…must be healed’.   Patience Agbabi’s favourite poetry sayings: ‘…the music of poetry is not something which exists apart from the meaning’ – T S Eliot ‘For though my ryme…

…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…

…– whose mythic confessionalism is rooted in the natural world. Her second work, The Zoo Father (Seren, 2001), garnered much critical acclaim and her first of four TS Eliot prize…

…two fools, I know, For loving and for saying so In whining poetry” – Donne “Poetry is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality…” – T.S. Eliot…

…and dream narratives to Beckettian dialogues, passages of journalese, diaristic studies, and, in the volume’s Eliotic notes, some very funny cod-criticism (“I’m no fan of Eliot’s Great Tradition – which…

…for the Guardian and Independent, and has judged awards including the National Poetry Competition, TS Eliot Prize, Orange First Novel Award and the Next Generation Poet’s List. In 2012 she…

…modernist writing of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. In an interview he says, ‘Discovering the French and the Americans (Pound, William Carlos Williams, Ginsberg) was, for me, a moment of…

…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…

…Trust, Grasmere. Her first full collection, Division Street, was published by Chatto & Windus in 2013, and shortlisted for both the TS Eliot Prize and the Costa Prize. She is…

…for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Assurances (Cape, 2018) was a new work at the time of Morgan’s recordings for the Poetry Archive, exploring the RAF’s involvement with maintaining the Nuclear…

…New Generation Poets promotion; The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Poetry Prize and a Poetry Book Society Choice; Ink Stone (2003), shortlisted for the 2003 T. S. Eliot…

…the T S Eliot Prize. Her first two collections No Theatre (Smith/Doorstop, 1996) and Prince Rupert’s Drop (OUP, 1999) were nominated for Forward Poetry Prizes, while The Night Tree was…

…The Egg of Zero (2006), The Water Table (winner of the 2009 TS Eliot Prize), Deep Field (2011), Later (2013) and Love Songs of Carbon (2015), while the poetry/art collaborations…

…of Authors in 2006. Her first collection, Public Dream, was published by Picador in 2007, and was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for Best First…

…farmer Ross McInerney. This was published by Faber and Faber and short-listed for the T S Eliot Prize in 1994. Spring Forest might be seen as an eclogue, exploring the…

…Windus), ‘a hymn to the people and places that run in our blood’, was published in 2021. It was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot, Forward, and Costa Poetry Prizes….

…S Eliot prize shortlistings, and a Cholmondeley award from the Society of Authors in 2002. In 2011 she published Homesick for the Earth, her versions of the French poet Jules…