Polley wins 2016 T S Eliot Prize

In the UK, Jacob Polley has won the 2016 T S Eliot Prize for poetry, reports the Telegraph. Polley won the £20,000 (A$32,190) prize for Jackself (Picador), a collection of coming-of-age narrative poems inspired by his childhood in Cumbria. Chair of judges Ruth Padel called Polley’s collection ‘a firework of a book; inventive, exciting and outstanding in its imaginative range and depth of feeling’. Polley was chosen from a shortlist of 10, which included previous winner Alice Oswald and former Whitbread winner Bernard O’Donoghue. Each of the nine other shortlisted authors will receive £1500 (A$2410). Established in 1993, the prize is awarded to the best new collection of poetry published in the UK and Ireland in each year. The prize is run by the T S Eliot Foundation, after previous organisers the Poetry Book Society closed down in 2016. For more information, visit the award website here.

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