcanet Press
Matthew Sweeney | Black Moon | Cape Poetry
2008 | Jen Hadfield | Nigh-No-Place | Bloodaxe Books | Won  | [16]
Moniza Alvi | Europa | Bloodaxe Books  | Shortlisted  | [17]
Peter Bennet | The Glass Swarm | Flambard Press
Ciarán Carson | For All We Know | Gallery Press
Robert Crawford | Full Volume | Cape Poetry
Maura Dooley | Life Under Water | Bloodaxe Books
Mark Doty | Theories and Apparitions | Cape Poetry
Mick Imlah | The Lost Leader | Faber & Faber
Glyn Maxwell | Hide Now | Picador Poetry
Stephen Romer | Yellow Studio | Carcanet Press
2009 | Philip Gross | The Water Table | Bloodaxe Books | Won  | [18][19]
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | The Sun-fish | Gallery Press | Shortlisted  | [20][21]
Fred D'Aguiar | Continental Shelf | Carcanet Press
Jane Draycott | Over | Carcanet Press
Sinéad Morrissey | Through the Square Window | Carcanet Press
Sharon Olds | One Secret Thing | Cape Poetry
Alice Oswald | Weeds & Wild Flowers | Faber & Faber
Christopher Reid | A Scattering | Areté
George Szirtes | The Burning of the Books and Other Poems | Bloodaxe Books
Hugo Williams | West End Final | Faber & Faber

### 2010s

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2011 saw two shortlisted nominees, including 2002 winner Alice Oswald, withdraw their works as a protest against the sponsor.

