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.
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