T.S. Eliot Shortlist announced!

The following poets and collections have been shortlisted by judges Simon Armitage, Colette Bryce and Penelope Shuttle for the prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize 2009:

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin The Sun Fish Gallery
Fred D’Aguiar Continental Shelf Carcanet
Jane Draycott Over Carcanet
Philip Gross The Water Table Bloodaxe
Sinéad Morrissey Through the Square Window Carcanet
Sharon Olds One Secret Thing  Cape
Alice Oswald Weeds & Wild Flowers Faber
Christopher Reid A Scattering  Areté
George Szirtes The Burning of the Books and Other Poems  Bloodaxe
Hugo Williams West End Final  Faber

At next month’s Poetry Room from 6.15pm-8pm on Tuesday 3 November at Blackwell’s bookshop, Newcastle, we will be looking at sample poems (as many as physically possible!) from the poets on this list.  For free downloads of the sample poems, please go to:

www.poetrybookshoponline.com/tsereadinggrouppoems.php

We will also be bringing print-outs of the poems along with us.

There’s something to suit all tastes, so enjoy! And looking forward to seeing you (new-comers as well as familiar faces as ever very welcome!) in November.

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