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David Jones
B. 1895 D. 1974
…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…
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Idris Davies
B. 1905 D. 1953
…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’….
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Sinead Morrissey
B. 1972
Sinead Morrissey is the author of five collections of poetry, the last four of which have been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award. Her most recent, Parallax, won the…
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Nissim Ezekiel
B. 1924 D. 2004
…(1960) and The Exact Name (1965). Ezekiel’s writing is thought to have been influenced by T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound and Rainer Maria Rilke as well as,…
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Hannah Sullivan
B. 1979
…poems, Three Poems, was published by Faber & Faber in 2018 and won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the John Pollard International Prize. Was It for This was published in…
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Derek Walcott
B. 1930 D. 2017
…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….
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Bernard O’Donoghue
B. 1945
…of his poetry was published by Faber in 2008 and followed by Farmers Cross (2011),which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. In 2009 he was honoured by the Society…
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Roger Robinson
B. 1967
Roger Robinson is a fervent, generous poet. His most recent collection, A Portable Paradise, won both the 2019 T. S. Eliot Prize and the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize…
Poet
Ocean Vuong
B. 1988
…the UK by Cape, won both the Forward Arts Foundation’s 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize – and the chapbooks No (2013) and…
Poet
Sharon Olds
B. 1942
…admired American poets of her generation, she has received a wide array of awards for her work, including the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle…
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Sarah Howe
B. 1983
…2009), won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. Her first full collection, Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus, 2015), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Sunday…
Poet
Tracey Herd
B. 1968
…(Bloodaxe, 2015) was named a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. In addition to their engagement with apparently personal recollections, Herd’s poems are also clearly…
Poet
Steve Ellis
B. 1952
…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…
Poet
Richard Murphy
B. 1927 D. 2018
…his best poetry, first published under T.S. Eliot’s direction in Sailing to an Island (1963). This was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Murphy became a Fellow of the Royal Society…
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James Lasdun
B. 1958
…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…
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Annie Freud
B. 1948
…with a nice piece of meat for the house-dog. ” – TS Eliot – ‘The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism’ “And I always thought/ the very simplest…
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Jon Stallworthy
B. 1935 D. 2014
…concerned in the actual writing are more those of a quasi-musical nature, in the arrangement of metric and pattern, than of a conscious exposition of ideas. – T.S. Eliot …