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The T S Eliot Prize shortlist was announced on 22nd October, alongside details of the Shadowing Scheme and Reading Groups, based on the judges selections.
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The T S Eliot Prize Shadowing Scheme, comprising a student writing competition, poll and teachers' prize, is now open. Click here for more information.

Join the PBS today and claim your free hardback edition of Answering Back, edited by Carol Ann Duffy, (worth £12.99) plus two £10 book vouchers, as well as the latest edition of our quarterly magazine, the Bulletin.

The Poetry Book Society will be running a brand new reading group scheme relating to the ten poetry collections on the 2009 T S Eliot Prize shortlist. Click here for more information.

25 years since its inception, Poems on the Underground has published a new anthology collecting the very best of this public poetry programme.

Following the recent announcement by the BBC that T S Eliot has been voted the Nations Favourite Poet, Faber is to publish a special edition of his Selected Poems.
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Congratulations to Carol Ann Duffy, our new Poet Laureate. She has recently published her New and Collected Poems for Children, as well as To The Moon, an anthology of lunar poems.
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Congratulations to Don Paterson, whose Rain won this year's Forward Poetry Prize.
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