T. S. Eliot Prize

This article is about the prize set up and administered by the Poetry Book Society and now run by the T. S. Eliot Foundation. For the U. S. prize of the same name, see T. S. Eliot Prize (Truman State University).

The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prize for poetry awarded by the T. S. Eliot Foundation. For many years it was awarded by the Eliots' Poetry Book Society (UK) for "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland"^[1] in any particular year. The Prize was inaugurated in 1993 in celebration of the Poetry Book Society's 40th birthday and in honour of its founding poet, T. S. Eliot. Since its inception, the prize money was donated by Eliot's widow, Valerie Eliot and more recently it has been given by the T. S. Eliot Estate.

T. S. Eliot Prize
Awarded for	Best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland
Country	United Kingdom
Reward(s)	£25,000 GBP (winner) £1,500 GBP (finalists)
First awarded	1993; 31 years ago (1993)
Website	Official website

The T. S. Eliot Foundation took over the administration of the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2016, appointing as its new director Chris Holifield (formerly director of the Poetry Book Society),^[2] when the former Poetry Book Society charity had to be wound up, with its book club and company name taken over by book sales agency Inpress Ltd in Newcastle. Holifield retired at the end of June 2022 after 20 years in the post, and was replaced by Mike Sims.^[3] The winner now receives £25,000 and the ten shortlisted poets each receive £1,500, making it the United Kingdom's most valuable annual poetry competition. The Prize has been called "the most coveted award in poetry".^[4]

The shortlist for the Prize is announced in October of each year, and the 10 shortlisted poets take part in the Readings at the Royal Festival Hall in London's Southbank Centre on the evening before the announcement of the Prize.^[5] Two thousand people attended the 2011 reading.^[6]

