Shortlisted TS Eliot prize poets speak to a disrupted world
The 10 listed collections range from ‘zany intimacy’ by Sharon Olds to explorations of Black identity from Ishion Hutchinson and Jason Allen-Paisant
The 10 shortlisted poetry collections for the 2023 TS Eliot prize announced today reflect the “disruption” of the present moment, said the chair of the judges, with poems drawing on the coronavirus pandemic, loss and war.
The winner, to be announced in January, will receive £25,000, while each shortlisted poet will receive £1,500.
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