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Welcome to the Poetry Bookshop Online, the online bookstore run by the Poetry Book Society

The Poetry Book Society would like to congratulate the poets whose books are on the

T S Eliot Prize 2008 Shortlist.

 

Judges Andrew Motion (Chair), Lavinia Greenlaw and Tobias Hill have chosen the following 10 collections: click on the links for more information and to buy books:

 

Moniza Alvi Europa Bloodaxe
Peter Bennet The Glass Swarm Flambard
Ciaran Carson For All We Know Gallery Books
Robert Crawford Full Volume Jonathan Cape
Maura Dooley Life Under Water Bloodaxe
Mark Doty Theories and Apparitions Jonathan Cape
Jen Hadfield Nigh-No-Place Bloodaxe
Mick Imlah The Lost Leader Faber
Glyn Maxwell Hide Now Picador
Stephen Romer Yellow Studio Carcanet


Details of the winning book will be posted here after the award ceremony on Monday 12 th January 2009.

 

The T S Eliot Lecture

On Sunday 26th October Sean O'Brien, who won the 2007 T S Eliot Prize for The Drowned Book (Picador), gave the T S Eliot Lecture at the Southbank Centre. The full text of his absorbing and stimulating lecture can be read here (pdf).

 

The T S Eliot Prize 2008 Shadowing Scheme

Click here to access the Shadowing Scheme web pages, including the full set of poetry downloads (pdfs) and details on how to enter.

 

T S Eliot Prize 2008 – The Readings

 

All 10 of the poets on the shortlist will be invited to read at a special event at the Southbank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on the eve of the awards ceremony. To book tickets (£12 / £6 conc.) call the box office on 0871 663 2500 or visit www.southbankcentre.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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Welcome to Poetry Bookshop Online - the home of poetry on the internet. From Beowulf to Birthday Letters - Poetry Bookshop Online is, quite simply, the best place to buy poetry. Why trek to the shops when all the poetry books currently in print in the UK are just a mouse click away?

T S Eliot Prize 2007



The winner of the T S Eliot Prize 2006 is Seamus Heaney for District and Circle. Click here for more information.

The winner of the T S Eliot Prize 2005 was
Carol Ann Duffy, for Rapture.


 

The PBS is the sole online distributor of the Poetry Archive CDs, a unique collection of contemporary poets performing their own work. Click here for more information.

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