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T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlist Announced

By Harriet Staff

Which we got from this announcement at the New Statesman:

The shortlist for the TS Eliot Prize for poetry was announced today. The judges, Gillian Clarke, Stephen Knight and Dennis O’Driscoll, chose six collections to accompany the four Poetry Book Society choices to make up the ten collections on the shortlist:

John Burnside, Black Cat Bone, Jonathan Cape
Carol Ann Duffy, The Bees, Picador
Leontia Flynn, Profit and Loss, Jonathan Cape
David Harsent, Night, Faber
John Kinsella, Armour, Picador
Esther Morgan, Grace, Bloodaxe
Daljit Nagra, Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!, Faber
Sean O’Brien, November, Picador
Bernard O’Donoghue, Farmer’s Cross, Faber
Alice Oswald, Memorial, Faber

Posted in Poetry News on Thursday, October 20th, 2011 by Harriet Staff.