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Extract: Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
Poems from the TS Eliot prize-shortlisted collection Human ChainSeamus Heaney was born in 1939 in County Derry, Northern Ireland. His first collection, Death of a Naturalist (Faber) was published in...
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New Light for the Old Dark by Sam Willetts
Poems from the TS Eliot prize-shortlisted collection New Light for Old DarkSam Willetts read English at Wadham College, and worked as a teacher, journalist and travel writer but became addicted to...
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TS Eliot prize goes to Derek Walcott for 'moving and technically flawless' work
Success for Nobel laureate after withdrawing from Oxford professor election following sex harassment claims in 2009Read a selection of poems from White Egrets hereIn a "bumper year" for...
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The announcement that Bob Dylan has signed a six-book deal, and that Yoko Ono is close to signing John Lennon's letters over for publication inspired us to devote much of this week's podcast to the...
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Saturday poem: In the Village by Derek Walcott
by Derek Walcott, winner of the 2011 TS Eliot prizeIIEverybody in New York is in a sitcom.I'm in a Latin American novel, onein which an egret-haired viejo shakes with someinvisible sorrow, some obscene...
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Joined to Seamus Heaney's Human Chain
The winning essay from this year's TS Eliot prize for poetry Shadowing SchemeMadeleine Chalmers of The Abbey School, Reading is the winner of this year's TS Eliot prize for poetry Shadowing Scheme. The...
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TS Eliot prize 2011 shortlist revealed
Carol Ann Duffy pitted against Sean O'Brien, Alice Oswald and John Burnside for 'prize most poets want to win'A showdown between some of poetry's biggest names will see poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy...
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Alice Oswald withdraws from TS Eliot prize in protest at sponsor Aurum
The poet, shortlisted for much-praised collection Memorial, objects to investment company's focus on hedge fundsAward-winning poet Alice Oswald has pulled out of prestigious poetry award the TS Eliot...
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TS Eliot prize: Second poet withdraws in sponsor protest
John Kinsella joins Alice Oswald in pulling out of shortlist to oppose award's funding by investment firm AurumTS Eliot himself worked for Lloyds Bank, but John Kinsella has now become the second poet...
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Can writers afford to worry about prize sponsors?
Alice Oswald's withdrawal from the TS Eliot prize has alarming implications for ethically-minded peersAlice Oswald was seen as a strong contender for the TS Eliot prize, so her withdrawal from the...
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Alice Oswald: Why I pulled out of the TS Eliot poetry prize
Poetry represents the faint, honest voice in us all. So should it be funded by opaque hedge funds?In March of this year, the Arts Council withdrew funding from the Poetry Book Society. A campaign was...
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The TS Eliot prize cannot survive without sponsorship at a time of cuts |...
The Poetry Book Society asked hard questions of Aurum, but most poets earn little from writing and prizes are vitalOn the right-hand side of my desk are eight volumes of poetry, the shortened shortlist...
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John Kinsella writes of poetry's 'responsibility to bring change'
Poet who withdrew from TS Eliot prize in protest at sponsor says artform 'should channel disobedience'"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world," wrote Shelley in 1821. Now poet John...
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John Burnside wins most controversial TS Eliot prize in decades
Scottish poet's Black Cat Bone beats strong shortlist in contest mired in protest over City fundingThe Scottish poet John Burnside has won the most controversial TS Eliot poetry prize in years, for a...
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John Burnside has won this year's TS Eliot Prize for poetry for his latest collection, Black Cat Bone, having won the Forward prize, where we interviewed him about the collection. On Sunday. he joined...
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TS Eliot prize for poetry announces 'fresh, bold' shortlist
Newcomer Sean Borodale joins major names including Sharon Olds and Kathleen Jamie and Simon ArmitageA "fresh, bold" shortlist for the TS Eliot prize for poetry pits Sean Borodale's first collection...
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Valerie Eliot obituary
Widow of TS Eliot who became a sterling and inspirational guardian of his workThe passion that Valerie Eliot, who has died aged 86, had for the work of her future husband, TS Eliot, began when she was...
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Valerie Eliot's death deprives poetry of its strongest advocate
She was a vital link to modernism, both through her marriage to TS Eliot and her own intelligence, charm and love of the formMy favourite picture of Valerie Eliot is one in which she sits to the left...
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Sharon Olds: 'I want a poem to be useful'
The celebrated American poet on her abusive childhood, the end of her marriage and writing about painSharon Olds has the wrong surname. At 70, you can see the young woman in Olds – in the sweep of her...
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Valerie Eliot remembered
TS Eliot's widow was no writer herself, but her experience and stories alone establish her literary importanceShe would occasionally come by my Bloomsbury premises after a bibulous Italian lunch with...
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