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T S Eliot Prize 2024 shortlist revealed
The shortlist for the 2024 T S Eliot Prize has been revealed, as judges have chosen poems to “make you well up, to inspire you to write, and most of all to invite you to read”. Judges Mimi Khalvati (chair), Anthony Joseph and Hannah Sullivan chose the shortlist from 187 poetry collections submitted by British and Irish publishers.
This year’s list comprises seasoned poets, two debuts, two second collections and two previously shortlisted poets from both long-established and small independent presses.
T S Eliot 2024 Prize shortlist
Signs, Music, Raymond Antrobus, Picador Poetry
Lapwing, Hannah Copley, Pavilion Poetry
The Penny Dropping, Helen Farish, Bloodaxe Books
Fierce Elegy, Peter Gizzi, Penguin Poetry
Hibbett High Jump as Icarus Story, Gustav Parker Hibbett, Banshee Press
Eleanor Among the Saints, Rachel Mann, Carcanet Press
Adam, Gboyega Odubanjo, Faber & Faber
Scattered Snows, to the North, Carl Phillips, Carcanet Press
Rhizodont, Katrina Porteous, Bloodaxe Books
Top Doll, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Dialogue Books
Chair of the judging panel Mimi Khalvati said: “Our shortlisted poets are wonderfully diverse in style, theme and idiom, embracing myth, pop culture, sport, faith, trans identity, AI – a gamut of present and past life. Throughout these collections runs a strong strain of elegy, responding to our dark times with testaments of loss and grief. There is also humour, intimacy, joy and energy – poems to make you well up, to inspire you to write, and most of all to invite you to read.”
The T S Eliot Prize 2024 Shortlist readings will take place on Sunday 12th January 2025 at 7pm in the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall as part of its literature programme. This is the largest annual poetry event in the UK. Tickets for the readings are now on sale. A live stream will also be available.
The winner of the 2024 prize will be announced at the award ceremony on Monday 13th January 2025, where the winner and the shortlisted poets will be presented with their cheques. The winner will receive a cheque for £25,000.
