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The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded by the Poetry Book Society
Poetry Book Society

The Poetry Book Society was founded by T. S. Eliot in 1953 and publishes the quarterly poetry journal Bulletin.External links...
 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 inaugurated in 1993 in celebration of the Poetry Book Society's 40th birthday and in honour of its founding poet, T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot

'Thomas Stearns Eliot', Order of Merit , was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J....
. The £15,000 prize money is donated by Eliot's widow, Mrs Valerie Eliot
Valerie Eliot

Valerie Eliot n?e Esm? Valerie Fletcher is the surviving widow and second wife of the Nobel prize winning poet T. S. Eliot....
.

A shortlist for the 2007 award was published in November 2007 and the announcement of the winner was made on 14 January 2008.

Truman State University
Truman State University

Truman State University is a highly selective public university liberal arts college and sciences university in Missouri and a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges....
 Press in Missouri also gives out a "T.S.






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The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded by the Poetry Book Society
Poetry Book Society

The Poetry Book Society was founded by T. S. Eliot in 1953 and publishes the quarterly poetry journal Bulletin.External links...
 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 inaugurated in 1993 in celebration of the Poetry Book Society's 40th birthday and in honour of its founding poet, T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot

'Thomas Stearns Eliot', Order of Merit , was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J....
. The £15,000 prize money is donated by Eliot's widow, Mrs Valerie Eliot
Valerie Eliot

Valerie Eliot n?e Esm? Valerie Fletcher is the surviving widow and second wife of the Nobel prize winning poet T. S. Eliot....
.

A shortlist for the 2007 award was published in November 2007 and the announcement of the winner was made on 14 January 2008.

Truman State University
Truman State University

Truman State University is a highly selective public university liberal arts college and sciences university in Missouri and a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges....
 Press in Missouri also gives out a "T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry" which appears to have no relation to the British prize.

List of winners

  • 2008
    2008 in poetry

    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
     - Jen Hadfield
    Jen Hadfield

    Jen Hadfield is an England poet and artist.She won the 2008 T S Eliot Prize for her second collection, Nigh-No-Place. This was a notable honour for a relative newcomer, as the award's previous recipients include such major poets as Carol Ann Duffy, Seamus Heaney, and Ted Hughes....
    , Nigh-No-Place
  • 2007
    2007 in poetry

    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
     - Sean O'Brien
    Sean O'Brien (writer)

    Sean O'Brien is a United Kingdom poet, critic, playwright, Presenter, anthologist, short story writer and editing. He grew up in Kingston upon Hull and has lived in Newcastle upon Tyne since 1990....
    , The Drowned Book
  • 2006
    2006 in poetry

    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
     - Seamus Heaney
    Seamus Heaney

    Seamus Heaney is an Irish people poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin....
    , District and Circle
    District and Circle

    District and Circle is a collection of poems written by Irish people Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It is the poet's most recent volume, published forty years after his debut Death of a Naturalist, and was awarded the 2006 T....
  • 2005
    2005 in poetry

    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
     - Carol Ann Duffy
    Carol Ann Duffy

    Carol Ann Duffy is a United Kingdom poet, playwright and freelance writer born in Glasgow, Scotland. She grew up in Staffordshire and graduated in philosophy from University of Liverpool in 1977....
    , Rapture
  • 2004
    2004 in poetry

    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
     - George Szirtes
    George Szirtes

    George Szirtes , born May 9th 1948, is a Hungary-born poet, writing in English, as well as a translator from the Hungarian language into English....
    , Reel
  • 2003
    2003 in poetry

    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
     - Don Paterson
    Don Paterson

    Don Paterson, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Literature is a Scotland poet, writer and musician.Paterson was born in Dundee. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1990 and his poem A Private Bottling won the in 1993....
    , Landing Light
  • 2002
    2002 in poetry

    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
     - Alice Oswald
    Alice Oswald

    Alice Oswald is an English poet.Oswald read Classics at New College, Oxford, Oxford University, has worked as a gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden, and today lives with her husband, the playwright Peter Oswald , and her three children in Devon, in the South of England....
    , Dart
  • 2001
    2001 in poetry

    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
     - Anne Carson
    Anne Carson

    Anne Carson is a Canada poet, essayist, translator, and a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University....
    , The Beauty of the Husband
  • 2000
    2000 in poetry

    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
     - Michael Longley
    Michael Longley

    Michael Longley is a Northern Irish poet.Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus ....
    , The Weather in Japan
  • 1999
    1999 in poetry

    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
     - Hugo Williams
    Hugo Williams