Winners and Shortlists

1990s

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref
1993	Ciaran Carson	First Language: Poems	Gallery Press	Won	[7]
	Moniza Alvi	The Country at My Shoulder	OUP / Oxford Poetry	Shortlisted	[7]
	Patricia Beer	Friend of Heraclitus	Carcanet Press
	Carol Ann Duffy	Mean Time	Anvil Press
	Douglas Dunn	Dante's Drum Kit	Faber & Faber
	James Fenton	Out of Danger	Penguin Poetry
	Stephen Knight	Flowering Limbs	Bloodaxe Books
	Les Murray	Translations from the Natural World	Carcanet Press
	Sharon Olds	The Father	Secker & Warburg
	Don Paterson	Nil Nil	Faber & Faber
1994	Paul Muldoon	The Annals of Chile	Faber & Faber	Won	[7]
	John Burnside	The Myth of the Twin	Cape Poetry	Shortlisted	[7]
	Eavan Boland	In a Time of Violence	Carcanet Press
	W. N. Herbert	Forked Tongue	Bloodaxe Books
	Kathleen Jamie	The Queen of Sheba	Bloodaxe Books
	Geoffrey Lehmann	Spring Forest	Angus & Robertson
	Tom Paulin	Walking a Line	Faber & Faber
	Peter Porter	Millenial Fables	OUP / Oxford Poetry
	Hugo Williams	Dock Leaves	OUP / Oxford Poetry
	Gerard Woodward	After the Deafening	Chatto & Windus
1995	Mark Doty	My Alexandria	Cape Poetry	Won	[7]
	Simon Armitage	The Dead Sea Poems	Faber & Faber	Shortlisted	[7]
	Ian Duhig	The Mersey Goldfish	Bloodaxe Books
	Michael Longley	The Ghost Orchid	Cape Poetry
	Glyn Maxwell	Rest for the Wicked	Bloodaxe Books
	Bernard O'Donoghue	Gunpowder	Chatto & Windus
	Katherine Pierpoint	Truffle Beds	Faber & Faber
	Maurice Riordan	A Word from the Loki	Faber & Faber
	Jackie Wills	Powder Tower	Arc Poetry
	Glyn Wright	Could Have Been Funny	Spike
1996	Les Murray	Subhuman Redneck Poems	Carcanet Press	Won	[7]
	Ciaran Carson	Opera Et Cetera	Bloodaxe Books / Gallery Press	Shortlisted	[7]
	Maura Dooley	Kissing A Bone	Bloodaxe Books
	John Fuller	Stones and Fires	Chatto & Windus
	Seamus Heaney	The Spirit Level	Faber & Faber
	Stephen Knight	Dream City Cinema	Bloodaxe Books
	Adrian Mitchell	Blue Coffee	Bloodaxe Books
	Alice Oswald	The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile	OUP / Oxford Poetry
	Christopher Reid	Expanded Universes	Faber & Faber
	Susan Wicks	The Clever Daughter	Faber & Faber
1997	Don Paterson	God's Gift to Women	Faber & Faber	Won	[7]
	Fleur Adcock	Looking Back	OUP / Oxford Poetry	Shortlisted	[7]
	Gillian Allnutt	Nantucket and the Angel	Bloodaxe Books
	Helen Dunmore	Bestiary	Bloodaxe Books
	Selima Hill	Violet	Bloodaxe Books
	Jamie McKendrick	The Marble Fly	OUP / Oxford Poetry
	Peter Reading	Work in Regress	Bloodaxe Books
	Matthew Sweeney	The Bridal Suite	Cape Poetry
	Derek Walcott	The Bounty	Faber & Faber
	John Hartley Williams	Canada	Bloodaxe Books
1998	Ted Hughes	Birthday Letters	Faber & Faber	Won	[7]
	Sarah Corbett	The Red Wardrobe	Seren Books	Shortlisted	[7]
	Fred D'Aguiar	Bill of Rights	Chatto & Windus
	David Harsent	A Bird's Idea of Flight	Faber & Faber
	Jackie Kay	Off Colour	Bloodaxe Books
	Glyn Maxwell	The Breakage	Faber & Faber
	Paul Muldoon	Hay	Faber & Faber
	Ruth Padel	Rembrandt Would Have Loved You	Chatto & Windus
	Jo Shapcott	My Life Asleep	OUP / Oxford Poetry
	Ken Smith	Wild Root	Bloodaxe Books
1999	Hugo Williams	Billy's Rain	Faber & Faber	Won	[7]
	Anne Carson	Autobiography of Red	Cape Poetry	Shortlisted	[7]
	Carol Ann Duffy	The World's Wife	Picador Poetry
	Paul Durcan	Greetings to our Friends in Brazil	Harvill Press
	Michael Hofmann	Approximately Nowhere	Faber & Faber
	Kathleen Jamie	Jizzen	Picador Poetry
	Michael Laskey	The Tightrope Wedding	Smith/Doorstop
	Bernard O'Donoghue	Here Nor There	Chatto & Windus
	Tom Paulin	The Wind Dog	Faber & Faber
	C. K. Williams	Repair	Bloodaxe Books

2000s

2001 saw Canadian poet Anne Carson become the first woman to win the TS Eliot Prize.

