Congratulations Philip Gross!
Well done Philip Gross, who won the TS Eliot prize yesterday.
We’re especially pleased and proud because Philip was kind enough to take part in this interview for edition 5 of Pomegranate, with Isobel Norris and Katie Allen, last year. We’re a bit starstruck, really, especially as previous TS Eliot prizewinner Jen Hadfield has also graced the pages of Pom with this article in edition 9.
With a prize of £15,000 for the winner, the TS Eliot is the UK’s most lucrative poetry prize. Keep reading Pomegranate to try and spot next year’s winner!
Here’s the shortlist – all of the books are well worth checking out:
- The Sun-fish by Eiléan Ní Chuilleánain
- Continental Shelf by Fred D’Aguiar
- Over by Jane Draycott
- The Water Table by Philip Gross
- Through the Square Window by Sinéad Morrissey
- One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds
- Weeds & Wild Flowers by Alice Oswald
- A Scattering by Christopher Reid
- The Burning of the Books and Other Poems by George Szirtes
- West End Final by Hugo Williams