    Hugo Williams is a British poet, journalist and travel writer. His full name is Hugh Mordaunt Vyner Williams He is the son of actor Hugh Williams and the model and actress Margaret Vyner, who co-wrote some upper-middle-class comedies in the late 1950s....
    , Billy's Rain
  • 1998
    1998 in poetry

    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
     - Ted Hughes
    Ted Hughes

    Edward James Hughes Order of Merit was an England poet and Children's literature, known as Ted Hughes. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation....
    , Birthday Letters
    Birthday Letters

    Birthday Letters, published in 1998 , is a collection of poetry by England poet and children's literature Ted Hughes. Released only months before Hughes' death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards....
  • 1997
    1997 in poetry

    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
     - Don Paterson
    Don Paterson

    Don Paterson, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Literature is a Scotland poet, writer and musician.Paterson was born in Dundee. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1990 and his poem A Private Bottling won the in 1993....
    , God's Gift to Women
  • 1996
    1996 in poetry

    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
     - Les Murray
    Les Murray (poet)

    Leslie Allan Murray, Order of Australia , known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spans over forty years, and he has published nearly thirty volumes of poetry, as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings....
    , Subhuman Redneck Poems
  • 1995
    1995 in poetry

    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
     - Mark Doty
    Mark Doty

    Mark Doty is a National Book Award winning, United States of America poet and memoirist. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, then received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont....
    , My Alexandria
  • 1994
    1994 in poetry

    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
     - Paul Muldoon
    Paul Muldoon

    Paul Muldoon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry from County Armagh, Northern Ireland as well as an educator and academic at Princeton University....
    , The Annals of Chile
  • 1993
    1993 in poetry

    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
     - Ciaran Carson
    Ciaran Carson

    Ciar?n Carson, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is a poet and novelist. He lives in Belfast....
    , First Language: Poems


Shortlists


  • 2008 - Moniza Alvi
    Moniza Alvi

    Moniza Alvi is a Pakistani-British poet and writer.)She was born in Lahore. Her parents moved to England when she was an infant. She was educated at the Universities of York and London....
    , Europa
    Europa

    Europa is a beautiful Phoenician princess in Greek mythology. Her name is the name for Europe in Latin and other languages.Europa may also refer to:...
    . Peter Bennet, The Glass Swarm. Ciarán Carson
    Ciaran Carson

    Ciar?n Carson, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is a poet and novelist. He lives in Belfast....
    , For All We Know
    For All We Know

    "For All We Know" can refer to a number of songs:*"For All We Know ," a 1934 in music song by Sam M. Lewis and J. Fred Coots*"For All We Know ," a 1970 in music song by Robb Royer, Fred Karlin, and Jimmy Griffin...
    . Robert Crawford
    Robert Crawford

    Robert Crawford was a footballer who played for Liverpool F.C. during the early part of the 20th century....
    , Full Volume. Maura Dooley, Life Under Water
    Life Under Water

    Life Under Water is a PBS' American Playhouse TV movie, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Joanna Gleason and Keanu Reeves. It was written by Richard Greenberg and based on his play....
    . Mark Doty
    Mark Doty

    Mark Doty is a National Book Award winning, United States of America poet and memoirist. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, then received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont....
    , Theories and Apparitions. Jen Hadfield
    Jen Hadfield

    Jen Hadfield is an England poet and artist.She won the 2008 T S Eliot Prize for her second collection, Nigh-No-Place. This was a notable honour for a relative newcomer, as the award's previous recipients include such major poets as Carol Ann Duffy, Seamus Heaney, and Ted Hughes....
    , Nigh-No-Place. Mick Imlah
    Mick Imlah

    Michael Ogilvie Imlah, better known as Mick Imlah was a Scottish poet and editor.Imlah was brought up in Milngavie near Glasgow, before moving to Beckenham, Kent in 1966....
    ,
    The Lost Leader
    The Lost Leader

    THE LOST LEADER The Lost Leader is a collection of poems published in 2008 by Mick Imlah. It was his last published work before his untimely death....
    . Glyn Maxwell
    Glyn Maxwell

    Glyn Maxwell is a British poet....
    ,
    Hide Now. Stephen Romer
    Stephen Romer

    Stephen Romer is an English poet, academic and literary critic. He was born in Hertfordshire in 1957 and educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Since 1981 he has lived in France, where he is Ma?tre de Conferences in the English department of Tours University....
    ,
    Yellow Studio.


