The T. S. Eliot Prize

 

The T. S. Eliot Prize is administered by the Poetry Book Society. It is awarded to the best new collection of poetry published in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland in the calendar year preceding the year in which the award is presented.

The value of the prize is £10,000.

1993 Ciaran Carson First Language
1994 Paul Muldoon The Annals of Chile
1995 Mark Doty My Alexandria
1996 Les Murray Subhuman Redneck Poems
1997 Don Paterson God's Gift to Women
1998 Ted Hughes Birthday Letters
1999 Hugo Williams Billy's Rain
2000 Michael Longley The Weather in Japan
2001 Anne Carson The Beauty of the Husband
2002 Alice Oswald Dart
2003 Don Paterson Landing Light
2004 George Szirtes Reel
2005 Carol Ann Duffy Rapture
2006 Seamus Heaney District and Circle
2007 Sean O'Brien The Drowned Book

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