T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2025

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The lode in Gillian Allnutt’s title picks up on two of the many meanings of the word. A lode can be a course, a way, a journey; also a road, a lane. Her collection traces a journey through time, the time of her own life and…

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A piercing debut about how we are made, how we get lost and how we find new selves.Framed by the story of escape from a toxic marriage, Chaotic Good focuses on the incremental ways in which power accumulates, shifts and is…

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Shortlisted for the Forward (Jerwood) Prize for Best First Collection 2025A Poetry Book Society Commendation'How the noise in my head grows and grows,splinters into phantoms and shapes,graceless muses for her cot-mobile.How I terror.'Moving…

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An eclectic gathering of work from one of the outstanding English poets of our time.'Farley's strength, throughout his career, is the delicacy of his poems' music, their soft lighting and good humour, and this book is no exception'…

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Just as an infinity pool gives the illusion of one invisible edge, the dividing line between poems and the world they process can be magically tricky to discern. Infinity Pool, Vona Groarke’s ninth poetry collection and…

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A landmark new collection from T. S. Eliot Prize-winner Sarah Howe, navigating the complex inheritance of family, language and colonialism – and forming a portrait of a mother in search of her past and herself.Unearthed in a…

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‘In this book, Nick Makoha has found an otherworldly, visionary voice and diction that arrest you from the first page and never let you go.’ Jason Allen-Paisant, Winner of the TS Eliot PrizeAn expansive new collection from one…

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A collection that captures poignant memories and persistent histories from a celebrated poet of Northern IrelandI guess I must have been in two mindsabout the new dayas the daylight godsbegan to march in straight linesgoing I don’t…

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Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2025 - Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry 2025In her fourth collection, Stay Dead, Natalie Shapero examines performance, power, comedy, and despair through the lenses of method acting…

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Wellwater demonstrates a poet writing at the height of her powers. In poems that are supple, philosophical, bracingly honest and ribbed with erudition, Wellwater conducts a self-interrogative conversation with a culture in crisis and a…