  • 2007 - Ian Duhig, The Speed of Dark. Alan Gillis
    Alan Gillis

    Alan Leslie Gillis is a former Republic of Ireland Fine Gael politician and Farmers' leader. He was president of the Irish Farmers' Association from 1990?94....
    ,
    Hawks and Doves. Sophie Hannah
    Sophie Hannah

    Sophie Hannah is an award-winning England poet and novelist. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 she was a junior research fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford....
    ,
    Pessimism for Beginners. Mimi Khalvati
    Mimi Khalvati

    Mimi Khalvati is a British poet. She was born in Tehran, Iran. She grew up on the Isle of Wight and was educated in Switzerland at the University of Neuch?tel, and in London at the Drama Centre and the School of Oriental and African Studies....
    ,
    The Meanest Flower. Frances Leviston
    Frances Leviston

    Frances Leviston is a United Kingdom poet.Born in Edinburgh, Frances Leviston later moved to Sheffield. She studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford in Oxford University, where she read English....
    ,
    Public Dream. Sarah Maguire, The Pomegranates of Kandahar. Edwin Morgan
    Edwin Morgan

    Edwin George Morgan OBE is a Scotland poet and translator who is associated with the Scottish Renaissance. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century....
    ,
    A Book of Lives.
    Sean O'Brien
    Sean O'Brien (writer)

    Sean O'Brien is a United Kingdom poet, critic, playwright, Presenter, anthologist, short story writer and editing. He grew up in Kingston upon Hull and has lived in Newcastle upon Tyne since 1990....
    ,
    The Drowned Book
    . Fiona Sampson
    Fiona Sampson

    Fiona Sampson is an award-winning British poet....
    , Common Prayer. Matthew Sweeney, Black Moon.


  • 2006 - Simon Armitage
    Simon Armitage

    Simon Armitage is a UK poet, playwright, and novelist. Before finding success with his poetry he worked as a probation officer, an undertaker's assistant and a supermarket shelf stacker....
    , Tyrannosaurus Rex versus the Corduroy Kid. Paul Farley
    Paul Farley

    Paul Farley is an award-winning English poet. He was born in Liverpool, studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art, and has lived in London, Brighton and Cumbria....
    , Tramp in Flames. Seamus Heaney
    Seamus Heaney

    Seamus Heaney is an Irish people poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin....
    , District and Circle. W. N. Herbert
    W. N. Herbert

    W. N. Herbert is a poet from Dundee, Scotland. He writes in both English language and Scots language. He and Richard Price founded the poetry magazine Gairfish....
    ,
    Bad Shaman Blues. Jane Hirshfield
    Jane Hirshfield

    Jane Hirshfield is an award-winning United States poet.She was born in New York City and received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University in the school's first graduating class to include women....
    ,
    After. Tim Liardet
    Tim Liardet

    Tim Liardet is an England poet and critic. He studied at the University of York and lectures in creative writing at Bath Spa University. He has published five collections of poetry, Clay Hill, Fellini Beach, Competing with the Piano Tuner, To the God of Rain and The Blood Choir, which was nominated for the T....
    ,
    The Blood Choir. Paul Muldoon
    Paul Muldoon

    Paul Muldoon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry from County Armagh, Northern Ireland as well as an educator and academic at Princeton University....
    ,
    Horse Latitudes. Robin Robertson
    Robin Robertson

    Robin Robertson is a Scotland poet.Robertson's poetry collection, A Painted Field won the 1997 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Scottish First Book of the Year Award....
    ,
    Swithering. Penelope Shuttle, Redgrove's Wife. Hugo Williams
    Hugo Williams

    Hugo Williams is a British poet, journalist and travel writer. His full name is Hugh Mordaunt Vyner Williams He is the son of actor Hugh Williams and the model and actress Margaret Vyner, who co-wrote some upper-middle-class comedies in the late 1950s....
    ,
    Dear Room.


  • 2005 - Polly Clark, Take Me with You. Carol Ann Duffy
    Carol Ann Duffy

    Carol Ann Duffy is a United Kingdom poet, playwright and freelance writer born in Glasgow, Scotland. She grew up in Staffordshire and graduated in philosophy from University of Liverpool in 1977....
    ,
    Rapture
    . Helen Farish, Intimates. David Harsent
    David Harsent

    David Harsent is an English people Poetry. As Jack Curtis and David Lawrence he has published a number of crime fiction novels.During his early career he was part of a circle of poets centred around Ian Hamilton , and forming something of a school, promoting conciseness and Imagism-like clarity in verse, though his work has changed and dev...
    , Legion. Sinead Morrissey
    Sinead Morrissey

    Sin?ad Morrissey is a poet from Northern Ireland.Raised in Belfast, she was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where she took BA and PhD degrees, and won the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1990....
    , The State of the Prisons. Alice Oswald
    Alice Oswald

