T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlist 2024

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An astounding collection from the author of the T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted All The Names Given, Signs, Music is a beautiful series of lyric sequences about masculinity and fatherhood.‘I became fatherless at 26 and a…

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A lyrical biography of a bird and a fragmented study of a flawed and mutable creature bearing its name, Hannah Copley's Lapwing migrates across voices and blurs the divide between bird and human, self and other to explore…

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The Penny Dropping offers an account of a cherished relationship from first meeting to eventual break-up. Distance gives the writer a retrospective clarity from which she does not flinch despite its challenges (‘Look at…

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2024The powerful new collection from legendary American poet Peter Gizzi, reckoning with the transformative power of elegy through poems of lament and love‘I am awestruck, dumbfounded … a…

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Just inside the track’s concentriccircus rings, at the football field’shead, is where I learned to wearthe gaze of other people like a queenwears feathers.In High Jump as Icarus Story, Gustav Parker Hibbett gifts us visions of…

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A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024In her second collection, Mann wrestles with the questions and possibilities raised when trans identity, faith and the limits of myth and language intersect and are tested. Eleanor Among…

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The debut collection of poetry by Gboyega Odubanjo.'On 21 September 2001, the torso of a black boy was discovered in the River Thames, near Tower Bridge in central London, clothed only in an orange pair of girls' shorts. Given the name…

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Carl Phillips's Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowledge that's rooted in (always unstable) human memory. If the poet's recent books have…

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Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024330 million years ago what is now the rocky shore close to Katrina Porteous’s Northumberland home was a tropical swamp inhabited by three-metre long predatory fish with huge tusk-like teeth.…

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The lyrical, hilarious and totally original debut novel by award-winning poet and campaigner, Karen McCarthy Woolf.'Extraordinarily inventive, witty, moving and profound.' Bernardine Evaristo'If you read one novel this year, let it…