The 2009 T S Eliot Prize has been awarded to Philip Gross' The Water Table (click here to buy now) , published by Bloodaxe. Chair of judges Simon Armitage called it "a book of great clarity and concentration".

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The T S Eliot Prize Shadowing Scheme winners have been announced. Click here to find out more and read their work.

The Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlets 2010 submissions are now open.

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We are delighted to be able to offer a recording of the T S Eliot Prize shortlisted poets reading from their work.

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The Poetry Trust is seeking applications and nominations for the Aldeburgh Seminar. It offers professional and creative development to poets early in their publishing careers.
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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.

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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Don Paterson has been awarded the Queen's Medal for Poetry 2009.

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