T. S. Eliot Prize

Winners’ Archive

Welcome to the T. S. Eliot Prize Winners’ Archive. The premier Prize in poetry, the T. S. Eliot Prize was inaugurated in 1993 and is awarded annually to the best new collection of poetry in English published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland. Thanks to the support of the T. S. Eliot Foundation this collection is a new collaboration with the Poetry Archive which celebrates the T. S. Eliot Prize winners, shortlisted poets, and over 30 years of the finest poetry collections.

Each winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize is invited to make a recording for the Archive as part of their prize. The Poetry Archive will publish those recordings here as they are made, with each poet’s voice preserved in the Archive and made available for you to enjoy.

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T. S. Eliot Prize

Winners’ Archive

Excerpts from ‘How to wash a heart’ - Bhanu Kapil

You, Very Young, in New York - Hannah Sullivan

Conductors of his Mystery - Anthony Joseph

The Battle of Maryville - Joelle Taylor

A Portable Paradise - Private: Roger Robinson

Private: To My Father / To My Future Son - Private: Ocean Vuong

The Weasel - Private: Jacob Polley

Private: Loop of Jade - Sarah Howe

Private: Sniper - Private: David Harsent

Read by Sinead Morrissey

1801 - Sinead Morrissey - Read by Sinead Morrissey

Private: Grey Girl - Private: Sharon Olds

The Good Neighbour - John Burnside

Private: Sea Canes - Private: Derek Walcott

Severn Song - Philip Gross

Ladies and Gentlemen This is a Horse - Jen Hadfield

Private: Cousin Coat - Private: Sean O’Brien

Private: The Underground - Private: Seamus Heaney

Private: Syntax - Private: Carol Ann Duffy

Piano - George Szirtes

The White Lie - Private: Don Paterson

Memorial - Alice Oswald

Private: Wounds - Private: Michael Longley

Her News - Private: Hugo Williams

Private: Pike - Private: Ted Hughes

The Lover - Private: Don Paterson

Out of danger - James Fenton

Belfast Confetti - Ciaran Carson

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