Year | Author | Title  | Publisher | Result | Ref

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2010 | Derek Walcott | White Egrets | Faber & Faber | Won | [22]
Simon Armitage | Seeing Stars | Faber & Faber | Shortlisted | [23][24]
Annie Freud | The Mirabelles | Picador Poetry
John Haynes | You | Seren Books
Seamus Heaney | Human Chain | Faber & Faber
Pascale Petit | What the Water Gave Me | Seren Books
Robin Robertson | The Wrecking Light | Picador Poetry
Fiona Sampson | Rough Music | Carcanet Press
Brian Turner | Phantom Noise | Bloodaxe Books
Sam Willetts | New Light for the Old Dark | Cape Poetry
2011 | John Burnside | Black Cat Bone | Cape Poetry | Won | [25]
Carol Ann Duffy | The Bees | Picador Poetry | Shortlisted | [26]
Leontia Flynn | Profit and Loss | Cape Poetry
David Harsent | Night | Faber & Faber
John Kinsella | Armour (withdrawn by the author in protest)[27] | Faber & Faber
Esther Morgan | Grace | Bloodaxe Books
Daljit Nagra | Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! | Faber & Faber
Sean O'Brien | November | Picador Poetry
Bernard O'Donoghue | Farmer's Cross | Faber & Faber
Alice Oswald | Memorial (withdrawn by the author in protest)[28][29] | Faber & Faber
2012 | Sharon Olds | Stag's Leap | Cape Poetry | Won | [30][31]
Simon Armitage | The Death of King Arthur | Faber & Faber | Shortlisted | [32]
Sean Borodale | Bee Journal | Cape Poetry
Gillian Clarke | Ice | Carcanet Press
Julia Copus | The World's Two Smallest Humans | Faber & Faber
Paul Farley | The Dark Film | Picador Poetry
Jorie Graham | P L A C E | Carcanet Press
Kathleen Jamie | The Overhaul | Picador Poetry
Jacob Polley | The Havocs | Picador Poetry
Deryn Rees-Jones | Burying the Wren | Seren Books
2013 | Sinéad Morrissey | Parallax | Carcanet Press | Won | [33]
Dannie Abse | Speak, Old Parrot | Hutchinson | Shortlisted | [34][35]
Moniza Alvi | At the Time of Partition | Bloodaxe Books
Anne Carson | Red Doc> | Cape Poetry
Helen Mort | Division Street | Chatto & Windus
Daljit Nagra | Ramayana: A Retelling | Faber & Faber
Maurice Riordan | The Water Stealer | Faber & Faber
Robin Robertson | Hill of Doors | Picador Poetry
Michael Symmons Roberts | Drysalter | Cape Poetry
George Szirtes | Bad Machine | Bloodaxe Books
2014 | David Harsent | Fire Songs | Faber & Faber | Won  | [36]
Fiona Benson | Bright Travellers | Cape Poetry | Shortlisted  | [37]
John Burnside | All One Breath | Cape Poetry
Louise Glück | Faithful and Virtuous Night | Carcanet Press
Michael Longley | The Stairwell | Cape Poetry
Ruth Padel | Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth | Chatto & Windus
Pascale Petit | Fauverie | Poetry Wales Press
Kevin Powers | Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting | Little, Brown / Sceptre
Arundhathi Subramaniam | When God is a Traveller | Bloodaxe Books
Hugo Williams | I Knew the Bride | Faber & Faber
2015 | Sarah Howe | Loop of Jade | Chatto & Windus | Won  | [38][39]
Mark Doty | Deep Lane | Cape Poetry | Shortlisted  | [40]
Tracey Herd | Not in This World | Bloodaxe Books
Selima Hill | Jutland | Bloodaxe Books
Tim Liardet | The World Before Snow | Carcanet Press
Les Murray | Waiting for the Past | Carcanet Press
Sean O'Brien | The Beautiful Librarians | Picador Poetry
Don Paterson | 40 Sonnets | Faber & Faber
Rebecca Perry | Beauty/Beauty | Bloodaxe Books
Claudia Rankine | Citizen: An American Lyric | Penguin Poetry
2016 | Jacob Polley | Jackself | Picador Poetry | Won  | [41][42]
Rachael Boast | Void Studies | Picador Poetry  | Shortlisted  | [43]
Vahni Capildeo | Measures of Expatriation | Carcanet Press
Ian Duhig | The Blind Road-Maker | Picador Poetry
J. O. Morgan | Interference Pattern | Cape Poetry
Bernard O'Donoghue | The Seasons of Cullen Church | Faber & Faber
Alice Oswald | Falling Awake | Cape Poetry
Denise Riley | Say Something Back | Picador Poetry
Ruby Robinson | Every Little Sound | Pavilion / Liverpool University Press
Katharine Towers | The Remedies | Picador Poetry
2017 | Ocean Vuong | Night Sky with Exit Wounds | Cape Poetry | Won  | [44]
Tara Bergin | The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx | Carcanet Press | Shortlisted  | [45]
Caroline Bird | In these Days of Prohibition | Carcanet Press
Douglas Dunn | The Noise of a Fly | Faber & Faber
Leontia Flynn | The Radio | Cape Poetry
Roddy Lumsden | So Glad I'm Me | Bloodaxe Books
Michael Symmons Roberts | Mancunia | Cape Poetry
Robert Minhinnick | Diary of the Last Man | Carcanet Press
James Sheard | The Abandoned Settlements | Cape Poetry
Jacqueline Saphra | All My Mad Mothers | Nine Arches Press
2018 | Hannah Sullivan | Three Poems | Faber & Faber | Won  | [46][47]
Ailbhe Darcy | Insistence | Bloodaxe Books | Shortlisted  | [48]
Terrance Hayes | American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins | Penguin Poetry
Zaffar Kunial | Us | Faber & Faber
Nick Laird | Feel Free | Faber & Faber
Fiona Moore  | The Distal Point | HappenStance
Sean O'Brien | Europa | Picador Poetry
Phoebe Power | Shrines of Upper Austria | Carcanet Press
Richard Scott  | Soho | Faber & Faber
Tracy K. Smith | Wade in the Water | Penguin Poetry
2019 | Roger Robinson | A Portable Paradise | Peepal Tree Press | Won  | [49]
Anthony Anaxagorou | After the Formalities | Penned in the Margins  | Shortlisted  | [50]
Fiona Benson | Vertigo and Ghost | Cape Poetry
Jay Bernard | Surge | Chatto & Windus
Paul Farley | The Mizzy | Picador Poetry
Ilya Kaminsky | Deaf Republic | Faber & Faber
Sharon Olds | Arias | Cape Poetry
Vidyan Ravinthiran | The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here | Bloodaxe Books
Deryn Rees-Jones | Erato | Seren Books
Karen Solie | The Caiplie Caves | Picador Poetry

