Congratulations to Sean O'Brien for winning the T S Eliot Prize 2007 for The Drowned Book (Picador).

 

This other poets on the shortlist were:

Ian Duhig for The Speed of Dark (Picador)
Alan Gillis for Hawks and Doves (Gallery)
Sophie Hannah for Pessimism for Beginners (Carcanet)
Mimi Khalvati for The Meanest Flower (Carcanet)
Frances Leviston for Public Dream (Picador)
Sarah Maguire for The Pomegranates of Kandahar (Chatto)
Edwin Morgan for A Book of Lives (Carcanet)
Fiona Sampson for Common Prayer (Carcanet)
Matthew Sweeney for Black Moon (Jonathan Cape)

 

The winner of the T S Eliot Prize 2007 was announced at the awards ceremony at the Wallace Collection on Monday 14th January 2008.

On Sunday 13th January, the 10 poets read from their collections at a special event at the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre.

The T S Eliot Prize Shadowing Scheme, which allows students to shadow the judging process and to read and comment on excerpts from all the shortlisted collections, was won by Holly Stevenson of Dame Alice Harpur School, Beford.. Click here for more information..

The T S Eliot Prize is now the biggest cash award in UK poetry, increased from £10,000 to £15,000. In a move which was widely welcomed, each of the 10 shortlisted poets also received£1000. The £15,000 prize money was kindly donated by Eliot's widow, Mrs Valerie Eliot (pictured below).