TS Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings

Hear the best new poetry coming out of the UK and Ireland, read by the ten shortlisted poets for this year’s prize and hosted by poet Ian McMillan. 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 Leontia Flynn (Chair), Ishion Hutchinson and Daisy Lafarge. 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. Presented in collaboration with the TS Eliot Foundation