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T S Eliot Prize for Poetry

Awarded by the Poetry Book Society, of which TS Eliot was a founder member in 1953 | Winners | T S Eliot Prize 2001 Shortlist Awards are announced in the following year

2001 Anne Carson for The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos | Hardcover | Paperback

T S Eliot Prize for Poetry

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T S Eliot, Nobel Laureate 1948,  founded the Poetry Book Society to promote a love and understanding of contemporary poetry.

The Poetry Book Society is a membership organization which keeps poetry lovers around the world up to date with the best new English language poetry being published in the UK and Ireland. How to join

The TS Eliot Prize is awarded to the best collection of new poetry published in the UK and Ireland in the past year.

Shortlist 2001: The Poetry Book Society is pleased to announce the Shortlist for the T S Eliot Prize 2001, to be awarded to the writer of the best new collection of poetry published in 2001. Judges Helen Dunmore (Chair), John Burnside and Maurice Riordan chose the following ten collections:

Gillian Allnutt Lintel
Charles Boyle The Age of Cardboard and String
Anne Carson The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
| Hardcover | Paperback
Seamus Heaney
for Electric Light | Hardcover
Geoffrey Hill
for Speech! Speech! | Hardcover
Selima Hill
for Bunny | Paperback
James Lasdun
for Landscape With Chainsaw | Hardcover
Sean O'Brien Downriver
Pascale Petit The Zoo Father
Michael Symmons Roberts Burning Babylon

The winner is presented with a check for £10,000.

TS Eliot Poetry Awards Winners

Given the following year

2000 Michael Longley The Weather in Japan | Hardcover | Paperback | Whitbread Poetry Prize 1991 for Gorse Fires | Paperback

1999 Hugo Williams | Paperback

1998 Ted Hughes for Birthday Letters | Paperback, Ted Hughes' collection of poems about his marriage to Sylvia Plath  British Book Awards Book of the Year 1999 | Whitbread Book of the Year Award 1998.  Whitbread Book of the Year Award 1997: Tales from Ovid | Paperback

1997 Don Paterson God's Gift to Women | Paperback

1996 Les Murray Subhuman Redneck Poems | Hardcover | Paperback

1995 My Alexandria by Mark Doty | Hardcover | Paperback | My Alexandria won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for 1993.

1994 Paul Muldoon The Annals of Chile | Hardcover | Paperback

1993 Ciaran Carson First Language: Poems | Hardcover | Paperback

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