Don Paterson & Sarah Howe on TS Eliot Prize shortlist

The short list for this year’s TS Eliot Prize has just been announced, and two of the poets reading at this year's Woodstock Poetry Festival are among those chosen – Don Paterson and Sarah Howe. Judges were Kei Miller (also reading, with Don Paterson, on Friday 13 November), Ahren Warner and Pascale Petit (chair). 

 

Here is the full short list:

Tracey Herd, Not in this World

Selima Hill, Jutland

Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty – all published by Bloodaxe

Tim Liardet, The World Before Snow

Les Murray, Waiting for the Past – both published by Carcanet

Mark Doty, Deep Lane (Cape)

Sarah Howe, Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus)

Sean O’Brien, The Beautiful Librarians (Picador)

Don Paterson, 40 Sonnets (Faber)

Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Penguin)

Pascale Petit is chair of the judges, with Kei Miller and Ahren Warner. 

Prize readings take place in London on 10 January – an extraordinary event, usually packed, in the Festival Hall.