### 2020s

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2020 | Bhanu Kapil | How to Wash a Heart | Pavilion Poetry | Won | [51]
Natalie Diaz | Postcolonial Love Poem | Faber & Faber | Shortlisted | [52]
Sasha Dugdale | Deformations | Carcanet Press
Ella Frears | Shine, Darling | Offord Road Books
Will Harris | RENDANG | Granta Poetry
Wayne Holloway-Smith | Love Minus Love | Bloodaxe Books
Daisy Lafarge | Life Without Air | Granta Poetry
Glyn Maxwell | How the Hell Are You | Picador Poetry
Shane McCrae | Sometimes I Never Suffered | Corsair Poetry
J. O. Morgan | The Martian's Regress | Cape Poetry
2021 | Joelle Taylor | C+nto & Othered Poems | The Westbourne Press | Won | [53][54]
Raymond Antrobus | All the Names Given | Picador Poetry | Shortlisted | [55]
Kayo Chingonyi | A Blood Condition | Chatto & Windus
Selima Hill | Men Who Feed Pigeons | Bloodaxe Books
Victoria Kennefick | Eat or We Both Starve | Carcanet Press
Hannah Lowe | The Kids | Bloodaxe Books
Michael Symmons Roberts | Ransom | Cape Poetry
Daniel Sluman | single window | Nine Arches Press
Jack Underwood | A Year in the New Life | Faber & Faber
Kevin Young | Stones | Cape Poetry
2022 | Anthony Joseph | Sonnets for Albert | Bloomsbury | Won | [56][57]
Victoria Adukwei Bulley | Quiet | Faber & Faber | Shortlisted | [58]
Fiona Benson | Ephemeron | Cape Poetry
Jemma Borg | Wilder | Pavilion Poetry
Philip Gross | The Thirteenth Angel | Bloodaxe Books
Zaffar Kunial | England's Green | Faber & Faber
Mark Pajak | Slide | Cape Poetry
James Conor Patterson | bandit country | Picador Poetry
Denise Saul | The Room Between Us | Pavilion Poetry
Yomi Sode | Manorism | Penguin
2023 | Jason Allen-Paisant | Self-Portrait as Othello | Carcanet Press | Won | [59]
Joe Carrick-Varty | More Sky | Carcanet Press | Shortlisted | [60]
Jane Clarke | A Change in the Air | Bloodaxe Books
Kit Fan | The Ink Cloud Reader | Carcanet Press
Katie Farris | Standing in the Forest of Being Alive | Pavilion Poetry / Liverpool University Press
Ishion Hutchinson | School of Instructions | Faber & Faber
Fran Lock | Hyena! | Poetry Bus Press
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | The Map of the World | Gallery Press
Sharon Olds | Balladz | Cape Poetry
Abigail Parry | I Think We're Alone Now | Bloodaxe Books
2024 | Raymond Antrobus | Signs, Music | Picador Poetry | Shortlisted  | [61]
Hannah Copley | Lapwing | Pavilion Poetry / Liverpool University Press
Helen Farish | The Penny Dropping | Bloodaxe Books
Peter Gizzi | Fierce Elegy | Penguin
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

