TS Eliot prize shortlist announced

October 22, 2010 The shortlist for the 2010 TS Eliot prize, awarded to the best collection of poetry published in the UK in the past year, has been announced. Seamus Heaney’s collection Human Chain, which recently won the Forward Prize, is among the shortlisted collections.

See here for the full shortlist, which includes current and forthcoming PIW poets Pascale Petit, who will be featured in our 1 November 2010 issue, and Brian Turner, who was a guest to our 2009 festival.

The awards ceremony will take place on Monday 24 January 2011.