John Field | Poor Rude Lines

We're delighted that Gillian Allnutt has been shortlisted for the 2025 @tseliotprize.bsky.social for her tenth poetry collection Lode. Many congratulations to all ten shortlisted poets.
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I’ve been reading Bernard O’Donoghue’s The Anchorage: johnfield.org/2025/07/03/b... #poetry @faberbooks.bsky.social

2025 T. S. Eliot Prize Open for submissions until 31 July 2025

The T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 is open for submissions! Publishers can find out more information and how to submit online now: tseliot.com/prize/open-f...

Patience Agbabi

Niall Campbell

Michael Hofmann

The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the judges for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025. Michael Hofmann will chair and will be joined on the panel by fellow poets Patience Agbabi and Niall Campbell.

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If you've enjoyed this poem from my second full collection, Whatever You Do, Just Don't, please do consider getting hold of the book itself. Just drop me a DM and I’ll sort out a signed copy for you! No problem to ship to the U.S., U.K., Canada or mainland Europe…

A Fragile Thing – Camille Ralphs’ After You Were, I Am ‘Easter Wings’ (Photocredit: johnfield1) After a chance remark about George Herbert, the librarian pulled a small volume from the shelf: leatherbound and plain, scruffy but serviceable.…

I’ve been reading Camille Ralphs’ exquisitely wrought, breathtakingly beautiful ‘After You Were, I Am’: johnfield.org/2025/02/21/c... @faberbooks.bsky.social #poetry #poems

Rooting through the shelves for poetry to punctuate a concert, I started rereading Bunyan’s ‘Divine Emblems’ (1724), and remembering my beloved great aunt, Monica.
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Norwich Cathedral A place of worship, a historic treasure, an iconic landmark

I was looking at some of Norwich Cathedral Library’s Early Modern items for research: cathedral.org.uk/learn/library/ If you have a reason to look, no harm in asking them.

Absurdly excited and moved to hold a copy of George Herbert's 'The Temple', printed in 1633. (The book beneath it is a 1611 Bible).

The Madrid Review

Hi everybody. We're a Madrid, Spain, based literary magazine. We publish in print and online. Right now Issue 2 is free to read and download from www.themadridreview.com
Writers, poets, readers, artists: follow us and we'll follow you. Nice to be here! #litmag #literature #writers #poets #poetry

YouTube video by The Poetry Society Young Critic Sylvie Jane Lewis reviews Helen Farish's The Penny Dropping

'Speaking to the ghost of love through the language of immediacy': @poetrysociety.bsky.social's Young Critic, Sylvie Jane Lewis, explores Helen Farish's The Penny Dropping: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jye...
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Talk poetry this weekend! — Katy Evans-Bush The annual TS Eliot Prize Shortlist Workshop starts tomorrow morning - and what a shortlist it is!

Last call for this weekend's workshop - having been prepping the handouts and finalising the poem choices, I can say I think it is going to be EPIC. Join us if you can, even just for one morning. This is POETRY.

YouTube video by T. S. Eliot Prize Young Critic Joe Wright reviews Hannah Copley’s ‘Lapwing’

Watch Joe Wright's review of @hannahcopley.bsky.social's TS Eliot Prize shortlisted 'Lapwing' www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bGV.... It is worth every minute of your time.
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Review | ‘Song is a strong thing’: On the T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist by Dominic Leonard - The London Magazine Dominic Leonard reviews three collections on the 2024 T. S. Eliot prize shortlist, by Rachel Mann, Hannah Copley and Raymond Antrobus.

‘To Mann the poem, like the body, is a site of transformative potential where language behaves in lateral and magical ways.’

dominicleonard.bsky.social on Eleanor Among the Saints by revrachelmann.bsky.social, for thelondonmagazine.bsky.social: thelondonmagazine.org/review-song-...

Do check out Priyanka Moorjani's enriching reading of Raymond Antrobus's TS Eliot Prize shortlisted 'Signs, Music' www.youtube.com/watch?v=f984... Her website is here: poetpri.com
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Review | ‘Song is a strong thing’: On the T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist by Dominic Leonard - The London Magazine Dominic Leonard reviews three collections on the 2024 T. S. Eliot prize shortlist, by Rachel Mann, Hannah Copley and Raymond Antrobus.

Criticism that's critical is worth reading. Enjoyed this from the excellent @dominicleonard.bsky.social - thelondonmagazine.org/review-song-...

A photo of John Field, teacher, writer and critic.

I’m a teacher, writer and critic. My blog, Poor Rude Lines, reviews contemporary poetry: johnfield.org I've reviewed the T.S. Eliot Prize short list on behalf of the T.S. Eliot Prize for 10 years. I've also written for the Forward Foundation and the Aldeburgh International Poetry Festival.

'Top Doll', @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social's T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed novel-in-verse – a bravura, polyphonic exploration of obsession, mortality and an unflinching look at the history of slavery in America. My review: tseliot.com/prize/the-t-...
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Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo | Book review | The TLS Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam is a series of impossible elegies. The poems respond to the recovery from the River Thames in 2001 of the torso of a Black boy,

@nemoloris.bsky.social finds Gboyega Odubanjo's Adam ‘bleakly brilliant’ in the TLS: www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
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'Rhizodont', Katrina Porteous' T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed fourth collection – a thrilling meeting of language and ideas, a blurring of the boundary between humanity and machine, between planet and technology. My review: tseliot.com/prize/the-t-....
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'Scattered Snows, to the North', Carl Phillips' T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed 17th collection – reflective but resisting the temptation to judge, or to exact retribution. My review: tseliot.com/prize/the-t-....
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People, we need to talk about the poet @roguestrands – in particular, his collection, 'The Knives of Villalejo' (titular poem here featured).

Matthew's writing is a beauty of brevity and brilliance. Imagery is as sharp as the knives of the title and each poem quietly captivates.

Mentoring with Julia Bird Our expert mentors are uniquely placed to help you master your craft. Julia is a poetry programmer eager to help you explore various routes to publication.

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'Adam', Gboyega Odubanjo's T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed and posthumously published collection – a monumental work which acknowledges the darkness but celebrates life's dignity and sanctity. My review: tseliot.com/prize/the-t-....
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'Eleanor Among the Saints', @revrachelmann.bsky.social's T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed second collection doesn't shy away from struggle, but it offers consolation too. My review for the T.S. Eliot Prize: tseliot.com/prize/the-t-....
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T. S. Eliot's empty desk, with the chair pulled slightly out as if he has just stood up to leave.

T. S. Eliot died on this day in 1965. This photograph showing his empty desk was taken at the Faber office on Russell Square the day after Eliot's death.

Black text reading 'the ground is forgiving even after the cold grips the air there is a thaw, the frost is clearing.' on a yellow background. An illustration of a plant pot and a trowel, with a plant beginning to grow.

A poem for the cold snap - Scarlett Timlett-Sheehan's 'recipe for ending winter' was a winning poem in the #FoyleYoungPoets of the Year Award 2022. Read the full poem at poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/recipe-for-ending-winter/

Illustration by Jane Burkowski.

'High Jump as Icarus Story', @gphibbett.bsky.social's T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed debut collection: dazzling and sobering, it pulses with life. My review for the T.S. Eliot Prize: tseliot.com/prize/the-t-....
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Screenshot of katyevansbush.com with workshop info

Nine days till my annual workshop on the whole TS Eliot Prize shortlist: 2 mornings, one huge poetry energy shot! We meet on Zoom; no need to have read any of the books, I take care of that bit. You just bring your own coffee & croissants.
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