…Eliot Prize. Paterson is currently poetry editor at Picador, teaches in the School of English at St Andrews University, and lives in Kirriemuir, Angus, with his partner and family. Opposites…

…Auden and his circle. Heavily influenced by the poems of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Ewart continued to contribute accomplished and for the period rather shocking pieces to the magazine….

…to describe his work as “vibrant, radiant… steeped in modernist tradition (Yeats and Eliot) and questingly new… a passionate discourse that is at once earthy and numinous”. From his first…

…for the T. S. Eliot Award. Sheenagh Pugh’s poems are devoted to the project of storytelling, employing a beguiling simplicity of language to navigate the no man’s land between the…

…Happiness, appearing in 1991. This was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation as was his second collection, The Tightrope Wedding, which was also shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize. A…

…Gregory Award. During this time, he completed his first collection of poems, The Brink (2003), a Poetry Book Society Choice that was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Critics were…

…was shortlisted for the T S Eliot prize. She was a fellow of the Royal Society for Literature. In Dunmore’s poems thought and feeling find expression in language that “is…

…Clampitt’s poetry has led reviewers to tangle with equally baroque descriptors. Alfred Corn attempted: “She is as ‘literary’ and allusive as Eliot and Pound, as filled with grubby realia as…

…US Poet Laureate in 1988: “When I was starting to write the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. I got, of course, the idea that…

…Lost Leader, which won the Forward Prize, and was short-listed for the T.S. Eliot and Griffin prizes. Both volumes reveal a poetic sensibility that was wholly original: Imlah’s poems are…

In 2008, Jen Hadfield became the youngest person to win the TS Eliot Prize with her collection Nigh-No-Place. Judge Tobias Hill celebrated her “sheer joy of poetry”, while fellow judge…

…which represented a break from T. S. Eliot’s doctrine of the impersonality of the poet. However, it was 1948’s The Lost Son which was to prove his breakthrough: for this…

…– heartbreakingly commits suicide. Clark’s second collection Take Me With You (2005) was a Poetry Book Society Choice and short listed for the TS Eliot Prize. The PBS Bulletin describes…

…Eliot Prize. The collection begins with the playfully seductive ‘Look at These’, which you can hear on this Archive recording. It is a flaunting of female sexuality – a self-conscious…

…the US and UK, was nominated for the UK’s T. S. Eliot Award and named one of the Washington Post’s best books of 2006. She has received fellowships from the…

…the moments that syntax, language and even the shape of words on the page seem to dissolve. In her third collection Common Prayer, short-listed for the TS Eliot Prize in…

…Dead,’ which he was to revise for the next ten years. This poem has been described as a Southern version of Eliot’s ‘The Wasteland’ – a poem which Tate admired,…

E A Markham (1939-2008) had a career that embraced the range of literary life, and more. Aside from his poetry, for which he was nominated for the T S Eliot…