T. S. Eliot Prize

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The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded to 'the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland' in any particular year. The Prize was launched in 1993 to celebrate the Poetry Book Society's 40th birthday and to honour its founding poet, T. S. Eliot.

The £10,000 prize money is donated by Eliot's widow, Mrs Valerie Eliot.

According to the Poetry Book Society's Web page for the award: "The judges will make their final decision on Monday 15 January 2007, when the prize of £10,000 will be presented by Mrs Valerie Eliot at an award ceremony in London."^[1]

Truman State University Press in Missouri also gives out a "T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry" which appears to have no relation to the British prize.^[2]

1 List of Winners
2 Shortlists
3 See also
4 Notes
5 External links

[edit] List of Winners

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

[edit] Shortlists

2006 - Simon Armitage, Tyrannosaurus Rex versus the Corduroy Kid. Paul Farley, Tramp in Flames. Seamus Heaney, District and Circle. W N Herbert, Bad Shaman Blues. Jane Hirshfield, After. Tim Liardet, The Blood Choir. Paul Muldoon, Horse Latitudes. Robin Robertson, Swithering. Penelope Shuttle, Redgrove's Wife. Hugo Williams, Dear Room.

2005 - Polly Clark, Take Me with You. Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture. Helen Farish, Intimates. David Harsent, Legion. Sinead Morrissey, The State of the Prisons. Alice Oswald, Woods etc. Pascale Petit, The Huntress. Sheenagh Pugh, The Movement of Bodies. John Stammers, Stolen Love Behaviour. Gerard Woodward, We Were Pedestrians.

2004 - Colette Bryce, The Full Indian Rope Trick. Kathryn Gray, The Never Never, Kathleen Jamie, The Tree House. Michael Longley, Snow Water, Ruth Padel, The Soho Leopard, Tom Paulin, The Road to Inver. Peter Porter, Afterburner. Michael Symmons Roberts, Corpus. George Szirtes, Reel. John Hartley Williams. Blues.

2003 - Billy Collins, Nine Horses. John F Deane, Manhandling the Deity. Ian Duhig, The Lammas Hireling. Lavinia Greenlaw, Minsk. Jamie McKendrick, Ink Stone. Bernard O'Donoghue, Outiving. Don Paterson, Landing Light. Jacob Polley, The Brink. Christopher Reid, For and After.Jean Sprackland, Hard Water.

2002 - Simon Armitage, The Universal Home Doctor. John Burnside, The Light Trap. Paul Farley, The Ice Age. David Harsent, Marriage. Geoffrey Hill, The Orchards of Syon. E. A. Markham, A Rough Climate. Sinead Morrissey, Between Here and There. Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel. Alice Oswald, Dart. Ruth Padel, Voodoo Shop.

2001 - Gillian Allnutt, Lintel. Charles Boyle, The Age of Cardboard and String. Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband. Seamus Heaney, Electric Light. Geoffrey Hill - Speech! Speech!. Selima Hill, Bunny. James Lasdun, Landscape with Chainsaw. Sean O'Brien, Downriver. Pascale Petit, The Zoo Father. Michael Symmons Roberts, Burning Babylon.