Congratulations to Philip Gross for winning
the 2009 T S Eliot Prize with The Water Table (Bloodaxe)
The other poets on the shortlist were:
The Sun-fish by Eiléan Ní Chuilleánain
Continental Shelf by Fred D'Aguiar
Over by Jane Draycott
Through the Square Window by Sinéad Morrissey
One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds
Weeds & Wild Flowers by Alice Oswald
A Scattering by Christopher Reid
The Burning of the Books and Other Poems by George Szirtes
West End Final by Hugo Williams
The winner of the 2009 T S Eliot Prize was announced
at the awards ceremony at The Wallace Collection on Monday
18th January 2009.
On Sunday 17th January, the poets read from their
collections at a special event at the Southbanks's
Queen Elizabeth Hall - one of the biggest audiences
for modern poetry in recent times. Click here to here them read from their collections.
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 Iona Singleton of South Wilts Grammar School.
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.
Read
the T S Eliot Prize guidelines here
Chair of the judges Andrew Motion said: "We are
absolutely delighted that Jen Hadfield has won this
year's T S Eliot Prize. Nigh-No-Place shows that
she is a remarkably original poet near the beginning
of what is obviously going to be a distinguished
career." |
Previous winners:
| 2008 |
Jen Hadfield |
Nigh-No-Place |
2007
|
Sean O'Brien |
The
Drowned Book |
| 2006 |
Seamus Heaney |
District
and Circle |
| 2005 |
Carol Ann Duffy |
Rapture |
| 2004 |
George Szirtes |
Reel |
| 2003 |
Don Paterson |
Landing
Light |
| 2002 |
Alice Oswald |
Dart |
| 2001 |
Anne Carson |
The
Beauty of the Husband |
| 2000 |
Michael Longley |
The
Weather in Japan |
| 1999 |
Hugo Williams |
Billy's
Rain |
| 1998 |
Ted Hughes |
Birthday
Letters |
| 1997 |
Don Paterson |
God's
Gift to Women |
| 1996 |
Les Murray |
Subhuman
Redneck Poems |
| 1995 |
Mark Doty |
My
Alexandria |
| 1994 |
Paul Muldoon |
The
Annals of Chile |
| 1993 |
Ciaran Carson |
First
Language: Poems |
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