    Alice Oswald is an English poet.Oswald read Classics at New College, Oxford, Oxford University, has worked as a gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden, and today lives with her husband, the playwright Peter Oswald , and her three children in Devon, in the South of England....
    , Woods etc. Pascale Petit
    Pascale Petit

    Pascale Petit is a poet and editing. She grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and has travelled in the Venezuelan Amazon and China....
    , The Huntress. Sheenagh Pugh
    Sheenagh Pugh

    Sheenagh Pugh is a United Kingdom poet, novelist and translator who writes in the English language.Sheenagh Pugh studied languages at the University of Bristol....
    , The Movement of Bodies. John Stammers, Stolen Love Behaviour. Gerard Woodward
    Gerard Woodward

    Gerard Woodward is an award-winning United Kingdom novelist and poetry. He was born in London and educated at Falmouth School of Art and the London School of Economics, where he studied Social Anthropology....
    , We Were Pedestrians.


  • 2004 - Colette Bryce
    Colette Bryce

    Colette Bryce is a critically-acclaimed poet from Derry, Northern Ireland. Bryce lived in London until 2002 when she moved to Scotland, followed by a move to the North East of England in 2005....
    , The Full Indian Rope Trick. Kathryn Gray, The Never Never, Kathleen Jamie
    Kathleen Jamie

    Kathleen Jamie is a Scotland poet, raised in Currie, Edinburgh. She gained an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh.Her first book was Black Spiders, published 1982 by Salamander Press....
    , The Tree House. Michael Longley
    Michael Longley

    Michael Longley is a Northern Irish poet.Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus ....
    , Snow Water, Ruth Padel
    Ruth Padel

    Ruth Sophia Padel is a United Kingdom classical scholar, poet and journalist. She came to prominence with a poetry column in the London Independent on Sunday, of close readings of contemporary poems; the book 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem edits together her writing there....
    , The Soho Leopard, Tom Paulin
    Tom Paulin

    Thomas Neilson Paulin is a Northern Ireland poet and critic of film, music and literature. He lives in England, where he is the GM Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford....
    , The Road to Inver. Peter Porter
    Peter Porter

    Peter Porter is the name of* Peter Buell Porter , U.S. political figure and soldier.* Peter A. Porter , U.S. political figure and grandson of Peter Buell Porter....
    , Afterburner. Michael Symmons Roberts
    Michael Symmons Roberts

    Michael Symmons Roberts is an award-winning British poet.He has also written novels, libretti for operas and texts for oratorios and song cycles....
    , Corpus. George Szirtes
    George Szirtes

    George Szirtes , born May 9th 1948, is a Hungary-born poet, writing in English, as well as a translator from the Hungarian language into English....
    , Reel. John Hartley Williams
    John Hartley Williams

    John Hartley Williams is a British people poet who was born in Cheshire and grew up in London. He studied at Nottingham University and later at the University of London....
    ,
    Blues.


  • 2003 - Billy Collins
    Billy Collins

    William ?Billy? Collins is an American Poetry of the United States. He served two terms as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2001 to 2003....
    ,
    Nine Horses. John F. Deane
    John F. Deane

    John F. Deane is an Ireland poet and novelist. He founded Poetry Ireland and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1979....
    ,
    Manhandling the Deity. Ian Duhig, The Lammas Hireling. Lavinia Greenlaw
    Lavinia Greenlaw

    Lavinia Greenlaw is an England poet and novelist. She was born in London, where she still lives, currently working as Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and a part-time tutor for the MA Creative and Life Writing Programme at Goldsmiths, University of London....
    ,
    Minsk. Jamie McKendrick, Ink Stone. Bernard O'Donoghue
    Bernard O'Donoghue

    Bernard O'Donoghue is a noted contemporary Irish poet and academic.Born in Cullen, County Cork, Ireland, he moved to Manchester, England when he was 16, where he attended St Bede's College, Manchester....
    ,
    Outiving.
    Don Paterson
    Don Paterson

    Don Paterson, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Literature is a Scotland poet, writer and musician.Paterson was born in Dundee. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1990 and his poem A Private Bottling won the in 1993....
    ,
    Landing Light
    . Jacob Polley
    Jacob Polley

    Jacob Polley is a British poet, born in Carlisle, Cumbria.Polley won an Eric Gregory Award, and the BBC Radio 4/Arts Council ?First Verse? Award, in 2002....
    , The Brink. Christopher Reid
    Christopher Reid

    Christopher Reid is a United Kingdom poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer. He has been nominated twice for the Whitbread Awards in 1996 and in 1997....
    , For and After. Jean Sprackland
    Jean Sprackland

    Jean Sprackland is an English poet. She has been writing successfully for more than twelve years and has had three collections of poetry published since 1997....
    , Hard Water.