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref
2000	Michael Longley	The Weather in Japan	Cape Poetry	Won	[7]
	John Burnside	The Asylum Dance	Cape Poetry	Shortlisted	[7]
	Anne Carson	Men in the Off Hours	Cape Poetry
	Michael Donaghy	Conjure	Picador Poetry
	Douglas Dunn	The Year's Afternoon	Faber & Faber
	Thom Gunn	Boss Cupid	Faber & Faber
	Alan Jenkins	The Drift	Chatto & Windus
	Roddy Lumsden	The Book of Love	Bloodaxe Books
	Anne Stevenson	Granny Scarecrow	Bloodaxe Books
	Derek Walcott	Tiepolo's Hound	Faber & Faber
2001	Anne Carson	The Beauty of the Husband	Cape Poetry	Won	[8]
	Gillian Allnutt	Lintel	Bloodaxe Books	Shortlisted	[7]
	Charles Boyle	The Age of Cardboard and String	Faber & Faber
	Seamus Heaney	Electric Light	Faber & Faber
	Geoffrey Hill	Speech! Speech!	Penguin Poetry
	Selima Hill	Bunny	Bloodaxe Books
	James Lasdun	Landscape with Chainsaw	Cape Poetry
	Sean O'Brien	Downriver	Picador Poetry
	Pascale Petit	The Zoo Father	Seren Books
	Michael Symmons Roberts	Burning Babylon	Cape Poetry
2002	Alice Oswald	Dart	Faber & Faber	Won	[9]
	Simon Armitage	The Universal Home Doctor	Faber & Faber	Shortlisted	[9]
	John Burnside	The Light Trap	Cape Poetry
	Paul Farley	The Ice Age	Picador Poetry
	David Harsent	Marriage	Faber & Faber
	Geoffrey Hill	The Orchards of Syon	Penguin Poetry
	E. A. Markham	A Rough Climate	Anvil Press
	Sinéad Morrissey	Between Here and There	Carcanet Press
	Paul Muldoon	Moy Sand and Gravel	Faber & Faber
	Ruth Padel	Voodoo Shop	Chatto & Windus
2003	Don Paterson	Landing Light	Faber & Faber	Won	[10]
	Billy Collins	Nine Horses	Picador Poetry	Shortlisted	[11]
	John F. Deane	Manhandling the Deity	Carcanet Press
	Ian Duhig	The Lammas Hireling	Picador Poetry
	Lavinia Greenlaw	Minsk	Faber & Faber
	Jamie McKendrick	Ink Stone	Faber & Faber
	Bernard O'Donoghue	Outiving	Chatto & Windus
	Jacob Polley	The Brink	Picador Poetry
	Christopher Reid	For and After	Faber & Faber
	Jean Sprackland	Hard Water	Cape Poetry
2004	George Szirtes	Reel	Bloodaxe Books	Won	[7]
	Colette Bryce	The Full Indian Rope Trick	Picador Poetry	Shortlisted	[7]
	Kathryn Gray	The Never-Never	Seren Books
	Kathleen Jamie	The Tree House	Picador Poetry
	Michael Longley	Snow Water	Cape Poetry
	Ruth Padel	The Soho Leopard	Chatto & Windus
	Tom Paulin	The Road to Inver	Faber & Faber
	Peter Porter	Afterburner	Picador Poetry
	Michael Symmons Roberts	Corpus	Cape Poetry
	John Hartley Williams	Blues	Cape Poetry
2005	Carol Ann Duffy	Rapture	Picador Poetry	Won	[12]
	Polly Clark	Take Me with You	Bloodaxe Books	Shortlisted	[12]
	Helen Farish	Intimates	Cape Poetry
	David Harsent	Legion	Faber & Faber
	Sinéad Morrissey	The State of the Prisons	Carcanet Press
	Alice Oswald	Woods etc	Faber & Faber
	Pascale Petit	The Huntress	Seren Books
	Sheenagh Pugh	The Movement of Bodies	Seren Books
	John Stammers	Stolen Love Behaviour	Picador Poetry
	Gerard Woodward	We Were Pedestrians	Chatto & Windus
2006	Seamus Heaney	District and Circle	Faber & Faber	Won	[13]
	Simon Armitage	Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid	Faber & Faber	Shortlisted	[13]
	Paul Farley	Tramp in Flames	Picador Poetry
	W. N. Herbert	Bad Shaman Blues	Bloodaxe Books
	Jane Hirshfield	After	Bloodaxe Books
	Tim Liardet	The Blood Choir	Seren Books
	Paul Muldoon	Horse Latitudes	Faber & Faber
	Robin Robertson	Swithering	Picador Poetry
	Penelope Shuttle	Redgrove's Wife	Bloodaxe Books
	Hugo Williams	Dear Room	Faber & Faber
2007	Sean O'Brien	The Drowned Book	Picador Poetry	Won	[14]
	Ian Duhig	The Speed of Dark	Picador Poetry	Shortlisted	[15]
	Alan Gillis	Hawks and Doves	Gallery Press
	Sophie Hannah	Pessimism for Beginners	Carcanet Press
	Mimi Khalvati	The Meanest Flower	Carcanet Press
	Frances Leviston	Public Dream	Picador Poetry
	Sarah Maguire	The Pomegranates of Kandahar	Chatto & Windus
	Edwin Morgan	A Book of Lives	Carcanet Press
	Fiona Sampson	Common Prayer	Carcanet Press
	Matthew Sweeney	Black Moon	Cape Poetry
2008	Jen Hadfield	Nigh-No-Place	Bloodaxe Books	Won	[16]
	Moniza Alvi	Europa	Bloodaxe Books	Shortlisted	[17]
	Peter Bennet	The Glass Swarm	Flambard Press
	Ciarán Carson	For All We Know	Gallery Press
	Robert Crawford	Full Volume	Cape Poetry
	Maura Dooley	Life Under Water	Bloodaxe Books
	Mark Doty	Theories and Apparitions	Cape Poetry
	Mick Imlah	The Lost Leader	Faber & Faber
	Glyn Maxwell	Hide Now	Picador Poetry
	Stephen Romer	Yellow Studio	Carcanet Press
2009	Philip Gross	The Water Table	Bloodaxe Books	Won	[18][19]
	Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin	The Sun-fish	Gallery Press	Shortlisted	[20][21]
	Fred D'Aguiar	Continental Shelf	Carcanet Press
	Jane Draycott	Over	Carcanet Press
	Sinéad Morrissey	Through the Square Window	Carcanet Press
	Sharon Olds	One Secret Thing	Cape Poetry
	Alice Oswald	Weeds & Wild Flowers	Faber & Faber
	Christopher Reid	A Scattering	Areté
	George Szirtes	The Burning of the Books and Other Poems	Bloodaxe Books
	Hugo Williams	West End Final	Faber & Faber

