T. S. Eliot Prize

Intense, uplifting and profound, with content that can present challenging content and themes, the T. S. Eliot Prize YouTube channel showcases readings and performances by T. S. Eliot Prize winners and poets shortlisted since 2016.

The Prize, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2023, is awarded annually to the writer of the best poetry collection published in the UK and Ireland. Winners (1993-2022) are: Ciaran Carson, Paul Muldoon, Mark Doty, Les Murray, Don Paterson, Ted Hughes, Hugo Williams, Michael Longley, Anne Carson, Alice Oswald, Don Paterson (for the second time), George Szirtes, Carol Ann Duffy, Seamus Heaney, Sean O’Brien, Jen Hadfield, Philip Gross, Derek Walcott, John Burnside, Sharon Olds, Sinéad Morrissey, David Harsent, Sarah Howe, Jacob Polley, Ocean Vuong, Hannah Sullivan, Roger Robinson, Bhanu Kapil, Joelle Taylor and Anthony Joseph.

The T. S. Eliot Prize is generously funded by The T. S. Eliot Foundation. For more information, visit tseliot.com/prize