Lines from East Coker on Good Friday.

Burnt Norton, the first of Eliot's Four Quartets, was published 90 years ago today in Collected Poems 1909-1935.

#tseliot #burntnorton #fourquartets #poetry #onthisday

While visiting London in March 1926, Henry Ware Eliot Jr photographed his brother at his new place of work – the Faber & Gwyer offices at 24 Russell Square in the heart of Bloomsbury.

#100yearsago #tseliot #faber #publishinghistory #london

What do these people have in common, you ask?

They all feature in the online supplement to Volume 10 of The Letters of T. S. Eliot (1942-1944) which is now live on our website!

Explore the letters here: bit.ly/3NTJjs2

#tseliot #thelettersoftseliot #letters

The views of 30 year-old T. S. Eliot in his essay ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, published in The Egoist in 1919.

Read the essay: tseliot.com/essays/tradi...

#tseliot #poetry #poets #criticism

Stefan Collini · Capital Brandy: Eliot on the Run For much of the second half of his life, T.S. Eliot was a man on the run, retreating to actual or symbolic boltholes,...

‘Eliot’s letters contain precious few unguarded moments, and even when writing to his friend he mostly sustained a playful or entertaining register that was another sort of performance.’

Stefan Collini:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A special #shelfie of novels from T. S. Eliot's library in celebration of #WorldBookDay

The volumes include Gulliver's Travers, The House of Seven Gables, Maigret S'Amuse, and Don Quixote.

#WorldBookDay2026

'The river is within us, the sea is all about us;
The sea is the land’s edge also, the granite
Into which it reaches, the beaches where it tosses
Its hints of earlier and other creation:
The starfish, the horseshoe crab, the whale’s backbone'

— The Dry Salvages, 85 yrs old today

'Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
But merely vans to beat the air
The air which is now thoroughly small and dry
Smaller and dryer than the will
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.'

— T. S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday

'I don’t know what a Goon Cat is, but he looks to me suspiciously like my old enemy the Tantamile Cat... all you can say is that he is sub-human. He has a yellow eye like an addled egg, and looks like a maneating tyger...'

— TSE to Frank Morley #OTD 1940

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Rory Kinnear is Wallace Stevens at the next Dead Poets Live.

How to Feel Everything: Why you Need Wallace Stevens
7pm, 11 & 13 February at Wilton's Music Hall

More info & tickets: deadpoets.live/event/wallac...

'At the end we preferred to travel all night,
Sleeping in snatches,
With the voices singing in our ears, saying
That this was all folly.'

Listen to Daniel Day Lewis read Journey of the Magi on the Feast of the Epiphany.

tseliot.com/poetry/ariel...

@faberbooks.bsky.social

'We die with the dying:
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them.'

Remembering T. S. Eliot who died on 4th January 1965

'When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire,
The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches,
In windless cold that is the heart’s heat,
Reflecting in a watery mirror
A glare that is blindness in the early afternoon.'

— Little Gidding

#Wintersolstice

Four Quartets at Marylebone Theatre Four Quartets at Marylebone Theatre from Feb 08, 2026 to . spoken word

On Sun 8 Feb, Marylebone Theatre is hosting a programme of music & readings from Four Quartets.

From 1 to 28 February 2026, a selection of paintings by artist Jérémie Queyras, inspired by Four Quartets will be on display in the theatre foyer.

More info: marylebonetheatre.com/productions/...

'...the question whether one is a writer at all is one which constantly asks itself and I think ought to go on asking itself from time to time...I have never got rid of it myself and it attacks me from time to time most unexpectedly.'

—8 Sep 1943

#writers
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Adrian Dunbar: TS Eliot's The Waste Land | Southbank Centre

Last chance to see Adrian Dunbar's setting of The Waste Land at the Southbank tonight!
Performances at 6pm and 8pm.

@FaberBooks @southbankcentre

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/adr...

TS Eliot’s 20th-century nightmare | The Observer

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ADRIAN DUNBAR: T.S. ELIOT'S THE WASTE LAND AT MIDDLE TEMPLE HALL Directed by Adrian Dunbar, with score by Nick Roth, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land in the rarely-accessible Middle Temple is a must-see.

Adrian Dunbar's staging of The Waste Land, with a score by Nick Roth, will be performed at
@middletemple
Hall on Tuesday 18 Nov @ 7pm and
@southbankcentre
on Wednesday 19 Nov @ 6pm and 8pm

Info & tickets:
fleetstreetquarter.co.uk/copy-of-even...

'Eliot was not only a prolific, but also a powerful prose writer.
...
The most important picture that emerges from these thousands of pages is that of a writer who works hard at writing both as a means of expression and as a mode of thought.''

hudsonreview.com/2025/10/what...

The latest exhibition at @WorldChessHOF features two items from our collection: a pocket chess set used by T S Eliot's father, Henry Ware Eliot, during the 1st World War to play correspondence chess with his son, & Henry's notebook of chess problems and solutions.
worldchesshof.org/program/2025...

Book review: The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 10, 1942-1944, edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden Richard Harries reads wartime letters from the poet T. S. Eliot

'The period of these letters covers the time when Eliot was at the height of his fame as poet, critic, and Christian spokesman. They also reveal the very best side of his nature...
Once again, Haffenden has done a brilliant job'

www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Colm Tóibín will give this year's T. S. Eliot Lecture at the @AbbeyTheatre in Dublin.

The lecture, titled 'The Road to Little Gidding Yeats, Auden, Eliot 1939, 1940, 1941' will be delivered on Sunday 14 December.

www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/t-s...

#TSEliotLecture

Slow Burn a biannual collection of lyric poetry

We're delighted to support Slow Burn, a biannual collection of new lyric poetry, edited by Callum MacKillop. The first edition is available to purchase now: slowburnpoetry.com

Chris Holifield

We are deeply saddened to share the news that Chris Holifield, Director of the Poetry Book Society 2003–16 and Director of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2016–22, died on 3 September 2025.

Read our tribute to Chris in full: tseliot.com/prize/a-tire...

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

'HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight.
Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight.
Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.'

Happy #nationalpoetryday2025

The Waste Land: tseliot.com/poetry/the-w...