2010s

2011 saw two shortlisted nominees, including 2002 winner Alice Oswald, withdraw their works as a protest against the sponsor.

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref
2010	Derek Walcott	White Egrets	Faber & Faber	Won	[22]
	Simon Armitage	Seeing Stars	Faber & Faber	Shortlisted	[23][24]
	Annie Freud	The Mirabelles	Picador Poetry
	John Haynes	You	Seren Books
	Seamus Heaney	Human Chain	Faber & Faber
	Pascale Petit	What the Water Gave Me	Seren Books
	Robin Robertson	The Wrecking Light	Picador Poetry
	Fiona Sampson	Rough Music	Carcanet Press
	Brian Turner	Phantom Noise	Bloodaxe Books
	Sam Willetts	New Light for the Old Dark	Cape Poetry
2011	John Burnside	Black Cat Bone	Cape Poetry	Won	[25]
	Carol Ann Duffy	The Bees	Picador Poetry	Shortlisted	[26]
	Leontia Flynn	Profit and Loss	Cape Poetry
	David Harsent	Night	Faber & Faber
	John Kinsella	Armour (withdrawn by the author in protest)[27]	Faber & Faber
	Esther Morgan	Grace	Bloodaxe Books
	Daljit Nagra	Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!	Faber & Faber
	Sean O'Brien	November	Picador Poetry
	Bernard O'Donoghue	Farmer's Cross	Faber & Faber
	Alice Oswald	Memorial (withdrawn by the author in protest)[28][29]	Faber & Faber
2012	Sharon Olds	Stag's Leap	Cape Poetry	Won	[30][31]
	Simon Armitage	The Death of King Arthur	Faber & Faber	Shortlisted	[32]
	Sean Borodale	Bee Journal	Cape Poetry
	Gillian Clarke	Ice	Carcanet Press
	Julia Copus	The World's Two Smallest Humans	Faber & Faber
	Paul Farley	The Dark Film	Picador Poetry
	Jorie Graham	P L A C E	Carcanet Press
	Kathleen Jamie	The Overhaul	Picador Poetry
	Jacob Polley	The Havocs	Picador Poetry
	Deryn Rees-Jones	Burying the Wren	Seren Books
2013	Sinéad Morrissey	Parallax	Carcanet Press	Won	[33]
	Dannie Abse	Speak, Old Parrot	Hutchinson	Shortlisted	[34][35]
	Moniza Alvi	At the Time of Partition	Bloodaxe Books
	Anne Carson	Red Doc>	Cape Poetry
	Helen Mort	Division Street	Chatto & Windus
	Daljit Nagra	Ramayana: A Retelling	Faber & Faber
	Maurice Riordan	The Water Stealer	Faber & Faber
	Robin Robertson	Hill of Doors	Picador Poetry
	Michael Symmons Roberts	Drysalter	Cape Poetry
	George Szirtes	Bad Machine	Bloodaxe Books
2014	David Harsent	Fire Songs	Faber & Faber	Won	[36]
	Fiona Benson	Bright Travellers	Cape Poetry	Shortlisted	[37]
	John Burnside	All One Breath	Cape Poetry
	Louise Glück	Faithful and Virtuous Night	Carcanet Press
	Michael Longley	The Stairwell	Cape Poetry
	Ruth Padel	Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth	Chatto & Windus
	Pascale Petit	Fauverie	Poetry Wales Press
	Kevin Powers	Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting	Little, Brown / Sceptre
