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Find out more about the books shortlisted for the Uk's preeminent poetry prize.
Featured Books
The Bees Carol Ann Duffy
Winner of the Costa Poetry Award 2011.
Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize for Poetry 2011.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy UK Author of the Year Award 2011.
Reviewed and selected by our poetry expert, Liam Parkin.
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s new... Format: Hardback - Released: 07/10/2011
Black Cat Bone John Burnside
Winner of the T S Eliot Prize for Poetry 2011.
John Burnside's remarkable new book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. These are poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
Farmers Cross Bernard O'Donoghue
Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize for Poetry 2011.
This book brings together subtle and moving meditations on exile and belonging, travel and home, and honours many friends and loved ones along the way. In a series of poems that... Format: Paperback - Released: 16/06/2011
Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-man Eating Tiger-toy Machine!!! Daljit Nagra
Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize for Poetry 2011.
Look We Have Coming to Dover!, the remarkable debut by Daljit Nagra, marked the arrival of a thrilling new voice in poetry and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/08/2011
Grace Esther Morgan
Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize for Poetry 2011.
What happens if, when the angel arrives with his message, no one's at home? In poems of lyric concentration, Grace examines our need for purpose, for the signs that might help... Format: Paperback - Released: 31/10/2011
Profit and Loss Leontia Flynn
Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize for Poetry 2011.
Celebrated as an unusually original poet - nervy, refreshing, deceptively simple - Leontia Flynn has quickly developed into a writer of assured technical complexity and a startling acuity of perception. In... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
November Sean O'brien
Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize for Poetry 2011.
November is Sean O'Brien's first collection since his widely celebrated The Drowned Book, the only book of poetry to have won both the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. November is... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2011
Night David Harsent
Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize for Poetry 2011.
Among the poems that open Night, David Harsent's follow-up to his Forward Prize-winning collection Legion , is a startling sequence about a garden - but a garden unlike any other. It... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/01/2011
The shortlist has just been announced for the 2011 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry, ‘the world’s top poetry prize’ (Irish Independent), which was set up by the Poetry Book Society in honour of its founding poet.
This year there’s a strong shortlist, with big names such as Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy (The Bees), 2007 winner Sean O’Brien (November), John Burnside (Black Cat Bone), who has just won the Forward Prize, David Harsent (Night), and Bernard O’Donoghue (Farmer’s Cross), lining up alongside younger poets such as Leontia Flynn (Profit and Loss), Daljit Nagra (Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!) and Esther Morgan (Grace).
The PBS has also just relaunched its scheme for reading groups and individual readers, who can download poems and reading group notes from poetrybooks.co.uk/projects/13/.
Chair Gillian Clarke said: ‘This most demanding of all poetry prizes bears the name of a great
twentieth century poet. A great book must win. The shortlist emerged
with some pain but no dispute. Despite sorrow at losing other
favourites, we're proud of these books, a library of the best, from
which just one must be chosen.'
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