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Thanks to the generosity of Mrs Valerie Eliot, the T S Eliot Prize 2007 cash award has been increased from £10,000 to £15,000. In a move which will be widely welcomed, each of the 10 shortlisted poets will also receive £1000.

The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony at the Wallace Collection on Monday 14th January 2008.

On Sunday 13 January 2008, the 10 poets will be reading from their shortlisted collections at a special event at the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre. To buy tickets for the Shortlist Readings, call the UCL Bloomsbury box office on 020 7388 8822 or visit
www.thebloomsbury.com

The T S Eliot Prize 2007 Shortlist has now been announced, and copies of all 10 shortlisted titles are available to buy from the PBO (PBS members should log in now to use their discount). Simply click on the links below:

Ian Duhig, The Speed of Dark (Picador)

Alan Gillis, Hawks and Doves (Gallery)

Sophie Hannah, Pessimism for Beginners (Carcanet)

Mimi Khalvati, The Meanest Flower (Carcanet)

Frances Leviston, Public Dream (Picador)

Sarah Maguire, The Pomegranates of Kandahar (Chatto)

Edwin Morgan, A Book of Lives (Carcanet)

Sean O'Brien, The Drowned Book (Picador)

Fiona Sampson, Common Prayer (Carcanet)

Matthew Sweeney, Black Moon (Jonathan Cape)

Click here for details of the T S Eliot Prize 2007 Shadowing Scheme

District and Circle

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Winner of the T S Eliot Prize 2006

Seamus Heaney's momentous twelfth collection was described by the judges of the 2006 T S Eliot Prize as "a commanding, exhilarating work." The T S Eliot Prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best new collection of poetry published in the UK or Ireland. Click here for more information on the T S Eliot Prize or click here to see more prize-winning poetry collections.

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Welcome to Poetry Bookshop Online - the home of poetry on the internet. From Beowulf to Birthday Letters - Poetry Bookshop Online is, quite simply, the best place to buy poetry. Why trek to the shops when all the poetry books currently in print in the UK are just a mouse click away?

T S Eliot Prize 2007

The winner of the T S Eliot Prize 2006 is Seamus Heaney for District and Circle. Click here for more information.

The winner of the T S Eliot Prize 2005 was
Carol Ann Duffy, for Rapture.

The PBS is the sole online distributor of the Poetry Archive CDs, a unique collection of contemporary poets performing their own work. Click here for more information.

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