	Arundhathi Subramaniam	When God is a Traveller	Bloodaxe Books
	Hugo Williams	I Knew the Bride	Faber & Faber
2015	Sarah Howe	Loop of Jade	Chatto & Windus	Won	[38][39]
	Mark Doty	Deep Lane	Cape Poetry	Shortlisted	[40]
	Tracey Herd	Not in This World	Bloodaxe Books
	Selima Hill	Jutland	Bloodaxe Books
	Tim Liardet	The World Before Snow	Carcanet Press
	Les Murray	Waiting for the Past	Carcanet Press
	Sean O'Brien	The Beautiful Librarians	Picador Poetry
	Don Paterson	40 Sonnets	Faber & Faber
	Rebecca Perry	Beauty/Beauty	Bloodaxe Books
	Claudia Rankine	Citizen: An American Lyric	Penguin Poetry
2016	Jacob Polley	Jackself	Picador Poetry	Won	[41][42]
	Rachael Boast	Void Studies	Picador Poetry	Shortlisted	[43]
	Vahni Capildeo	Measures of Expatriation	Carcanet Press
	Ian Duhig	The Blind Road-Maker	Picador Poetry
	J. O. Morgan	Interference Pattern	Cape Poetry
	Bernard O'Donoghue	The Seasons of Cullen Church	Faber & Faber
	Alice Oswald	Falling Awake	Cape Poetry
	Denise Riley	Say Something Back	Picador Poetry
	Ruby Robinson	Every Little Sound	Pavilion / Liverpool University Press
	Katharine Towers	The Remedies	Picador Poetry
2017	Ocean Vuong	Night Sky with Exit Wounds	Cape Poetry	Won	[44]
	Tara Bergin	The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx	Carcanet Press	Shortlisted	[45]
	Caroline Bird	In these Days of Prohibition	Carcanet Press
	Douglas Dunn	The Noise of a Fly	Faber & Faber
	Leontia Flynn	The Radio	Cape Poetry
	Roddy Lumsden	So Glad I'm Me	Bloodaxe Books
	Michael Symmons Roberts	Mancunia	Cape Poetry
	Robert Minhinnick	Diary of the Last Man	Carcanet Press
	James Sheard	The Abandoned Settlements	Cape Poetry
	Jacqueline Saphra	All My Mad Mothers	Nine Arches Press
2018	Hannah Sullivan	Three Poems	Faber & Faber	Won	[46][47]
	Ailbhe Darcy	Insistence	Bloodaxe Books	Shortlisted	[48]
	Terrance Hayes	American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins	Penguin Poetry
	Zaffar Kunial	Us	Faber & Faber
	Nick Laird	Feel Free	Faber & Faber
	Fiona Moore	The Distal Point	HappenStance
	Sean O'Brien	Europa	Picador Poetry
	Phoebe Power	Shrines of Upper Austria	Carcanet Press
	Richard Scott	Soho	Faber & Faber
	Tracy K. Smith	Wade in the Water	Penguin Poetry
2019	Roger Robinson	A Portable Paradise	Peepal Tree Press	Won	[49]
	Anthony Anaxagorou	After the Formalities	Penned in the Margins	Shortlisted	[50]
	Fiona Benson	Vertigo and Ghost	Cape Poetry
	Jay Bernard	Surge	Chatto & Windus
	Paul Farley	The Mizzy	Picador Poetry
	Ilya Kaminsky	Deaf Republic	Faber & Faber
	Sharon Olds	Arias	Cape Poetry
	Vidyan Ravinthiran	The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here	Bloodaxe Books
	Deryn Rees-Jones	Erato	Seren Books
	Karen Solie	The Caiplie Caves	Picador Poetry

