T S Eliot Prize shortlist announced
In the UK, the shortlist for this year’s T S Eliot Prize for Poetry, worth £25,000 (A$45K), has been announced.
The 10 shortlisted poetry collections are:
- Quiet (Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Faber)
- Ephemeron (Fiona Benson, Jonathan Cape)
- Wilder (Jemma Borg, Pavilion Poetry)
- The Thirteenth Angel (Philip Gross, Bloodaxe Books)
- Sonnets for Albert (Anthony Joseph, Bloomsbury Poetry)
- England’s Green (Zaffar Kunial, Faber)
- Slide (Mark Pajak, Jonathan Cape)
- bandit country (James Conor Patterson, Picador Poetry)
- The Room Between Us (Denise Saul, Pavilion Poetry)
- Manorism (Yomi Sode, Penguin Press).
The prize is the most valuable in British poetry and received a record 201 submissions this year.
Chair of judges Jean Sprackland said: ‘The 10 shortlisted books are unflinching in their explorations of love and grief, brutality and desire. They are alive with insects and angels, psychedelic plants and deep-sea fish; and haunted by the ghosts of Caravaggio and Daniel O’Connell.
‘The English of these books is supple and shapeshifting, inflected with Yoruba, Newry street dialect, and the rhythms of Caribbean speech. These are books that thrilled, surprised and struck us to the heart.’
Last year’s winner was Joelle Taylor for her collection C+nto & Othered Poems (The Westbourne Press).
The winner will be announced on 15 January 2023.
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