…the poems which would make up his first volume, Poems, published by T. S. Eliot at Faber & Faber in 1938. In a literary climate which prized the often explicitly…

…was one of “profound scepticism.” Called by some ‘the last English modernist’, his poetry follows in a tradition partly of his own discerning, through Hulme, Eliot, Pound (who caused him…

…T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Marilynne Robinson, Randall Jarrell, Ezra Pound, and many others. He is the author of a critical biography of Raymond Roussel, Raymond Roussel and the Republic of…

…Glasgow University, where Edwin Morgan was one of his tutors. After postgraduate work at Balliol College on T. S. Eliot, and a research fellowship at St Hugh’s College in Oxford,…

…Tongue (1994), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Saltire prizes. Cabaret McGonagall (1996) was shortlisted for the Forward and McVities prizes; The…

…American Academy in Berlin, the MacArthur Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. Carson was appointed as a member of the Order of Canada. She won the 2002 T.S Eliot Prize. Carson’s…

…or prose poems that return to Riordan’s Irish roots, received the Michael Hartnett Award. The Water Stealer (2013, also shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize) is his most recent collection,…

…Gap-Stone Stile (1996), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize, her unusual, almost visionary style – personifying Nature and its birds,…

…idiosyncratic and subtle”. She writes of life in all its sadness – life, as what Eliot calls, that “infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing”. She was born in Glasgow in 1955…

…literary icons as T. S. Eliot and Emerson. Some of his judgements still seem perverse, his preference for Robert Bridges to Eliot for instance, or Charles Churchill to Alexander Pope,…

…around Thomas, though his voice was distinctive enough to attract the attention of T. S. Eliot who published The White Threshold (1949) through Faber & Faber, his publishers for the…

…S. Eliot. Pound’s incisive editing of ‘The Waste Land’ transformed it into the poem that revolutionised poetic sensibility. Pound’s own work in this period shifted rapidly from early formal poems…

…influence of TS Eliot on the book, both “stylistically and intellectually”, though Eliot also offers a moral paradigm. Swift’s own moral motivations and optimism are visible not only in his…

…the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2000 for The Asylum Dance which was also shortlisted for the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes, and winning the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize…

…her early twenties. She edited many collections and anthologies while at Faber and Faber, and worked closely with the company’s Poetry Editor, T S Eliot. He features as a character…

…mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man’s experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary.” – T. S. Eliot “Between them, Eliot, Frost and…

…the stirrings of language and its illusions of certainty in the poet’s young son. Yellow Studio, Romer’s most recent collection, which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, and described…

…in Italy, and her writing served to help support her large family. She became a literary celebrity, garnering praise from the likes of Wordsworth and George Eliot, but her work…