  • 2002 - Simon Armitage
    Simon Armitage

    Simon Armitage is a UK poet, playwright, and novelist. Before finding success with his poetry he worked as a probation officer, an undertaker's assistant and a supermarket shelf stacker....
    , The Universal Home Doctor. John Burnside
    John Burnside

    John Burnside is a Scottish people writer, born in Dunfermline.Burnside studied English and European Languages at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology....
    , The Light Trap. Paul Farley
    Paul Farley

    Paul Farley is an award-winning English poet. He was born in Liverpool, studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art, and has lived in London, Brighton and Cumbria....
    , The Ice Age. David Harsent
    David Harsent

    David Harsent is an English people Poetry. As Jack Curtis and David Lawrence he has published a number of crime fiction novels.During his early career he was part of a circle of poets centred around Ian Hamilton , and forming something of a school, promoting conciseness and Imagism-like clarity in verse, though his work has changed and dev...
    , Marriage. Geoffrey Hill
    Geoffrey Hill

    For the British aeronautical engineer and professor, see Geoffrey T. R. HillGeoffrey Hill is an English people poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University....
    , The Orchards of Syon. E. A. Markham
    E. A. Markham

    Edward Archie Markham FRSL was a poet and writer, born in Harris, Montserrat, and mainly resident in the United Kingdom from 1956. Known for poetry in both "nation-language" and standard English languge, for short stories and a comic novel, he sometimes used the pseudonym Paul St....
    , A Rough Climate. Sinead Morrissey
    Sinead Morrissey

    Sin?ad Morrissey is a poet from Northern Ireland.Raised in Belfast, she was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where she took BA and PhD degrees, and won the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1990....
    , Between Here and There. Paul Muldoon
    Paul Muldoon

    Paul Muldoon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry from County Armagh, Northern Ireland as well as an educator and academic at Princeton University....
    , Moy Sand and Gravel. Alice Oswald
    Alice Oswald

    Alice Oswald is an English poet.Oswald read Classics at New College, Oxford, Oxford University, has worked as a gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden, and today lives with her husband, the playwright Peter Oswald , and her three children in Devon, in the South of England....
    , Dart. Ruth Padel
    Ruth Padel

    Ruth Sophia Padel is a United Kingdom classical scholar, poet and journalist. She came to prominence with a poetry column in the London Independent on Sunday, of close readings of contemporary poems; the book 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem edits together her writing there....
    ,
    Voodoo Shop.


  • 2001 - Gillian Allnutt
    Gillian Allnutt

    Gillian Allnutt is an English poet who now lives in Esh Winning, County Durham. Her books Nantucket and the Angel and Lintel were both shortlisted for the T....
    ,
    Lintel. Charles Boyle
    Charles Boyle (poet)

    Charles Boyle is a United Kingdom poet. He has also published a novella, 24 for 3, under the pseudonym Jennie Walker.He is best known for writing The Age of Cardboard and String....
    ,
    The Age of Cardboard and String.
    Anne Carson
    Anne Carson

    Anne Carson is a Canada poet, essayist, translator, and a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University....
    ,
    The Beauty of the Husband. Seamus Heaney
    Seamus Heaney

    Seamus Heaney is an Irish people poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin....
    ,
    Electric Light. Geoffrey Hill
    Geoffrey Hill

    For the British aeronautical engineer and professor, see Geoffrey T. R. HillGeoffrey Hill is an English people poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University....
     -
    Speech! Speech!. Selima Hill, Bunny. James Lasdun
    James Lasdun

    James Lasdun is a England author, poet and academic, who currently lives in upstate New York and is married to writer Pia Davis, with whom he co-authored the travel book Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria....
    ,
    Landscape with Chainsaw. Sean O'Brien
    Sean O'Brien (writer)

    Sean O'Brien is a United Kingdom poet, critic, playwright, Presenter, anthologist, short story writer and editing. He grew up in Kingston upon Hull and has lived in Newcastle upon Tyne since 1990....
    ,
    Downriver. Pascale Petit
    Pascale Petit

    Pascale Petit is a poet and editing. She grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and has travelled in the Venezuelan Amazon and China....
    ,
    The Zoo Father. Michael Symmons Roberts
    Michael Symmons Roberts

    Michael Symmons Roberts is an award-winning British poet.He has also written novels, libretti for operas and texts for oratorios and song cycles....
    ,
    Burning Babylon.


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