T. S. Eliot Prize Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

T. S. Eliot Prize

Joelle Taylor reads next – her shortlisted collection Cunto and Othered Poems, published by Westbourne Press, enters into the private lives of women from the butch counterculture, telling the inside story of the protests they led in the ‘90s to reclaim their bodies as their own.

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T. S. Eliot Prize

“And yet of Eliot’s poems (…) it’s that “heap of broken images” whose influence on modern letters is most indelible,” write the @parisreview in a newsletter celebrating the centenary of the Waste Land, opening Eliot’s Art of Poetry interview to all: https://t.co/RpTfaWMy8g

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T. S. Eliot Prize

First up is Philip Gross, reading from 'The Thirteenth Angel', published by @BloodaxeBooks

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T. S. Eliot Prize

You'll find Readers' Notes, including poems and discussion prompts, and our specially commissioned review of Victoria Adukwei Bulley's book Quiet in this week's newsletter, which has just been sent out. Read & sign up here!: https://t.co/ztAMdi2G2M @victoriaadukwei @FaberBooks https://t.co/kY9eOG0OiK

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T. S. Eliot Prize

Raymond Antrobus begins the 2nd half, reading from All the Names Given. With references to poets ranging from William Blake to Kamau Braithwaite,this collection explores love, marriage and brotherhood, as well as colonial inheritance, racism, ableism and intergenerational trauma.

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T. S. Eliot Prize

The T.S. Eliot Prize 2022 shortlist is announced tomorrow! Go and sign up to our newsletter at https://t.co/wKMTMEKXFZ so you get sent the announcement directly, then why not spend some time with our wonderful 2017 winner - Night Sky with Exit Wounds, by Ocean Vuong. https://t.co/H6U5KPcigX

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T. S. Eliot Prize

Next up is Ruth Padel reading for Selima Hill - a prodigiously prolific poet, Selima’s first collection, Saying Hello at the Station, was published in 1984 and she has since produced nineteen further collections (including two Selected Poems), most published by Bloodaxe.

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T. S. Eliot Prize

Reading next is Denise Saul, her shortlisted collection 'The Room Between Us' is published by Pavilion / Liverpool University Press

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T. S. Eliot Prize

Victoria Kennefick reads from Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet).Rebecca Goss says she “writes with fresh urgency,giving us poems that are honest and fearless…[she] is unafraid to explore bereavement,sex and the female body in her poetry.She writes with a visceral originality.”

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T. S. Eliot Prize

We've got an exclusive new interview with Jemma Borg online now, discussing her T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted collection Wilder. Have a read, and dig deep into this magical and disturbing collection: https://t.co/1CfncIl7Jh @jemma_borg @PavilionPoetry https://t.co/nCuaQFR5rI

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