A quote from TS Eliot Prize Chair Michael Hofmann on Karen Solie's Wellwater. The text reads: 'The poems of Wellwater come from the whole of an adventurously lived life. They hold the two sentiments, The world is a beautiful place/The world is a terrible place, in perfect equipoise. They offer no happy endings, no salvation in past or future, in epiphany or private happiness. And yet they are anything but grim, with an ironic humour that plays over our increasingly euphemism-hungry culture.' In the background is a photo of the frothy sea and dark blue skies. The North Sea Poets is at the bottom.

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We're still celebrating Karen Solie's 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize for her collection 'Wellwater' (Picador Poetry). Congratulations Karen!

Read more of what Chair Michael Hoffmann and the other judges had to say: buff.ly/M30pzBF

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An announcement of Karen Solie's prize win. The text reads: 'Karen Solie: Winner of the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize. Northseapoets.com. @northseapoets.' In the foreground is a book cover in shades of green with water divining instruments. In the background is a photo of the frothy sea and dark blue skies.

Exciting #NorthSeaPoets news! ⭐

Karen Solie has won the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize for her collection 'Wellwater' (Picador Poetry). Congratulations Karen!

Read what the judges had to say: buff.ly/diwdaT6

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Poet Karen Solie at the T.S.Eliot awards ceremony. She wears a red dress and stands at a lectern.

Congratulations to Karen Solie, winner of the @tseliotprize.bsky.social with Wellwater (Picador)!

Watch Young Critic Caleb Simon's video review of the collection at www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwIJ...

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That's a wrap on the #TSEliotPrize readings tonight! Thanks to @imcmillan.bsky.social for steering us expertly through the show and to all the shortlisted poets for sharing their work. We can't wait to find out the winner tomorrow! 👀

The next poet to the stage is Gillian Allnutt, reading from Lode. Young Critic Anisha Jaya Minocha says ‘Allnutt’s poems are saturated with attentiveness to the ways in which we have lived and can live’, exploring 'transience, passage & contemplation'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nIb...

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Next, we hear from Catherine Esther-Cowie, reading from Heirloom. Young Critic Aphra Le Levier-Bennett describes Heirloom as 'beautiful and haunting', a collection that sets violence against ‘crafted moments of autonomy’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysqP...

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We are back after the interval and @imcmillan.bsky.social demonstrates redrafting with a new shirt. One for all the visual learners out there.

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'We need Natalie Shapero's light' says @imcmillan.bsky.social, introducing the writer of 'Stay Dead' to the stage. Young Critic Anna Jones says ‘Shapero’s sense of humour is a rare gift in a poetry collection’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEyo...

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Next up, recently appointed Ireland Prof of Poetry Vona Groarke reads from 'Infinity Pool', which Young Critic Freya Gillard describes as ‘a deft, thoughtful collection that bears reading and rereading, whose waters will wash up something new every time’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCNB...
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The @tseliotprize.bsky.social readings are just starting. Chair of judges Michael Hofmann starts with Eliot's Le Directeur and a... unique translation!

Now self-described 'genial host' @imcmillan.bsky.social is warming up the crowd. Bring on the patter, jokes & above all, the poems! #TSEliotPrize

Follow this link to access the T.S. Eliot Prize resources for Vona Groarke’s Infinity Pool. (Videoed readings to follow): tseliot.com/prize/work/i...
@thegallerypress.bsky.social @tseliotprize.bsky.social #poetry #tseliotprize

#TSEliotPrize 2025 #Shortlist – ‘great range, suggestiveness and power’

#Poetry #Literature

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Back in The Cornwall Poetry Library today drawing up a workshop for Falmouth Poetry Group on What can we learn from the winners? Collating inspiration from the shortlist and winners of the #TSEliotprize and @forwardprizes.bsky.social
Workshop 19 Feb Falmouth Library. 10-12pm

The #TSEliotPrize readings are now up (shall link in due course), but you can watch my short reading at the Royal Festival Hall via the link. Good lord, I am a bit theatrical … and the poem dedicated to terrified trans siblings … oh my … #poetry #trans

youtu.be/FdQCm4SAU-M?...

