…– 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…

…post-Christian’. Yet Phillips is keen to stress the influence of what she terms Western Classical Literature, particularly on the technical craft and range of language in Shakespeare, Eliot, and Heaney….

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award, the Forward Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (for Landscape with Chainsaw, in 2001), and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in…

…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…

…and a number of academic monographs on writers such as Chaucer, T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. He studied English and Art History at University College London, later completing a…

…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…

…Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters, and was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1988. His collection ‘White Egrets’ won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize….

…His work attracted the endorsement of Kenneth Clark, T. S. Eliot and W.H. Auden although his poetry is not considered easy to read or understand by some. Jones’ engravings and…

…Tonypandy and other poems (Faber and Faber 1945. ‘The Angry Summer was considered by T.S. Eliot to be ‘the finest poetical document yet made about any specific time and place’….