2020s

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref
2020	Bhanu Kapil	How to Wash a Heart	Pavilion Poetry	Won	[51]
	Natalie Diaz	Postcolonial Love Poem	Faber & Faber	Shortlisted	[52]
	Sasha Dugdale	Deformations	Carcanet Press
	Ella Frears	Shine, Darling	Offord Road Books
	Will Harris	RENDANG	Granta Poetry
	Wayne Holloway-Smith	Love Minus Love	Bloodaxe Books
	Daisy Lafarge	Life Without Air	Granta Poetry
	Glyn Maxwell	How the Hell Are You	Picador Poetry
	Shane McCrae	Sometimes I Never Suffered	Corsair Poetry
	J. O. Morgan	The Martian's Regress	Cape Poetry
2021	Joelle Taylor	C+nto & Othered Poems	The Westbourne Press	Won	[53][54]
	Raymond Antrobus	All the Names Given	Picador Poetry	Shortlisted	[55]
	Kayo Chingonyi	A Blood Condition	Chatto & Windus
	Selima Hill	Men Who Feed Pigeons	Bloodaxe Books
	Victoria Kennefick	Eat or We Both Starve	Carcanet Press
	Hannah Lowe	The Kids	Bloodaxe Books
	Michael Symmons Roberts	Ransom	Cape Poetry
	Daniel Sluman	single window	Nine Arches Press
	Jack Underwood	A Year in the New Life	Faber & Faber
	Kevin Young	Stones	Cape Poetry
2022	Anthony Joseph	Sonnets for Albert	Bloomsbury	Won	[56][57]
	Victoria Adukwei Bulley	Quiet	Faber & Faber	Shortlisted	[58]
	Fiona Benson	Ephemeron	Cape Poetry
	Jemma Borg	Wilder	Pavilion Poetry
	Philip Gross	The Thirteenth Angel	Bloodaxe Books
	Zaffar Kunial	England's Green	Faber & Faber
	Mark Pajak	Slide	Cape Poetry
	James Conor Patterson	bandit country	Picador Poetry
	Denise Saul	The Room Between Us	Pavilion Poetry
	Yomi Sode	Manorism	Penguin
2023	Jason Allen-Paisant	Self-Portrait as Othello	Carcanet Press	Won	[59]
	Joe Carrick-Varty	More Sky	Carcanet Press	Shortlisted	[60]
	Jane Clarke	A Change in the Air	Bloodaxe Books
	Kit Fan	The Ink Cloud Reader	Carcanet Press
	Katie Farris	Standing in the Forest of Being Alive	Pavilion Poetry / Liverpool University Press
	Ishion Hutchinson	School of Instructions	Faber & Faber
	Fran Lock	Hyena!	Poetry Bus Press
	Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin	The Map of the World	Gallery Press
	Sharon Olds	Balladz	Cape Poetry
	Abigail Parry	I Think We're Alone Now	Bloodaxe Books
2024	Raymond Antrobus	Signs, Music	Picador Poetry	Shortlisted	[61]
	Hannah Copley	Lapwing	Pavilion Poetry / Liverpool University Press
	Helen Farish	The Penny Dropping	Bloodaxe Books
	Peter Gizzi	Fierce Elegy	Penguin
	Gustav Parker Hibbett	High Jump as Icarus Story	Banshee Press
	Rachel Mann	Eleanor Among the Saints	Carcanet Press
	Gboyega Odubanjo	Adam	Faber & Faber
	Carl Phillips	Scattered Snows, to the North	Carcanet Press
	Katrina Porteous	Rhizodont	Bloodaxe Books
	Karen McCarthy Woolf	Top Doll	Dialogue Books

