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Notes
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'The T S Eliot Prize for Poetry was inaugurated in 1993 to celebrate the Poetry Book Society's 40th birthday and honour its founding poet... The winner receives £15,000 and each of the shortlisted poets receives £1,000... The four Poetry Book Society Choices ... are automatically shortlisted for the Prize'.
Source: Poetry Book Society website, http://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/
Sighted: 05/01/2012
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 1997
winner y
Subhuman Redneck Poems
Potts Point
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Duffy and Snellgrove
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1996
Z175001
1996
selected work
poetry
(taught in 1 units)
'In this collection of poems, farmers, fathers, poverty-stricken pioneers, and people blackened by the grist of the sugar mills are exposed to the blazing midday sun of Murray's linguistic powers. Richly inventive, tenderly perceptive, and fiercely honest, these poems surprise and bare the human in all of us.' (Publication summary)
Works About this Award
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Biting the Hand That Feeds You Isn't Clever - Even if You Are an Award-Winning Poet 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Independent , 10 December 2011; (p. 40, 41) David Lister writes in the wake of Alice Oswald and John Kinsella's decisions to withdraw from the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist. Lister offers the view that 'the arts are, and have to be, a mixed economy, more than ever in the current climate' and that 'they rely on sponsorship'. -
The TS Eliot Prize Is No Less Honourable for Its Sponsorship 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian , 14 December 2011; Welsh poet and T. S. Eliot Prize judge Gillian Clarke writes in the wake of Alice Oswald and John Kinsella's decisions to withdraw from the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist. Clarke offers the view that 'prizes are a society's way to thank poets for the words they write' and that prizemoney should be approached with the attitude 'take if from the rich, give it to a poet and reader'. -
Second Poet Pulls Out of TS Eliot Prize 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian , 8 December 2011; (p. 19) Alison Flood reports on John Kinsella's withdrawal from the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize following his shortlisting for the award. Kinsella told the Guardian newspaper that 'I regret that I must do this at a particularly difficult time for the Poetry Book Society but the business of Aurum [the prize's sponsor] does not sit with my personal politics and ethics'. -
Stay in Touch With : The Poet Who Hates Capitalism 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 December 2011; (p. 22) 'The Australian poet John Kinsella, who withdrew from Britain's T. S. Eliot prize last week over its sponsorship by an investment firm, Aurum Fund Management, has now laid out his own poetic manifesto in the leftie mag the New Statesman, The Guardian reports.' -
Murray's Made Living Easy 1997 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 18 November 1997; (p. 31)