RM smiling broadly at TS Eliot Prize-Giving Event, credit: Adrian Pope

To balance my archdiaconal displeasure chops, here’s me in ‘delight mode’ … #TSEliotPrize #AwardCeremony Credit: Adrian Pope Photography #Poetry

‘There’s a majesty to grief’: TS Eliot poetry prize winner Peter Gizzi The American writer won the prestigious prize for Fierce Elegy, a collection informed by the deaths of his family members. He explains why poetry is like friendship – and why he loves small words

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‘There’s a majesty to grief’: #TSEliotPrize winner #PeterGizzi

Gizzi won the prize for #FierceElegy, a collection informed by the deaths of his family members.

He explains why poetry is like friendship – and why he loves small words

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

RM with a very serious ‘I am most displeased’ face, TS Eliot Prize Giving, Credit: Adrian Pope

During the #TSEliotPrize Award Ceremony photo shoot, the photographer said, ‘Let’s have a serious one…’ Here is what happened: my ‘The Archdeacon is Most Displeased’ look … 😆
Credit: Adrian Pope Photography.

Congratulations to Peter Gizzi, winner of the TS Eliot Prize for his UK edition of ‘Fierce Elegy’ (Penguin). The book is available in the US through @weslpress.bsky.social.

Read more here:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

@penguinukbooks.bsky.social
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After the very enlightening katyevansbush.bsky.social workshops on the TS Eliot Prize shortlisted books at the weekend, I'm now deciding which of them I'd like to read in full.... certainly Peter Gizzi's winning collection. Also Gboyega Odubanjo's 'Adam', and ...? #poetry #TSEliotPrize

Congratulations #PeterGizzi on winning the #TSEliotPrize with "Fierce Elegy", published by Penguin Poetry.

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Against the background of a concrete platform, a hand holds the programme for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024 showing the photos of the 10 shortlisted poets. At the bottom is the Eliot quote "For the pattern is new in every moment/ And every moment is a new and shocking/ Valuation of all we have been"

I was too engrossed in the readings to have any photos from tonight. But what a shortlist this is. So much richness of form & content in poetry right now #TSEliotPrize

Heart full, mind buzzing as I ride the bus home from the TS Eliot Prize evening. Handy that one of my layers has book-sized inner pockets. I set out with one (for the forward journey) and I'm returning home with three. Any guesses which nominee I purchased?!

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Rachel Mann outside the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank London

It’s nearly time … I hope every poet reading tonight has a marvellous experience … #TSEliotPrize #poetry #Southbank #RoyalFestivalHall

Hannah Copley (@hannahcopley.bsky.social) Writer and SL in Creative Writing at Uni of Westminster. Author of Speculum (Broken Sleep Books, 2021) and Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry, 2024). 2nd in the Laurel Prize 2024 . Shortlisted for the T.S. Elio...

Wishing the very best of luck to hannahcopley.bsky.social ‘Lapwing’ published by Pavilion Poetry @livunipress.bsky.social #TSEliotPrize #poetry

Good luck everyone: have a great evening at The Southbank Centre #TSEliotPrize #poetry

Katrina Porteous was fantastic! #TSEliotPrize

DON’T MISS THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2024 SHORTLIST READINGS – The T. S. Eliot Prize

This is going to be a huge weekend for #poetry and for me, in particular. It’s an amazing shortlist. Sorry for sounding callow, but stuff like the #Eliots doesn’t happen to people like me.
First up on Sunday the Readings … #TSEliotPrize

tseliot.com/prize/dont-m...

So, I’ve read the selection of poems in the Readers’ Notes. So many to love & return to, with such diverse voices, styles, concerns, stemming from many different traditions. I’ve been invited to the Awards & as usual will be very excited to hear the result! #tseliotprize

Eira Murphy reviews 'Fierce Elegy' by Peter Gizzi, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkhC...

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Opening poem from @adjoseph's @tseliotprize winner, 'Sonnets for Albert', published by @BloomsburyBooks. #tseliotprize #poetry