List of judges

• 1993 – Peter Porter, Fleur Adcock, Edna Longley, Robert Crawford and John Lucas
• 1994 – Elaine Feinstein, Ciaran Carson, Robert Crawford, John Fuller and Candia McWilliam
• 1995 – James Fenton, Maura Dooley and Liz Lochhead
• 1996 – Andrew Motion, Helen Dunmore and Ruth Padel
• 1997 – Gillian Clarke, Sean O’Brien and Hugo Williams
• 1998 – Bernard O’Donoghue, Simon Armitage and Maura Dooley
• 1999 – Blake Morrison, Selima Hill and Jamie McKendrick
• 2000 – Paul Muldoon, Glyn Maxwell and Kathleen Jamie
• 2001 – John Burnside, Helen Dunmore and Maurice Riordan
• 2002 – Michael Longley, Fred D’Aguiar and Deryn Rees-Jones
• 2003 – David Harsent, Mimi Khalvati and George Szirtes
• 2004 – Douglas Dunn, Paul Farley and Carol Rumens
• 2005 – David Constantine, Kate Clanchy and Jane Draycott
• 2006 – Sophie Hannah, Gwyneth Lewis and Sean O'Brien
• 2007 – Sujata Bhatt, W. N. Herbert and Peter Porter
• 2008 – Lavinia Greenlaw, Tobias Hill and Andrew Motion
• 2009 – Simon Armitage, Colette Bryce and Penelope Shuttle
• 2010 – Bernardine Evaristo, Anne Stevenson and Michael Symmons Roberts
• 2011 – Gillian Clarke, Stephen Knight and Dennis O'Driscoll
• 2012 – Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Longley and David Morley
• 2013 – Imtiaz Dharker, Ian Duhig and Vicki Feaver
• 2014 – Sean Borodale, Helen Dunmore and Fiona Sampson
• 2015 – Kei Miller, Pascale Petit and Ahren Warner
• 2016 – Julia Copus, Ruth Padel and Alan Gillis
• 2017 – W. N. Herbert, James Lasdun and Helen Mort
• 2018 – Clare Pollard, Sinéad Morrissey and Daljit Nagra
• 2019 – John Burnside, Sarah Howe and Nick Makoha
• 2020 – Lavinia Greenlaw, Mona Arshi and Andrew McMillan
• 2021 – Glyn Maxwell, Caroline Bird and Zaffar Kunial
• 2022 – Jean Sprackland, Hannah Lowe and Roger Robinson
• 2023 – Paul Muldoon, Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul
• 2024 – Mimi Khalvati, Anthony Joseph and Hannah Sullivan

See also

• List of British literary awards
• List of poetry awards
• List of literary awards
• English poetry
• English literature
• British literature
• List of years in literature
• List of years in poetry

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External links

• T.S. Eliot Prize website
• "The Book Club for Poetry Lovers". Poetry Book Society.