The T S Eliot School Shadowing Scheme 2007

Using the downloads, A-Level students are invited to enter our competition to write a 500-word rationale justifying their choice of winning poetry collection for the 2007 T S Eliot Prize. The winning student will receive:

The T S Eliot Prize Shadowing Scheme, which has been newly inaugurated for the 2006 T S Eliot Prize, is being run in partnership by the Poetry Book Society (who run the T S Eliot Prize) and the English and Media Centre. It aims to get young people more engaged with contemporary poetry.

• Tickets to the 2007 T S Eliot Prize Readings and an invitation to the award ceremony in January

• Signed copies of the winning book and the student’s choice of winning book

• The opportunity to meet the T S Eliot Prize-winner

• A year’s subscription to emagazine (which will also publish the winning rationale)

• A year’s PBS membership

Copies of all the shortlisted titles can also be ordered through this website, and you can click here to find out more about joining the PBS as an Education member. The deadline for submitting competition entries is 10th December. The winner of the competition will be announced at the award ceremony in London on 14th January 2008.

English and Media Centre are also running an online poll. Click here to vote.

Copies of the selected poems are available in downloadable in PDF format by clicking the links below. To open these files you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have Adobe Reader, click on the link below to download it for free from the Adobe website.

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