## List of judges

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* 1993 – Peter Porter, Fleur Adcock, Edna Longley, Robert Crawford and John Lucas
* 1994 – Elaine Feinstein, Ciaran Carson, Robert Crawford, John Fuller and Candia McWilliam
* 1995 – James Fenton, Maura Dooley and Liz Lochhead
* 1996 – Andrew Motion, Helen Dunmore and Ruth Padel
* 1997 – Gillian Clarke, Sean O’Brien and Hugo Williams
* 1998 – Bernard O’Donoghue, Simon Armitage and Maura Dooley
* 1999 – Blake Morrison, Selima Hill and Jamie McKendrick
* 2000 – Paul Muldoon, Glyn Maxwell and Kathleen Jamie
* 2001 – John Burnside, Helen Dunmore and Maurice Riordan
* 2002 – Michael Longley, Fred D’Aguiar and Deryn Rees-Jones
* 2003 – David Harsent, Mimi Khalvati and George Szirtes
* 2004 – Douglas Dunn, Paul Farley and Carol Rumens
* 2005 – David Constantine, Kate Clanchy and Jane Draycott
* 2006 – Sophie Hannah, Gwyneth Lewis and Sean O'Brien
* 2007 – Sujata Bhatt, W. N. Herbert and Peter Porter
* 2008 – Lavinia Greenlaw, Tobias Hill and Andrew Motion
* 2009 – Simon Armitage, Colette Bryce and Penelope Shuttle
* 2010 – Bernardine Evaristo, Anne Stevenson and Michael Symmons Roberts
* 2011 – Gillian Clarke, Stephen Knight and Dennis O'Driscoll
* 2012 – Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Longley and David Morley
* 2013 – Imtiaz Dharker, Ian Duhig and Vicki Feaver
* 2014 – Sean Borodale, Helen Dunmore and Fiona Sampson
* 2015 – Kei Miller, Pascale Petit and Ahren Warner
* 2016 – Julia Copus, Ruth Padel and Alan Gillis
* 2017 – W. N. Herbert, James Lasdun and Helen Mort
* 2018 – Clare Pollard, Sinéad Morrissey and Daljit Nagra
* 2019 – John Burnside, Sarah Howe and Nick Makoha
* 2020 – Lavinia Greenlaw, Mona Arshi and Andrew McMillan
* 2021 – Glyn Maxwell, Caroline Bird and Zaffar Kunial
* 2022 – Jean Sprackland, Hannah Lowe and Roger Robinson
* 2023 – Paul Muldoon, Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul
* 2024 – Mimi Khalvati, Anthony Joseph and Hannah Sullivan

## See also

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* List of British literary awards
* List of poetry awards
* List of literary awards
* English poetry
* English literature
* British literature
* List of years in literature
* List of years in poetry

## References

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## External links

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* T.S. Eliot Prize website
* "The Book Club for Poetry Lovers". Poetry Book Society.

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T. S. Eliot

Bibliography

Early poems|

* "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
* "Portrait of a Lady"
* "Preludes"
* "Whispers of Immortality"
* "Gerontion"
* The Waste Land
* The Hollow Men
* Ash Wednesday
* Ariel Poems
* "Journey of the Magi"
* "A Song for Simeon"

Later poems|

* Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
* "The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles"
* "Gus: The Theatre Cat"
* "Growltiger's Last Stand"
* "The Naming of Cats"
* Burnt Norton
* East Coker
* The Dry Salvages
* Little Gidding
* Four Quartets

Plays|

* Sweeney Agonistes
* The Rock
* Murder in the Cathedral
* The Family Reunion
* The Cocktail Party
* The Confidential Clerk
* The Elder Statesman

Prose|

* Selected Essays, 1917–1932
* "Hamlet and His Problems"
* "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
* The Sacred Wood
* A Choice of Kipling's Verse (1941)
* "The Frontiers of Criticism"

Adaptations|

* Murder in the Cathedral (film)
* Assassinio nella cattedrale (opera)
* Murder in the Cathedral (TV play)
* Canticle IV: The Journey of the Magi
* Cats
* 1981 musical
* 1998 film
* 2019 film

Publishing|

* The Criterion
* Faber and Faber
* T. S. Eliot Prize
* T. S. Eliot Prize (Truman State University)

Related|

* Portrait of T. S. Eliot
* Tom & Viv (1984 play, 1994 film)

People|

* Eliot family
* Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (first wife)
* Valerie Eliot (second wife)
* Henry Ware Eliot (father)
* Charlotte Champe Stearns (mother)
* William Greenleaf Eliot (grandfather)
* E. Martin Browne
* Emily Hale
* John Davy Hayward
* Ezra Pound
* Jean Jules Verdenal
* William Butler Yeats

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