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T.S.Eliot Prize for Poetry was inaugurated in 1993 to celebrate the Poetry Book
Society's 40th birthday and honour its founding poet. The prize is awarded to
the best collection of new poetry published in the UK and Ireland in each year.
The £10,000 prize money is kindly donated by Eliot's widow, Mrs Valerie Eliot.
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The winner of the T S Eliot Prize 2006 is Seamus Heaney for District and Circle. Click here to find out more about the T S Eliot Prize. A list of previous winners is below - click on the book title for more information.
2005
Carol Ann Duffy
Rapture
2004
George Szirtes
Reel
2003
Don
Paterson
Landing Light
2002
Alice Oswald
Dart
2001
Anne Carson
The Beauty
of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
2000
Michael
Longley
The Weather
in Japan
1999
Hugo Williams
Billy's
Rain
1998
Ted Hughes
Birthday
Letters
1997
Don
Paterson
God's Gift
to Women
1996
Les
Murray
Subhuman Redneck Poems
1995
Mark
Doty
My Alexandria
1994
Paul
Muldoon
The Annals
of Chile
1993
Ciaran
Carson
First Language: Poems
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