The World's Top Poetry Award?

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Thursday 20th October 2011

2011 T S Eliot Prize

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T S Eliot Estate

This year’s shortlist and new three-year support announced for ‘the world’s top poetry award’

The Poetry Book Society is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2011

T S Eliot Prize for Poetry.

Judges Gillian Clarke (Chair), Stephen Knight and Dennis O’Driscoll have chosen six collections from the 104 books submitted by publishers, which join the four PBS Choices to make up the ten collections on the shortlist:

John Burnside Black Cat Bone Jonathan Cape

Carol Ann Duffy The Bees Picador

Leontia Flynn Profit and Loss Jonathan Cape

David Harsent Night Faber

John Kinsella Armour Picador

Esther Morgan Grace Bloodaxe

Daljit Nagra Tippoo Sultan's Incredible Faber

White-Man-Eating Tiger

Toy-Machine!!!

Sean O’Brien November Picador

Bernard O’Donoghue Farmer’s Cross Faber

Alice Oswald Memorial Faber

Comments

Poetry Pleases! said…

Dear Todd

Thanks for putting this up. If I were a betting man I would probably back Sean O'Brien's November. This must be the strongest short-list for several years.

Best wishes from Simon

Fri Oct 21, 11:19:00 am 2011

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