T S Eliot Prize 2016
The T S Eliot Prize 2016 is now open for submissions and the closing date will be 5 August 2016.
Submissions may only come from publishers and the Prize is only open to single-author poetry collections published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland during the calendar year of 2016.
The Prize, which is one of the world's top poetry prizes, was set up by the Poetry Book SocietySpecialist book club founded by T S Eliot in 1953, which aims to offer the best new poetry published in the UK and Ireland. Members buy at 25% discount. The PBS has a handsome new website at www.poetrybooks.co.uk in 1953 in honour of its founding poet. Since the charity the Poetry Book Society closed down in June 2016 and the book club and membership were transferred to Inpress Ltd, the Prize is now supported and run by the T S Eliot Foundation.
Ruth Padel will be Chair of the 2016 judging panel, alongside poets Julia Copus and Allan Gillis. The judges will meet in October to decide on all ten books which will make up the shortlist. The T S Eliot Prize Readings will take place in the Southbank's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 15th January 2017, to be followed by the announcement of the winner at the Award Ceremony the following night.
