The T. S. Eliot Prize
2008 Jen Hadfield Nigh-No-Place - Best Collection
2007 Sean O'brien The Drowned Book - Best Collection
2006 Seamus Heaney District And Circle - Best Collection
2005 Carol Ann Duffy Rapture - Best Collection
2004 George Szirtes Reel - Best Collection
2003 Don Paterson Landing Light - Best Collection
2002 Alice Oswald Dart - Best Collection
2001 Anne Carson The Beauty Of The Husband - Best Collection
2000 Michael Longley The Weather In Japan - Best Collection
The T.S. Eliot Prize is given in honour of Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965). He was an Anglo/American poet, playwright and critic and one of the major exponents of the Modernist poetry movement. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
The prize is bestowed on a poet who has produced a full collection of poetry.
Previous winners have included established poets and exciting new voices.
Further information can be found here.