T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist 2026
Selected by the Bookshop
‘The T. S. Eliot Prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best new poetry collection published in the UK and Ireland.’
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In Sleep Gate, Sylvia Legris descends into biological dreaming itself: the sleep beneath sleep, where ‘the dream under the dream / is the dream of plants’. Taking up Inger Christensen’s summons to ‘dream our way…
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PIVOT is an experimental, book-length poem exploring the profound act of turning, with the Haitian Revolution as its cornerstone. It moves beyond historical narrative, scrutinising this epochal event through its critical junctures of…
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Poetry Extra 'Book of the Month''One of the most poignant meditations on motherhood to be published in recent years' Jade Cuttle, THE OBSERVER'Moore's new collection constructs an ambitious architecture for exploring intergenerational…
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Welcome to Cafés! Somewhere to eat and forget about work, where we can meet friends and not think about love, where we can meet lovers and be too nervous to eat. In Holly Pester’s unique lyric, the café becomes a…
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From the former Poet Laureate, a remarkable contemplation of departure and return.Andrew Motion's new collection gives a moving account of the friction and interplay between past and present. In the opening elegies for friends and former…
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Render plunges the reader into the vibrant setting of Barcelona in the second half of the twentieth century. A compelling character study, the book is presented as the collected works of a fictional poet: Alberto Cenas, the lonely scion of…
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Jana Prikryl’s poems wrestle with problems of power and selfhood in a style both fluid and inexorable. The Channel, the poet’s fourth collection and her UK debut, is in deep conversation with King Lear, listening for Cordelia as…
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The Forward Prize 2026 NomineeA Poetry Book Society RecommendationKeith Jarrett's dazzlingly lyrical new collection asks how we process violence when it's lionised in our language, on city street signs, in the edicts of a vengeful god. Its…
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Jorie Graham has long used her remarkably self-renewing gifts to confront the threats posed to the planet and to our humanity. Her recent work - collected in [To]The Last [Be] Human - followed by the acclaimed To 2040 - constitute a wake-up…
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